Living as an expat in the US
Picture courtesy of CityGrazing.com Do you have a real Christmas tree? Then you need goats. If you don’t already have goats you’re missing an opportunity that San Franciscans have embraced. And that’s why they’re better than you. I think that’s how that goes. Now that Christmas is just a hazy…
Americans consume about eight kilograms of turkey each year and I’m guessing most of that is eaten on Thanksgiving Day, especially if you consider the fact that about 280 million turkeys are sold in the lead up to the national holiday. Clearly, if I was going to live like them,…
San Francisco! There are a few emotions that you go through when that tinny voice cones over the airport PA and announces, in a reticent stutter, that your flight has been cancelled due to bad weather. For me, tiredness and the intense need for a shower trumped all those emotions.…
That’s not my name! “Can I have the chicken salad and a bottle of water please?” “Sorry?” “I just wanted to order the chicken salad. And a water.” *confused look* “I don’t understand you.” I’ll spare you the entirety of this conversation, suffice to say it ended when I did…
Not strange at all… It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a city in possession of a good amount of technically savvy occupants must also be overrun by strange and sometimes pointless inventions. Silicon Valley is that place and if you want a robot boss or a drone to deliver…
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…
