After a long hiatus, I am finally posting on this blog and plan to start posting more regularly. Between last August and now, I haven't felt like I have really done anything that I was really inspired to write about. To summarize; between October...

Going to Las Vegas tonight, for a long weekend of all kinds of badness. Will return on Monday. I'll post pictures, etc, when I get back. ...

Evidently the donkey found them very sexy though! My brother sent me this today. It's hilarious. :-)...

Yesterday I went to my first ever baseball game. For the benefit of my family (who as far as I know have never been to a baseball game either - it's a virtually non-existent sport in the uk), the rules are similar to the game "rounders" that we used...

When you cut me off while yakking to someone on your phone yesterday, you forgot one important consideration... Who do you think is going to care the most if I hit you? You in your $40,000+ Porsche Cayenne SUV, or me in my $1200 18 year...

I have only met a few so far and this seems to be a developing trend. I hope this doesn't say something about me, and I hope that the locals don't think we are all like Colin (who has his birthday party tomorrow - so who knows what offensive crap he'll...

Well, not literally but... Last Friday I decided to go for a bicycle ride along Palos Verdes Drive South and West, both of which run along the coastline in Rancho Palos Verdes and Palos Verdes Estates. It has some truly beautiful scenery and is...

It was Steve's birthday on Monday, July 24. I won't broadcast his age on here, because he probably wouldn't appreciate it - and because he tells everybody who doesn't know better that he's 35. ;-). Because his birthday fell on a weekday, we decided...

Last night we went to meet one of Steve's friends Colin and his long suffering wife Michelle at Acapulco Mexican restaurant. When we arrived, they were already there with a few of Colin's workmates. I really like Michelle, but I am not sure about...

Steve and I were supposed to go out to The Blue Cafe in Long Beach tonight. A couple of women we know, I hesitate to say friends because I barely know them, called and invited us out for dinner last night. I'll call them A and B. They were supposed...

I went down to the DMV to take the test for my California driver’s license last Monday, after booking it 3 weeks prior to this. I stood in line with everyone else, only to be told, “You can’t take the test. You only have 30 days left on your...

Today I went to have my hair cut and coloured for the first time since I moved to the Los Angeles area. It was a disaster. I walked in there and the owner introduced my to my "hair stylist". In hindsight she must have been the trainee. I was not...

Whilst clearing out the garage we discovered a blast from Steve's past. :-) His first Motorola cellphone. Apparently this was given to him by the company he worked for at the time and cost about $1000! ...

We got married on Saturday, in Vegas, in a chapel on the strip. It was not our first choice, and was more humorous than special. The lady who married us had to have been about 100 years old and looked like they had let her out of the nursing home...

Blog update coming tomorrow... I know it's been a long time, but I have been at the computer since 9am selecting, resizing and uploading pictures. Enough for today. Time for a walk in the sunshine. It's 75 degrees outside! *Update - If you click...

This post is a little late, because it happened on March 28. I just wanted to write about it while the experience was still fresh in my mind. I doubt it is something I will forget quickly, as it signalled the end of a long and frustrating process....

Wow, it's been a long time since my last post. Almost a month in fact. I have been so busy with work and getting ready to move etc, that I just haven't got round to it. I also need to apologise for the NOT so interesting pictures. I was on a bike...

Well clearly the lady that I spoke to at the Embassy didn't know what she was talking about. I received my interview date (March 28th 2006), in the mail yesterday. The trouble is that, based on what the lady told me, we have already changed our plans....

Happy Valentines Day, Steve. The roses are beautiful! Talk to you later and see you in exactly 2 weeks from today. :-)...

On Wednesday I booked a flight to Los Angeles. After calling the embassy and learning that it could be up to 13 weeks until I actually have an interview date (taking us up to the beginning of May), we decided that we had to see each other before then....

Yesterday I rang the US Embassy in London to see how close they were to setting an visa interview date for me. Steve and I (in our ignorance) were expecting them to move pretty fast with this, since all they had to do is schedule a date. Who were...

This is my first post for a while, since my life over the past few weeks has been all about work, waiting, and more waiting... We had a nightmare trying to get the correct information from Steve's bank. All we needed was; The date the account...

My results from my medical on December 22nd arrived today! I had to have this medical for my US visa, before I can schedule my final interview. This is basically to prove that you don't have any diseases which would make you a risk to other citizens,...

I took Steve to the airport this morning at the ungodly hour of 4.30am, as he had to catch an internal flight to London Heathrow to get his flight back to LAX. As I write this, he is about 7 hours into his flight. He hates flying and is so nervous...

We had a nice, relatively peaceful family Christmas here. Just my dad, mum, brother and myself. I mentioned earlier on that my fiancé Steve would not be coming over from California for the holidays, as we had decided that it was really too much money...