Tuesday, September 29, 2009

to market, to market...


Brandon and I are feeling much more settled in now, having purchased most of the everyday items we need to survive, gotten the internet and cell phones, and opened our British bank account. We also received a box of goodies from Jesse Torgerson and his wife Kelly who studied here last year. They were kind enough to leave us a bunch of towels and hangers and pillows, &c!

So, this is sort of our first week of normal life at Cambridge, and we haven't quite figured out how everything will flow just yet.

I walked to town to get groceries yesterday and before I knew it I had picked out 3 meals-worth of food along with basic items like milk, cheese, butter - oh and a can opener. I didn't think anything of it until I was about 100 yards in to my walk home with a ridiculously heavy shopping-bag sized bag on each arm. I slowly made my way back, frequently stopping to readjust the heavy load, and kick myself. A bike wouldn't have helped unless it had had deluxe saddle bags. I am still feeling it today. From now on I am going do what I had originally planned when I saw our mini-fridge, and go for groceries more frequently buying much less.

From this day forward it will be "To market, to market to buy a fat pig. Home again, home again jiggity jig."

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