Gloomy, Gloomy!

This is the first time in days I've seen the sun. It doesn't help that I sleep far too late and then stay up far too late at night. But mostly it has to do with the weather. It has been hovering around freezing pretty the entire week which makes going out and doing anything more of an effort than it already was. Now, I realize I'm from Wisconsin and should be used to the cold. But in Wisconsin I had a car, many warm coats, and mostly importantly HOT HOT HEAT! Don't get me wrong, the heat here isn't so bad...when it is on. Otherwise it just seems gloomy and drafty and cold. And did I mention gloomy?

I think we're going to move. For me it is hard to live so far from the center. We went out on Friday night and it took us around an hour and a half to get home between the walk to the bus stop and the 1hr+ long bus ride. For Morgan that is one of the many reasons he is dying to move. So I guess the apartment hunt starts again. I'm definitely disappointed that all of the time I put into the search when I was in Milwaukee landed me with a place for only such a short time, but I'm sure we'll find something else. And now at least we can actually visit the apartment before we decide to move in. For me 3 weeks in a place isn't really long enough to count as a real try, but at the same time I can understand why it is pointless to wait a few more weeks or months to make a decision when we already know it won't work in the long run. So move we shall.

I've finally gotten things with my school and my loans all sorted out, which is a relief. I even convinced a bank to let me open an account! Strangely enough I have now received TWO cards in the mail: a debit card and a 'cash point' card. Maybe I'm crazy, but I was just expecting one! Does this literally mean that I have to use a different card in the ATM (or as some like to say 'TYME (time??) MACHINE') than what I use at a store to make a purchase? What can I say, Britain is a strange place.

Speaking of reasons why this is a strange place... Let's just say the food here isn't quite my thing. I mean, I respect the 'all day breakfast' as much as the next American. But when it includes 3 different kinds of oddly shaped sausage
s, a mushy tomato, and a scoopful of Heinz baked beans (which really are more white here than the brownish tone I was accustomed to in the US, by the way), I just don't see the point of boasting the fact that you can make such a miserable meal choice ALL DAY! I mean 2 hours of such a thing on a menu is 2 hours too long as far as I'm concerned.
And the meat... I have never considered myself a meat connoisseur by any means, but here it is just sad. Morgan doesn't seem to mind it, but when I compare the pathetic excuse for a burger that I can get at any pub in London to the joy that is the Hooliburger, it makes me admittedly a little sad. Although, strangely enough, I just tried to search for an image of a typical British pub burger and all of the results I got back looked delicious. Maybe it's just because I'm hungry...or maybe I've just been going to the wrong places!

Back to the Heinz beans. This is a phenomenon I just can't quite grasp. Why is it the most plentiful thing in every supermarket? It seems like there is a section devoted entirely to Heinz baked beans...miles and miles of blue cans. Who buys this? A mother cooking for a family? A single guy looking for a quick meal? The elderly? Is it a favorite snack for children? Someone please tell me. Also, please remind me if this exists at all in the US! I feel fairly certain that there are no blue cans floating around Pick 'n Save.


All of that being said, the beer is still pretty damn tasty! Cheers!