3500 Miles from Normal

England is trying to kill me.

2011-02-22T16:25:00.000Z

I keep complaining that I don't write anymore. I don't even read much either, which is even more worrying. But instead of doing the logical thing, like getting off the computer and picking up a book or even posting here I just continue on internetting like a crazy person.

But thanks to my internetting I found a comic that is clearly all about me. Click here, and Laugh!

So here I am taking a small step towards writing more by actually writing. I know, we're all very proud of me.

So what is going on in the land of Jen... Well John got sick with man flu (Or a cold, whatever) and has kindly passed it on to me. And It's slowly trying to kill me. I don't know if it's my Weak american immune system or the fact that my body hates that I quit smoking again (Oh, Mom, I quit smoking again.) but I currently give myself like 2 hours until I'm dead.

I've been alternating laying in bed whining about how I'm going to die and laying on the couch whining about how I'm going to die. I forsee no other outcome but my death, to be honest. My throat is swollen (No spots, I checked. Thought that would be difficult to do with no Mother, but turns out Blackberries have flashes with their camera and it works just as well. Although less sympathy...damn.) and I sound like Jabba the hutt. Or something like that. I don't know, my brain is currently being suffocated so its not working all that great.

I fear the only thing that is going to make me feel better is a pony. So lets all pool our money together and chip in to get Jen one before she dies... None of you are reaching for your wallets, are you? Harsh. I'm hurt by that.

ANYWAY.

We're working on my Resume at the moment. And by We I mean "John was bored at work so decided to do it." which is awesome for me. I've eaten a bowl of cereal and am about to go lay on the couch and whine some more about the death that should be happening just in time for dinner!

I miss you guys, and someone please stop Hope from getting cornrows. I mean honestly, it's like she thinks she is black or something.. Sad face.

OH. Dad, I got your letter. I will be filling it out and sending it back very soon. And by very soon I mean as soon as I am no longer dying. So hopefully next week I'll put it in the mail :D
And no, I don't want you to save us any snow, but I do appreciate the offer. Kinda. But not really.

Not dead, I promise.

2010-08-28T05:40:00.000+01:00

See, even John agrees that all is well here. Miss you guys <3

Because things just never go according to plan...

2010-05-15T08:34:00.000+01:00

Do they?
Probably not. Anywho, two days ago John and I were getting ready to head out to the magical land of Job recruitment places so yours truly could become employed and stop sitting around playing the sims. Granted I happen to like the sims, I like being able to bake a lot more!
So we're getting ready and John's showering and I'm sitting around being bored waiting when there is a knock on the door. Which confused me, but I figured answering it was a good start.

Yup. Some old lady from downstairs was there asking if our bathroom was flooded. Told her no, told John about it, resumed doing nothing. She came back, to double check. We ended up taking the wood panel that is in front of the tub out and low and behold! A leak! Horrah!

Should probably mention that the other day John opened the cupboard carefully (Dishes were stacked up drying in front of it) And the whole cabinet door fell off in his hand! Oh how I chuckled, but not really.

So now we have a busted cabinet, leaking bath and mold growning all over.

We called the Estate agents to inform them we need a plumber and they said "We don't manage the estate, we just rent it." Uhm...whuuuut?

So John wrote an epic email to the lady in Japan informing her of the shower, Cabinet, Counters and the time when he didn't have hot water for three weeks which means he had no heating and still had to pay rent even though he didn't live here.

Awesome eh?

Yeah, John managed to fix the tub leak with a screw driver. Cabinet and counters aren't that big of a deal. Although she did say that the people from before were supposed to leave behind oil to wipe them down with and we were supposed to be informed on how to do that.

Yeah, that didn't happen.

So another disaster was adverted, and now we can resume our normal programming of being poor and lazy! Horrah!

I have an oven!

2010-05-07T13:12:00.000+01:00

And I've been baking! Nothing else much to report. John hates his job and is going to start looking for a new one, I have yet to hear back from paperchase on my interview because the lady went on vacation, and John had a serious ear infection but it's all better now.

But here, since my life is dull and mundane, let me show you some pictures!

Sarah, My new Paperchase friends and myself went to brunch and then the movies. It was great fun with a stop at some arcade place that had bumpercars!

Yes, Sarah and I look like crazy people.

I took a spa weekend in Windsor with the ladies, and we got all glammed up to eat out that night. Because we're super awesome.

We then asked to have our picture taken with the guard outside Windsor castle, and they said yes! Heck yeah massive gun!

Inside the crooked tea house, which was very crooked! And adorable!

I had a wicked awesome time in Windsor and I made new friends! Rock on friends!

Then I went to the shop some time later... and found these delights.

Delicious they were not.

Poor John being sick :(

We had a crazy 5 minute storm that beat the poop out of the pretty pink tree.

Sadly I only made 12 of them, and they're all gone :(
So thats whats been going on in the land of Jen. Nothing exciting, but kinda exciting.

Yup.

I wanna come home

2010-04-03T14:37:00.000+01:00

The English, bless them, don't do Easter baskets. They do rather large chocolate eggs with candy in them.

How is it Easter if there is not a basket full of plastic grass that you have to clean up for the next 8 months and Jelly beans that you pick at for the next 4 even if they are flavors you don't like. And what about chocolate bunnies? where are the chocolate bunnies?

Something is wrong with this country. Someone send me an Easter basket please, I need to educate the masses.

I might have a job...

2010-03-29T19:28:00.001+01:00

Hello Americans!
Been busy thinking about working on my resume until the genius inside of my head reminded me that my latest resume had been sent to my big sister for editing. And because I don't delete emails the way I don't throw away lawn gnomes, I still had it! So instead of working on something for hours, perfecting it, editing and making sure it was up to scratch- I changed my name and contact information and was done.

HA! Take that world!

Sarah has so kindly found me an opening at Paper Chase, the company that does all the cute notebooks, book marks and cards at Borders. Her friends, and my new friends, are going to send my resume to the top and after that it's just fingers crossed and a bit of praying (For those of you who pray, that is. Not my Jewish family, though.)

If that does not pan out, the next time John has a day off we'll be looking for Temp. Agencies to send my CV to and then it's off on a parade of interviews hoping to find something that will allow us to save up (House? I want one Plz.) and perhaps buy me more books. (Yay books!)
So that about covers it. Other than that, nothing new.

OH YES THERE IS I TOTALLY LIED.

In about 2 weeks time we will have a brand new oven. I hope you can feel my joy from here, because I am rather joyful. I'm going to miss you guys on Easter, but I'll make sure to let you know if Jesus decides to not come out of his cave. (Since we're in the future. Ha!)
Someone have a slice of carrot cake for me and then remind Mom that I actually don't like carrot cake, but the design was pretty.

The end!

Update! I know! SHOCKING.

2010-03-26T17:46:00.000Z

So first it was computer problems and then it was "Jen is really lazy" Problems.

So I apologize..for being so lazy. I have pictures. I'm editing them now and trying to figure out the fastest way to get them on here with out losing my mind. This alone, should be interesting.

Look! Pretty flowers when I stand outside and look directly down! YAY DAFFODILS.

Lunchbox of the future, it would seem. At least their museums here think so. Blech.

Oh joy! Poo in a bag as a party favor! Thanks guys!
Oh right, you wanted to see the couches.. well EXCUSE ME for lightening things up with some poo jokes... Onto the pics. Sorry we're not very clean people. And by We, I mean Me. Mah Bad.

Look mom! I'm growing things! And I PROMISE they ARE NOT drugs. Right? Right.

I can hear you laughing from here, about how I own yet another piece of exercise equipment I won't use. JOKES ON YOU, IT MAKES A GREAT DRYING RACK SO HA.

OH HAY I IRONED.

Greetings- I promise we're not dead

2010-03-11T10:50:00.000Z

We've had a bit of a rough patch involving the computer, schedules and even illness. Computer had to be completely re-hauled, a guy came out and put a new motherboard in but it still wasn't working properly. John ended up uninstalling everything from it, including windows 7, and putting it all back on. So far so good, I say.

We've been busy, and by we I mean he's gone back to work for the most part, which leaves me to play the sims and watch greys anatomy while cooking various things. Speaking of cooking, we still don't have an oven. They came to fix it Tuesday, but the part the company ordered was the wrong one. So much for making lasagne, eh?

And as for Illnesses, the ear infection I have been moaning and whining about for months has finally driven me to the point of going to the doctors. Which is awesome, because they took a swab of the inside of my ear and sent it for lab work, which in America would be instantly 300 dollars, plus the 200 of the doctor standing in the room.

hahah, it was freeeeeeee. All of it was freeeeeee. And then my perscription was 7.50£ but in American that would be 15 bucks. Rock on UK, rock on. So I don't have an ear infection persay, I have eczema in my ears. Isn't that fantastic? :(
So they gave me ear drops that make me cry when you put them in my left ear. And in a few days I have to call the office to make sure there aren't any bugs in my ear (Insert ewwww and WTF face here.)

But all in all we're ok. Our couches came, they're lovely. We bought super cheap ikea coffee table/endtables and they look awesome actually. My cupcake kitchen is fantastical (Minus the oven, but we don't like to talk about that.) and now we're just waiting on my NI number, which is like the UK's version of a social security number, and then I have to look for a job because we're actually rather poor! Ha!

On the 19th I'm heading to Windsor, not that I know where that is, for a spa weekend with Sarah and some of her friends from work. It should be a fantastically awesome time, and John insists I go, although I am a bit apprehensive seeing as I will know Sarah and no one else. But on the other hand, it's been years since I've had a real massage. So I do deserve it, for being so gosh darn awesome. Yes.

Sounds like John is done making breakfast, so I'm going to close this and go eat some eggs and toast. Hope all is well on that side of the world, miss you all etc etc more sappy crap here.
Maybe I'll log back in and post some pictures of stuff. Dunno what, but I'm sure I can find some. Heh. BYE!

Sorry..I fail

2010-02-25T22:06:00.000Z

Sorry about the lack of updates, everyone. Our brand new shiney computer came with a faulty harddrive and so...it died. We got a new harddrive (Freeee) but I've spent 2 hours on the phone today arguing with some guy who didn't know what he was doing.

So hopefully in the next day or so It'll be working perfectly again and I'll resume being less angry and more writey :p

I'm not dead, although I feel tired as heck. Haven't been sleeping very well lately and I have no idea why. My guess is it's 90 degrees in this room when I go to bed. But, I do need to head to bed. Or at least try to pretend to get some sleep. Proper update will happen tomorrow- I just wanted to let everyone know I'm not dead.

Monday, Tuesday and today...

2010-02-17T12:57:00.000Z

I'm never really sure what day it is any more even though we have a calendar. Monday, it was a nice day about 40 degrees and we opted to spend the day inside. John played video games and I played the sims all day. Which was enjoyable, I admit. Yesterday, Tuesday, was apparently pancake day. Which turns out to mean crepe day, which baffled me but all the same, I ate pancakes for dinner.

We went to Ealing Broadway, to return some things and get a few more things. Took 2 hours but the weather was miserable. Rained all day long, even if it was only chilly outside. Then again, I'd take the rain over the snow any day.

We came home and somehow John managed an invite to his Parent's house for pancake day, so Paul came to pick us up. They were crepes, which I did not know, but did enjoy. Sat around watching TV and talking for a while before heading home armed with a giant bag full of books for me to read.

So I think you know where this is going...

John went to bed around ten and I, being the crazy person I am, stayed up until four curled up on our very uncomfortable couch reading. I finally dragged myself to bed when the words started to blur on the page.
Then this morning John woke me up by not only opening the curtains but tapping me. As much as I would have liked to roll over and go back to sleep, I got up. We were supposed to go to a museum today, but we opted instead to stay indoors. We'll probably go out tonight to do something, although I couldn't possibly tell you what.

Tomorrow we're off to John's Grandma's house which is about 2-3 hours away by train. Which means more reading for Jen! Must remember to take the wedding pictures and also the few I have stored on facebook.

And now, that I have done an update, I'm going to resume laying down and reading my book.
Oh Ps. I'm generally always on Skype, I have it set up to sign in when the computer turns on. So if you shoot me a message and I'm around I'll hear it and you can marvel at how awesome I am.
Yes.

Alright, thats it for now. John's calling because he beat something in the game. Enjoy Peeps.

A lazy day

2010-02-15T13:24:00.001Z

The last few days have just been full of laughter and I have decided that my husband is the funniest man I have ever met. Despite his odd ways he makes me laugh from morning right through the day and I just never know what he's going to say next. If you don't know him very well he may seem quiet and reserved but let me tell you readers, John is a living legend. I have also discovered he can cook too! This was very surprising I must say but a very welcome addition to an already fantastic husband. Last night he cooked a five course feast and I was so over come with emotion it literally reduced me to tears of joy, my pallet was in awe of his flavour and texture combinations.

Edit: John's speciality is toast. Don't believe his lies!

But then he has learned it from me, I must have teached him real good.

Edit: That sentence pains me in ways that I can compare to being shot in the knee, hit by a truck and quite possibly going into labor on a crowded bus.

In other news we went shopping yesterday in Westfields, a huge Mall full of expensive shops and we managed to buy a few things of tea and an instant pink lemonade and that was it. We were proud of ourselves and so stopped at a small Italian Restaurant just outside the mall. Let me tell you this was a huge let down, the bread was doughy, the meat was too spicy, the shrimp was too fishy and so on..On the up side the wine was nice so we demolished that.

We still have no oven! The guy came on 2nd Feb and said he'd be back in a few days with the part needed but so far no return. John has called them twice now in the last few days but we've been told they are themselves waiting for the part to come in. I can make food without it, I've been doing an awesome job of it if I do say so myself. (John thinks so too!)

John's folks came to see us last night, his father talked for a good 2 hours almost without stopping but he's been away working for a month so he had a lot to say. They both like what I have managed to do with the place which is a hell of a lot more than John managed to do and I do love it now that the bed has arrived! A Romanian man built the bed in 10 minutes and left. So efficient these Romanians. (Pictures to be included very soon!)

We're having a lazy day today because we deserve it, to my family a friends, I miss you all but it still hasn't sunk in properly yet. Oh look! John is doing something funny again, what a funny funny man!

Note: This blog Entry was written by John and only some of the views are mutual in regards to Jen's thoughts. The Bolded text is nothing more than John being an idiot.

Photos of the apartment

2010-02-10T11:09:00.000Z

While John is sorting out his weights and moving heavy things, I figured I'd throw up the pictures I took this morning of the apartment, they're on Facebook, but for people who don't have facebook or don't want to scroll through my dozens of pictures of cake I'll put them here. (You're welcome Mom!)

This is our Street, I think it looks like Veronaville from The Sims 2, which pleases me greatly! Apparently it looks much better when the trees are not bare, but I have yet to witness this.

You can click on the picture, Mom, for a bigger one.

This is a picture of our living room, the side where the door is. The couch and chair are going, we're just waiting for our sofas to get here, which hopefully will be in a few weeks.

This is the wall with the nook where we have stored our only bookshelf, the TV and computer table are going as well as the wickedly hideous chair.

Our table and TV, the other side of the room, across from the multi coloured couch. The table pulls out on both sides to seat more people, but we have no space for it.

The windows that I adore, leading out to my balcony that lets me laugh at the people below using their hands to brush off their half a centimetre of snow. Wimps!

Hallway and our front door. Look at the magical way we have to dry our socks!

First door leads to the bathtub area with the sink, second leads to the magical closet with a toilet in it.

Spare room, with our rack for drying clothes. (This is why I have to iron :(

the wardrobe where all my clothes are, in the spare room, because John has more clothes than anyone I know. It's insane.

Shower/sink/Stuffs

Magical Toilet area.

I made a collage of Pictures on the back of the toilet door, because I'm an odd person.

Kitchen, with the sink and the wood counters that I now hate because they're growing mold :(

My stove that doesn't work, the burners do, but the stove does not. Please note the pretty towels!

My super awesome cupcake calendar.

Our room, the wall on the left that you can't see is all closet/wardrobe things.

So that's our place, its a bit messy at the moment, but we figure in a month or so we'll have it all sorted and looking nice. (We hope.) So thus concludes this entry and I'll post again tomorrow or the next day. I have a pot of coffee with my name on it. Toodles!

Monday and Tuesday

2010-02-10T00:21:00.000Z

Alright, alright, I know- I haven't updated and I am a complete failure at this whole blogging thing. I have about 15 minutes to get this out before the massive sleeping pill I took addles my brain.

Monday, John had to work, and instead of the half days he had managed to get on Saturday and Sunday, he was actually gone all day. Which left me to my own devices for about 14 hours. Now, After the first two weeks of struggling with the time change, I've managed to (And you're going to love this, Mom.) make myself wake up at 8am every morning, regardless of what time I went to bed. I know, it's astounding. I myself, can not believe it.

So I woke up at 8 and did a few dishes, made some breakfast at 2pm (I may be up at 8 but I still behave as if I've woken up at noon) and then settled in to play some PS3, which is lovely. And by lovely, I mean I get to stab people for a few hours. It's a dream come true!

John eventually came home, with every intention of cleaning/dishes/laundry but I told him he could play PS3... so nothing got done. Then we went to sleep at 11 and woke up the next day at (GASP) 9 am. I got to sleep in a whole hour!

Today we literally spent 6.5 hours cleaning up the apartment, and get this, only managed to get the kitchen and living room done. Ha! We are masters at creating mess! The water heater crapped out on us, overheated and shut off. So we gave up on dishes and moved to the living room. I have managed to fit all of our books on this tiny bookshelf, and dragged the heavy table he bought to the other side of the room. We've been very productive.

Then we headed to his Mom's for dinner and (his) haircut. Stayed a few hours and now we are home. After dragging twelve (I'm not exaggerating, either) bags of garbage downstairs and (again, not exaggerating) 4 containers of cardboard/bottles/plastic John took a sleeping pill, and is now playing PS3, while I, obviously am updating this blog.

Tomorrow we're planning on getting all my crap off the spare room's bed and figuring out where all my tiaras and things are going to go, then the rest of the dishes, and the bedroom and then get this, I'm going to iron. Do you know the last time I ironed something? Yea, me neither. Should be interesting. Perhaps tomorrow I'll wander around the apartment taking pictures to post here so you can all marvel at how CLEAN this place is. heh.

So there, a real update, that tells you more about whats happened and less about drunk men on buses. I'm sure there will be more tales of random drunk people, eventually, but for now I've been staying close to home. Right, so enough for now, promise will update tomorrow.

OH EDIT: Guess what I did? In a genius move of trying to open up one of those wrappers that's like 3 inches of plastic and you need a blowtorch to get it off? I sliced open my hand bad enough that I actually thought I might have to get stitches. (Read: The fat was coming out if I squeezed it ewww) but the bleeding stopped, but because its right on the big of my hand below the third knuckle (closest to palm) it moves and re-opens everytime I try to use my hand. So my guess is, it's going to heal and I'm going to have a lovely little valley of suffering on my hand for very tiny people to play in.

ps. Clearly the drugs have kicked in (Scroll up, I mean sleeping pills, not crack.) and I should stop typing now, before I blather on about midgets and freckles and other wonderful things like dancing unicorns (CANDY MOUNTAIN CHARLIE!) Yes, thats all. TOODLES.

Longish update

2010-02-07T17:53:00.000Z

John went back to working which kind of gave me time to wander around, and by wander around I mean go to the grocery store and meet Sarah at the mall. We haven't really been doing much, seeing as his shifts are 12 hours, and then the time to travel to and from work, he's gone most of the day. So that leaves me to cook, maybe even do some cleaning and play on ze internets.

We bought a tv, and the Ps3 I've promised him, which means the last few days nothing has really gotten done. He's cleaning right now, and I don't have to seeing as I did it all day while he was at work.

I'll try to make an effort to update daily or at least try to write things down so I can remember what the heck happened.

OH I KNOW. I was on the bus, during my very adventure to ASDA I was on the bus home and some guy, who was very drunk, got on and was all "WHO WANTS SEX?!" and I blinked, looked back at my book thinking, Don't make eye contact you do not need to be harassed, a lonely american stuck on a bus with a drunk guy.

AND THEN he was stalking smack to a few women/girls and one of them, just as the bus stopped and the doors opened, punched him in the face causing him to fall to the ground below.

It took everything I had not to bust out laughing at him. Oh. London. How I love thee.

A few days after the third day! - By John

2010-02-02T20:49:00.000Z

This last week has flown by so quickly, Jen and I have been all over the place looking at furniture and bits and pieces for the apartment. It's been tiring but so much fun! In a couple of weeks we'll have some couches to sit on which will then make the livingroom more liveable, at the moment we have dining chairs and a very old couch that used to live in my room back at my parent's house, it's wooden frame is exposed and the cushions are lumpy and flat now so we've not really spent much time in there.

We set up a desk in our bedroom, one we bought from Ikea, it's white and fits nicely in to the bay window. Apparently we are professionals at building furniture because while we weren't all that quick, everything got done correctly and without one single argument, we make a good team and everything is fun. Once it was built we unpacked the new computer which had been delivered two days previously but stayed in it's box, we knew if we even started messing with it we'd never get anything done. The apartment was littered with seven suitcases worth of clothing and items, from room to room and strewn throughout the hallway. There was stuff and chaos everywhere so we made sure we cleaned up first and did what needed to be done, how adult of us! Kinda!

We splashed out on an Alienware computer, the cheapest one we could get so that Jen could play the Sims on it as it was meant to be played and so that we could use it for other things too without overloading it. Can I just say, this was an awesome decision on our part, it works like perfectly like a PC should and it was definitely worth the little extra we paid for it, in this case definitely believe the hype. Only down side is it's fairly big (And this model is marketed as a small one..) so we're not sure where it's going to live perminantly yet. But Jen is happy because the Sims runs nicely and I am happy that Jen is happy and that it's so good, it's a relief.

Paul, Sarah and my mum came over and Jen prepared a 'help yourself' taco night which was good fun. We played some Wii and ate good food, it was nice and I hope we do it again soon. Jen has wizarded the kitchen to her way of thinking, I was definitely living like a typical male with hardly any food in the fridge, all the pots and pans were all over the place in different cupboards and I was lacking in utensiles. One week in and Jen has used her magic touch to whip it in to shape, not just the kitchen but the whole apartment and it now feels more like a home than I had manged to make it since...October. There's even a scented candle in the bathroom to overpower the smell of my....beautifully digested food. Yeah.

I went back to work last night and Jen stayed home. While I slept all day today she found things to do. A trip to the grocery store on the bus and meeting up with Sarah but I'll let her tell you about that because I feel like maybe in my excitement I have taken over her blog..

In a few words...it's fantastic to have my wife here, I couldn't be happier right now. (Unless we won milions of pounds and could both live a life of luxury, of course!)

Day Three (By John)

2010-01-27T21:44:00.001Z

We woke up pretty early and I spent an hour washing up three days worth of stuff, seriously I miss having a dishwasher some times. Gave me a lot of time to think though and in the midst of the soapy water and dirty dishes I couldn't help but feel a bit overwhelmed, Jen has given up so much to be with me. She is not only the best wife ever but also the nicest person I have ever had the fortune to meet, kind and considerate even when it's clear she has a million and one other things on her mind.

Took Jen on the magical bus that took us to ASDA for a well overdue grocery restock, it's a good thing Jen is here or I might die. I've only shopped once properly for myself since I moved in here in October so there wasn't much food in the apartment at all. Jen fixed this, Jen knew what we needed, Jen had a plan and I was quite happy to push the trolley round the store while we picked thigs out. We struggled to get it all back and my arms are at least 3 inches longer than they were when I woke up this morning..

The afternoon was filled with THREE HOURS of walking round Ikea. It wasn't anyone's fault and I did have fun but that shop is so overwhelming the way it's set out and the colours are limited. We did find some good things though, a desk for the bedroom, two side tables, some plates and bowls, three lamps, some bed covers, candles and some other bits and pieces. It's amazing how the total cost rises so quickly.

Jen made meatballs for dinner and they were fantastic, I demolished my serving in good time and thank God we have some left over for tomorrow! I cant' wait to eat them again. I'm looking around the flat and all I can see is mess but we'll tackle this tomorrow, it's been a long day and I think I owe my wife a foot massage for being so awesome.

Edit in word from Jen: His wife had gone to read for a bit, and ended up being dead asleep, snoring loudly by the time he opened the door to offer up that massage.

Day Two

2010-01-27T10:43:00.000Z

After a long day one, where we went to bed at 4 in the afternoon and woke up at midnight, puttered around for a few hours before passing out for another six, we were mildly productive. After a breakfast of slightly burnt toast and disgusting instant coffee, John made me walk 8 miles (Slight exaggeration, probably.) to go into a magical store that had tons of things. It was a bit like a mini target with no clothes or food.

Got ourselves some measuring cups, some kitchen things, a power converter so my Mixer could be plugged in. Air freshner, garbage can, and a clock. Because I have no cell phone and thus no concept of time. We still need to get an alarm clock for the bedroom, because again, no concept of time.

Went around to his Parent's house for dinner, which involved more walking. And while I was content to sit on their couch watching tv all night to avoid walking back, the slave driver of a husband I have, made me.
Its times like that, where there is frost on the cars and I'm walking, that I long for my car- and its only been 2 days! Wont be long until I'm demanding to drive, I'm guessing.

Long day ahead of us, grocery shopping and some cleaning. Then at four his Mom is coming around to take us to Ikea where hopefully I will find some cheap furniture that can and will be delivered. Fingers crossed on that one.

My biggest problem at the moment, other than the walking everywhere, the jet lag or the fact that I'm missing Bones is that they have instant coffee. And John, the dear, bought a massive container of it. And I said "No new coffee maker until its all gone" so now I'm drinking this coffee that tastes like nothing delicious and it's making Jen sad faced.

And with this folks, I should probably put a few more tings away. Clothes are unpacked, books shelved bt ings like purses need a hiding spot as well as all my little knick knacks. So Until later, I miss you, America.

First day

2010-01-26T01:45:00.001Z

I decided to set up a new blog to talk about my adventures in England, and I have every intention of updating lots of times with pictures and things because yes, I'm going to be wandering around with a camera taking pictures and things.My parents dropped John and I off at the airport fairly early which gave me some time to smoke a few cigarettes before checking in and going through secuirity. But we wandered a bit, and got some sandwiches and water before sitting down at our gate.
We ended up waiting 2 hours and then the boarding was delayed because they were cleaning the plane. John and I got seats together. And then the lovely flight attendant brought me wine. And diet coke. And then some more wine.
So lets do a quick recap- Saturday night was the going away party where I managed a whopping 3 hours of sleep before getting up to finish packing, cleaning and sorting my things out. On the plane I took some Nyquil and 3 glasses of wine and managed to sleep... a whole hours. One hour. John was snoring next to me, content and thrilled with his napping abilities, and I got about an hour.And I woke him up a few times, because I couldn't sleep or read or focus on anything because the nyquil was killing me. And yet I was unable to sleep. It made for a long flight, with terrible turbulance. The kind where I thought I was going to break John's fingers from gripping them because I figured we were going to die.

We finally landed, and I was so happy to be off the plane that I didn't even mind standing and waiting 10 minutes for the man to verify my visa was legit, which obviously it was. Plus after we got through, we waited 20 seconds before we had all of our luggage. After that it was right outside with our 7suitcases for a cigarette. It had been a long time coming, and I was a bit shocked still about everything.

We got in line to wait for a taxi, which only took another 5 minutes or so, but then we got to the apartment and it is amazing. Seriously, tomorrow I will post up pictures of what it looks like, but at the moment I can't be bothered to and plus it's like Jen exploded all over the floor. I started unpacking in a crazy frenzy because if I sat down I was going to fall asleep.

We headed out and bought our bed, matress and a new laptop. Very productive for four hours of sleep in nearly three days. We got home and was going to set up the laptop and instead I fell asleep and was done for for the next 8 hours. And now you are caught up, and thus concludes day one for the time being.