my mother and step father are here visiting. eleanor has forgotten all about me and tim. we seriously don't exist with her grandparents here. obviously that means that tim and i are going on a roadtrip to glasgow for two days.

we leave this morning. so fucking excited!

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i had my second driving lesson today. i can't believe i'm here again... driving lessons. at 33. my canadian license expired years ago. i never got tested to get a british one. so... yeah. i don't know how to drive a manual transmission and most cars here are manual. anyway, it hasn't been as bad as i thought. i'm overthinking things... and i have a ( Read more... )

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back to reality. harsh reality. we've had over £1500 stolen from our bank account and i hate and mistrust the world. it's not even money that we have. i'm overdrawn that amount. waiting in limbo land for it to be sorted is awful ( Read more... )

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it's saturday now and i've come to the end of a very long week. i'm ill for the first time in ages. and my patience was limited and i was quick to temper. very unlike me. eleanor and i are going through a difficult time. she has started using the tactic of smacking me when she feels i am getting in her way. for example, me telling her not to touch ( Read more... )

why did i stay up after midnight last night? i didn't do anything interesting. watched boring shows on UKfood channel and read through blog archives. i am a loser and a geek ( Read more... )

yesterday afternoon, tim and eleanor and i walked to the grocery store. not very exciting. we have to zig zag down some side roads with the terraced houses that line all the streets in england. we got everything we needed and loaded up the buggy and started walking home. there was black smoke rising up into the sky ahead of us, around the corner at ( Read more... )