January 2012


  • Travel, Pinterest, Sheryl Sandberg, Jody!

    PinterestNew hobby is Pinterest. I would think most people are hearing about it or just about to. The site basically allows for you to capture all of your interests and explore new interests through visual categorization and then share. Here is an image from my Pinterest. Some people set-up one for us to use that…


  • New Fun London Commercial

    Promoting “hands-only CPR” is Vinnie Jones. Quite a clever one:


  • Sunday is a double dose of MC!

    A lot of updates are happening but I don’t want to have one continuous post so I have decided to break them into two parts. Here is the second part. Golden Globes: Golden Globes are on this evening and I will be missing it for the first time in years. I am a bit obsessed…


  • London Week in Review: NFL playoffs, Celebrities, Settling In!

    The past couple of weeks have been busy and today I am enjoying a day of leisure! So I am using this opportunity to catch-up a bit on the blog! Lucy and I met-up to watch the NFL playoffs last weekend at a nearby sports pub. The Steelers lost; I wasn’t even able to stay…


  • NHS Registration

    I just got back from registering with my GP for the first time since moving here. I feel like this is one of the rites of passage of someone who is officially an expat. Not that I have an actual list for moving to the UK but a few things would be: Open a bank…


  • Clever meme idea – Ode to Sam!

    So clever Drew considered the notion of my good friend Sam becoming a meme. What does this mean? Well cutie pie Sam is pregnant (yay!). One of our friends and co-workers, Heather, from my old workplace in the states decided to post up a photo a day of colleagues around the office with a sign…


  • The holiday is over…back to business!

    2012 resolution: learn French. I already reached out to a nearby locale called the French alliance which is nearby me to join their 10-week program. One starts in January and the other in April. It’s quite pricey and I have quite a few travels coming up so may have to wait it out till April…