What Is And What Should Never Be

I've mentioned that this fall I was disoriented without college football on Saturdays. (I've since decided I'm over it completely and didn't even watch a bowl game.) And yeah, it's been a struggle to find markers of fall, and now winter, in Scotland. The weather got cooler faster (and summer was never really hot) and the leaves changed colors. Fall is a really beautiful season to visit anywhere I think. Now that winter is here, the rain is too. And there are the short days. But nothing has felt like anything. Not Halloween or Thanksgiving or Christmas. Mostly because those aren't holidays here. Still, it has been fun to holidays and seasons in new ways. Halloween  The American version of Halloween is just beginning to catch on here. When kids start saying things like "candy" and "jack-o-lantern" parents know they've been watching American Youtubers. Jack-o-lanterns aren't really a thing, and candy is called "sweets." (Sid...

Hiya! To the family and friends wanting an update... rest assured, we made it, and with no hassle at all. The same cannot be said of the box we shipped to meet us here (it did make it but with all the hassle. Don't send us anything!! Expect cash via Paypal. We'll accept that ;) Here's us at the airport. We were laughing imagining ourselves walking with all of this through all of this (aka the Fringe Festival-- a month-long art festival that takes over the city and centers on High Street, which we live on the corner of.) image via scottish sun  Anyway, we wised up and took a taxi to our Air BnB for the night, which, unknown to me when I booked it, was literally across the street from our actual apartment! View of our apartment from the cutest Air BnB where you can stay there when you come to visit. Or sleep on our living room floor. There's a cot and an air mattress but we haven't tested them. In the picture, our apartment is the blue door bet...