Hello from...: California?! How did I get here?

Well this blog was originally intended for my life in Europe, particularly my life in London. And it was going along swimmingly when then life gave me a beat down and sent me back to NY with my tail between my legs. (For the whole story read next paragraph if you already know the story move on, please.)

Last year, 2007 to be exact, I thought I'd give life with my family in England a try and live out there for a year or 2. I go every year for Christmas and this was no different. Instead, I was just going to stay a little bit longer, say 12 months or more. So after the lovely Christmas holidays I got a job working for a publishing company that sent me the following week off to Paris for a design show. I went and was heading back to London when Border Control stopped me thinking that I was working illegally in the country and wouldn't let me go home. I tried every way possible to get back to my family, friends and things in London and was forced to spend 3.5 weeks in Paris living in a random woman's house until I flew home to NYC on Valentine's Day. (Tickets were provided by my wonderful friend Mike who without I would still be living in Paris.) Now Paris was fab and I had an amazing time there. I really hope I get the chance to go again in the spring/summer because it was pretty cold when I was there. But I'm heart broken that my European experience ended that way and I was quickly forced to say goodbye to people that I was getting to know and places that I was starting to love. Now I'm working on getting back again at least to get my DVDs and books back. Oh how I miss them.

So instead of staying in NY hating my life and not wanting to be there anymore I've decided to pick up and go again to California this time. YAY! Plus, having family out here is a blessing since they let me sleep on their couches and eat their food. But the one little problem of picking up and moving across the country is not having a job or friends right away so you gotta work on that, which I'm trying to do now. So I guess this will be the theme of my blog, the new adventure of making a life for myself in California. New Yorker meets sunshine and happy people while trying to do something new on the opposite end of the country. Whoa! That's pretty insane.

So now I leave you some pics of my new home town.