Oh, Hey... From Before*

This has been the most discombobulating week - I had Monday and Tuesday off work, so Wednesday felt like Monday but today's already Friday.  Plus, we're back to hot and muggy weather in DC after a month of brilliantly glorious autumn, so I'm just generally confused.  Let's start fresh, shall we?

So: hello!  Welcome to Betsy Transatlantically, and welcome especially to you lovely readers who have voyaged from Across the Pond to get here.  (See what I did there?  Yeah, I'm smooth.  Don't be too intimidated.)  It's possible that my current readers have gotten so caught up in my adventures that they've forgotten who I am; I'll reintroduce myself to all of you so we can really be friends.

I'm Betsy, an American re/expat.  The "expat" part means that I was based in England for three out of the past four years; I moved to London in September 2008 for a year to pursue my MA, where I met my handsome English fiancé, and then returned in June 2010 to live and work.  The "repat" part means that I just came back to Washington, DC at the end of May this year and am now getting reacquainted with my hometown.  But I haven't left London behind completely - I'm planning our wedding in the deepest English countryside, and so still consider myself transatlantic.  Here, meet Jon:

Wait - no, that's not Jon!  That's Charlie.  He's my back lab puppy; we rescued him on July 14, but I can't remember a time when he wasn't part of the family.  (If you follow me on Instagram, you'll get to know him very well.)  Charlie's the other man in my life.  But my main squeeze, really, is Jon.

If you want to get to know me a bit better, feel free to wander around my about me page or through the archives.  There's a lot here - from the nuts and bolts of moving to the UK and starting with a blank slate in a new country (including finding a flat and a job) to lifestyle-y posts on fashion and cooking to musings on politics and religion as well as, obviously, my overwhelming Anglophilia.  You can also follow me on Twitter, if you'd like!  The possibilities are endless.

I do hope you choose to stick around - please say hello in the comments here so I can get to know you, too!  And thanks for stopping by.  It's so great to meet new people through this amazing community!

*This post title comes from one of the classic lines in Wet Hot American Summer, which is a film I lived through each July every year as a child when I went to sleepaway camp.  If you're English, you probably won't find it funny.  If you're American... watch it and weep.