A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house and there was no sign of the [...]
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What Did You Do All Day?
Posted in A Brit Abroad, Procrastinate, recipe,, Uncategorized on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So, What’s Fresh and Easy?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You’re wrong! Unless you have shares in Tesco. It’s the name of their stores, yes multiple, that are proliferating on the US west coast. I’m jazzed! They look to be like a mini Trader Joes that sell named brands as well as own brands, in small neighb0rhoods, where folks may even consider a walk and [...]
Memories of becoming a US citizen
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A co-worker from South America will be taking her citizenship test tomorrow in San Francisco. It’s very expensive and highly bureaucratic, (okay call it governmental procedure), to even entertain this process. What’s to know? The correct answer to one hundred questions back down and up about the US constitution. They ask 10, but we never [...]
Why is “Mother’s Day” on different days?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Why is “Mother’s Day” on different days, even different months in Britain then the US? Here in the US its celebrated on the second Sunday in May. This year it falls on May 9th. Australia celebrates it then too. With their British roots I would have thought otherwise! Same with Canada. About ten years ago [...]
If you like cooking, wine and a zany sense of humor…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Goofing around on Stumble.com and came across this blog: http://noblepig.com/ She’s quite the character!
So they say no tanktops. Should I?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Yep, Jury duty is now a reality Called in this evening and they have me in the cross hairs. Have to be in situ tomorrow at 8 am through whenever. I will keep you informed! Please feel free to pass this blog on by the way, as I seem to be the single author, reader [...]
Tada!!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have two URLs, my official one karenhamiltonfein.com and my fun one abritabroad.com. Sooo, today I deferred my fun one to my new blog on WordPress from Go.Daddy.com … and it worked! It was also updated on my website, (which so needs my attention). Again, I am so in awe of how relatively easy it [...]
It was the Mac power outlet $200 later!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wire was wasted. Could only purchase the whole nine yards and not just the part where the little do-dad magnetic thing connects, at $75+ tax.
Domesticity
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My computer died in my son’s room this morning. To recover, it was just a power failure. But that did include a visit to the Mac store. Still, we did savour some choice words…
