January went by quickly but has left me in a pretty good place, with most of my settling in processes sorted out including UK banking and NHS, and with a job on the horizon. I also got my computer repaired and my room somewhat set up, and less productively played about a zillion hours of Pocket Mortys ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been a bit of a mad rush ( Read more... )

johncoxon has put up this sweet design on Teespring, available until June 30th;


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The morning after the wedding we slept in and then had a nice buffet breakfast at the Hyatt before packing our bags to head south. John's parents picked us up and after dropping his brother George at SFO we hit the road towards San Luis Obispo and our ultimate destination; the famous (infamous?) Madonna Inn ( Read more... )

(Catching up on the last few weeks here, gotta make an effort to post in a more timely manner ( Read more... )

John flew out on May 2nd with his parents and brother and then on May 7th we got married at San Francisco City Hall ( Read more... )

So on Christmas Eve johncoxon proposed and I said yes.

The rest of the Xmas holiday was lovely as well, as was New Year's Eve.

More details linked over on my blog, but suffice it to say that it has been a pretty great holiday season :)

It’s good and cold here now, though not quite literally freezing yet.
John got back and we had a nice day in Peterborough as he recovered from the trip. Then last week we went to Southampton on an exploratory mission of his soon-to-be new hometown.
We didn’t see all of it but got a basic idea of the layout, which seems a bit more spread out than ( Read more... )

(crossposted from my website)

Today makes two weeks in Leicester, during which the weather has been as hot or hotter than it was in Santa Monica, something I did not see coming. But otherwise it’s been quite nice.

I got into Leicester pretty late on Thursday and then John and I headed to Peterborough on Friday to visit his family. Saturday involved ( Read more... )

The week in Spain was wonderful in the end, but started off frighteningly bad.

I'd decided that I would fly to Spain on Monday and have johncoxon  join me a few days later. In theory this would a) allow me to get a bit of the family stuff out of the way, b) let me ease back into my Spanish, and c) give us some days off from each other in case jet lag plus ( Read more... )