Going out on the streets here is always an adventure. The fashion in London is quite extreme. There are the dapper businessmen in the business district but the young people fashion trends are quite ummm… strange. We like to joke that it looks like kindergartners with no supervision who dress themselves. The further into ‘young [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Double Standard
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Snapshot
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
London has a plethora of museums. On everything. There is a transportation museum, WWI museum, natural history museum etc etc etc. I don’t usually just pop by one of them on a Tuesday. It just seems like a pretentious thing to do: “Oh, dear I hope you had a good day at work, I wondered [...]
A New Calling.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I love our kitchen table. When the movers were unpacking our things when we first moved to London, the table was the first thing out of the truck and the head mover came up to me and said, “that table isn’t going to fit through the door.” I simply looked at him and said, “oh, [...]
Word Play
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
London is an interesting place. Right now the economy isn’t doing so hot, but neither is anyone else’s economy. Everyday the paper is touting the latest cuts and layoffs. There are books on making money in a recession and how to live on less and the sales on the high streets get better every day. [...]
Cameras and Curry
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In anticipation of doing some travel this year, Mike and I decided to take advantage of the after Christmas sales and purchase a new camera! As with any new toy, as soon as we got home and got the battery charged, we were constantly playing with it. We also had plans to have dinner with [...]
From the Corner
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »
When I was little and I did something bad, I would put myself in timeout in the corner. I don’t know why. So today I am writing you from the corner, because I have been oh so very bad. The whole time I was doing it I kept saying to myself, my mother would DIE [...]
Happy Birthday, Spider Monkey!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There are things that I do that I look back and think, “wow, that was awesome but sooo embarrassing that I probably shouldn’t tell anyone else- they won’t understand.” I have that feeling very strongly right now but I am going to go against my better judgement and tell you about my birthday. Because it [...]
Recap.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We’ve been gone from Texas for a week now and I still haven’t posted much about it. I have started to a hundred times and I stop. I am having a problem that I have never had before: I have no words. When I think over the three weeks that we spent at home starting [...]
Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We are home from our wonderful Christmas vacation! The pups are home with us and everything is great! Leaving wasn’t horrible but saying goodbye was. I will begin putting up details and get going again on London life this week but for now let’s play a game about how well you know Mike and Andrea.It’ll [...]
