The End

After today I will no longer be "An American Librarian in Norwich, England" so the blog will stay up as a record but I won't be adding any new posts. If you miss me you can always visit my other blogs, although they aren't so much about my personal life.

What I Really Think is where I review juvenile books I've read. I managed to read quite a few British juvenile books during my stay here and thoroughly enjoyed experiencing the unadulterated text. (British books published in America tend to be edited to take out colloquialisms.)

Sound and Sense is a blog I started recently which should get more attention now that I am done with this one. It is a place for me to muse on the relationship between the spoken word and what it means using mostly everyday examples. This is an area of interest for me, but I am in no way an expert.

So, this is it! John and I are packed. I spent the day cleaning. I cleaned both bathrooms, although the lower one really just needed a once over after the most recent cleaning. I cleaned the kitchen counters and floor. I want to say, the kitchen floor was particularly gruesome and wasn't really clean even when we first moved in. I also vacuumed all the rooms as much as I was able with our pitiful power sweeper.

John pitched moving to England to me by reminding me that I wanted to "have an adventure." An adventure it has surely been, between learning to live in a foreign country and learning to live with John. (Remember that we moved immediately after getting married.) I know that we will always look back on our time here fondly, but it is with excitement that we embark on our next "adventure."

Taxes

I was hoping to get out this weekend, but John was expecting a package today so we couldn't really go anywhere. Lame. (If you give a husband permission to buy a computer, he will decide he needs some accessories...)

I filed our taxes and it looks like we are getting a refund on both federal and state. John wasn't going to file since he didn't make enough money, but I decided to file us jointly in the hope that his school expenses would get us a better refund.

That is about all the excitement here for today.

If you looked at Sound and Sense yesterday and couldn't make any sense of it, fear not. I was looking back over it this morning and noticed that in changing between templates I lost paragraph and a half somewhere. It should be fixed now.

On Our Own Again

It was sad to see our first over-seas visitor go, but Danny is on to more adventures in London.

To fill the void I started a new blog. Am I turning into a blogoholic?

The truth is that this blog has shown me that daily blogging is good for me and I've been contemplating what to do when I am no longer the "American librarian in Norwich, England." Blogging so frequently when I am in the inherently interesting situation of living in a foreign country has not been easy. What would I talk about once I move home? So I decided to make my post-Norwich blog on a topic I feel I could speak on endlessly (who would have guessed that topic was not myself?): the spoken word.

Anyway, the new blog was meant to start after I came home from Norwich, but I have so many ideas now that I don't want to lose. And I find many opportunities here to talk about sound and sense that I don't want to pass up. Please check it out if the topic interests you. If not, you can keep reading about my Norwich adventures right here for a few more months.