Living as an expat in the US
Excuse the Halloween wrap-up delay – I was slightly busy being a human sloth and sleeping off sickness. The good news is that I got a good 17 hours of shut eye, so I should be good for at least the next three days. Halloween was both awesome and slightly…
The Fillmore – All chandeliers and awesome I’ve been to two different venues for gigs in San Francisco so I feel extremely qualified to say this: they’re pretty. Not the flowers and pastels kind of pretty, they’re way grittier than that. They just ooze a sense of history – both…
My two loves: Food and kittens. Break out the black and orange crepe paper and hand over your sharp knives and gourds, it’s American Halloween. I’ve dressed up for Halloween (once) before – as the world’s most unconvincing Bellatrix LeStrange. But that was in Australia. A land of half-hearted Halloween.…
Do yourself a favour. Don’t mess with these guys. Have you ever tried shipping something to fair America? Maybe I should be more specific: Have you ever tried to ship any of your own belongings to the US? I have. And if you’re a customs official, there’s no need for…
Home decorating: The cheap way. I have a confession to make: I am a Nanna. No husband, no boyfriend, no kids and definitely no grandkids and yet I’m developing an appreciation for cups and saucers with fancy flower patterns, embroidery and DIY projects. I want to take up crochet, make…
The radio sucks, my iPad is dead and I don’t have any CDs. There’s an hour of gridlocked traffic ahead of me. Here’s the list of things that amused me in the San Francisco car park also known as the 92. 1. Laugh at anything that could be at all…
It’s been a while. Granted I’ve been slightly busy. New job, new apartment, new furniture and countless trips to utility service centres with my passport to prove that I actually exist. Generally slashing and burning my savings like a kid who’s finally gotten control of their trust fund. It’s…
We’re not locking you in, we’re locking them out I’m a week older but it feels like I’ve gained about a thousand year’s worth of Living-in-the-US points just from the seemingly simple tasks of finding an apartment, buying new furniture and moving in. Yes, that’s right. After exactly 10 days…
I got there in the end. Worth it. When I woke up this morning I had a plan. It was a good one. Train in to the city, go on a bike tour out to the Golden Gate bridge, eat delicious things, come home. Simple. Stealthy. Effective. Foolproof even. You…
Who’s up for a chicken tikka naan open sandwich? I’ve taken a big fat scary leap. If I was the statistical type I’d say it was 7432 kilometres (as the crow flies) worth of big and fat. Jumping from Sydney, Australia to San Francisco shouldn’t be scary – we both…
