Manchester chester and manchester

going.......
to ENGLAND!!!!  next week!!!!!  i neeeeeeed a Cath Kidson polkadotty-crossbody purse.  and that's a good enough reason, right???!!  right!

dying......
for pizza express fiorentina (with no olives).  thanks Tarnya, it was just the little nudge i needed to press "quit procrastinating and book it already" :)

neeeeeding....
to buy those HUMUNGOUS 10KG Cadbury bars - like 100 of them!  i don't care how much it costs to ship back

also dying......
for spud-u-like.  the one in Chester.  with the roman ruins in the basement  (we did a latin field trip to there in school ;)

and absolutely dyyyyying.......
to walk the cobbled diesel-y streets of Manchester with Smiths songs in my head   

kinda wanting.....
to get my hair cut at Vidal Sassoon.  in Boston or Manchester - i don't care which.... i just want perfectly precision cut fall-into-place flippy shiny hair


definitely wanting
another vampsterdam shellac manicure

hoping.......
i can figure out Coronation Street.... it's only been 17 years.  i hope it's not all secret love-children and buried bodies these days....

pretty skies (i don't miss the constant blueness of California skies one bit)

 10 seconds after his Wimpy Kid book arrived (he hasn't put it down yet....)

 bookmarking UK places on yelp and drooooooling over the pictures

dreamy Friday morning

 did i mention.... i'm going home?????!