Friday, October 5, 2012

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 fiancĂ©, 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.

16 comments:

  1. found your blog through ATP and love it! xox

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  2. I love how much you love England and London :) I love America and Canada with that same fondness - and all the cultural and linguistic differences. Where abouts in the English countryside are you planning to get married?

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  3. Thank you for doing a bit of a welcome! I'm here from Megan's blog and can't believe all that we have in common! I'm planning my own wedding, this coming December, and while I'm not doing it from a different country I am planning it from a different state. Sorta the same, right? :-) I also have a golden retriever pup who is my "other man" and an awesome fiance. I look forward to reading more from your blog soon.

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  4. we're getting married in Suffolk, near the North Sea. it's beautiful!


    and yes, I do love England with all my heart. It has plenty of issues, but that's because it's a real place - and that's what makes it half of my home :)

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  5. well hello, and welcome! just stopped by your blog and your fiance is very cute but OMG CAN WE TALK ABOUT YOUR BABY? he is just as squishy as Charlie :) I bet he thinks he's a lapdog, too - all 92 lbs of him!

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  6. I adore your dress and belt and that dog is so darling.


    Tracy @ Sunny Days and Starry Nights

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  7. thanks! the dress is Land's End, the belt is my mom's - and yes, the dog is totally squishy :) so glad you came by!

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  8. I have overwhelming Anglophilia as well. It's really amazing that I haven't made it across the pond yet! I love your dress in that picture :)

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  9. Okay, 'Wet, Hot, American Summer' is a staple movie in our house- seriously, we rate other movies in comparison to it. Paul didn't go to camp growing up, though, and I usually went to several 1-2 week ones each summer. But still. That movie is CLASSIC.
    Also Charlie looks completely innocent and adorable there and I might steal him. So there. :)

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  10. Did you wear that dress to Blogger Blitz? I love it, it's so much fun! Charlie is so cute, I cannot wait to get a dog, hopefully in 2013!

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  11. You are so cute and I miss your face!!

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  12. I already liked you, but then you went and used one of my favorite words, discombobulate, and now I really, really like you :)

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  13. haha thank you! it was one of my mother's pet words when I was growing up, so I knew the sense of it when I was little even if I didn't actually know what it meant. (much like the word "crap," another favorite of Mom's, which I thought just meant "junk" or "mess" until I was about 12...)

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  14. you may visit him and squish him. and he and Max and Sloan can be foolish together!

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