A friend of mine is getting married this summer (she deserves major props for undertaking all the Covid-related planning this requires). She was asking me for advice about managing pre-wedding stress and I reminded her of what people had advised me before my own wedding: as much as you can, slow down and enjoy the experience. Something is bound to go wrong on the day but it won’t ruin the whole event. (My wedding day “oops” was forgetting my veil…
Am I allowed to call it a farm yet? We are still in the dreaming phase BUT there has been what feels like a big step forward… Since the last blog post, we have decided we DO in fact want backyard birds. Not chickens, but ducks! I LOVE eggs but am not such a fan of chickens. Apparently, my late father loved chickens and kept of his own back in the day, but it looks like I didn’t inherit that…
In the past 2 weeks, I’ve had to travel back to Brooklyn as many times. First for a dentist appointment (verdict: my flossing needs improvement). And then again to pick up my car which had finally been restored after the vandalization. (Reunited and it feels so good!) I don’t know how it’s possible, but I’ve become so acclimated to our new environment that being in Brooklyn and Manhattan felt a little jarring. Despite having lived there for many years until…
My concept of time has really gone askew during Covid, but now I’m even more thrown off. Has it been two weeks since we moved into this house? Two months? Even longer? Alan and I have said a lot lately that it somehow feels like we’ve always lived here. Despite the initial mountain of boxes to sort through, not knowing where the grocery store is, and trying to find the source of that annoying beeping sound somewhere in the house,…
The mere idea of summing up the past two weeks in a snappy, concise post is enough to make me laugh. In true 2020 fashion, the final push toward the move has not gone remotely according to plan. I wouldn’t feel right disclosing too many details here, but I can say this. Two days before our scheduled closing on 12/10, we were notified that there was an issue with the title of the house. Namely, it wasn’t free of liens….
Well, as expected, the final push toward our move has snuck up on us with the delicacy of a Mack truck. Suddenly, in exactly two weeks, a crew of movers will come to pack up our furniture. The same furniture they placed here 2 years ago when we took residence in our Brooklyn home! And what a two years it’s been… We moved in on my birthday in February 2019 and celebrated with pizza delivery and a well earned night’s…
I’ve procrastinated writing this post for weeks. And before that, I had been thinking about it for months. But now as we enter the closing phase of buying our house, it makes sense to reflect and muse on what I’m leaving behind. A few (very well-meaning), family members and friends have asked me how I could possibly leave NYC when my career is here. I’ll admit I’ve wondered that myself and then wondered why I haven’t had even a moment’s…
Or should I say, in with the old and out with the new? As in, swapping out our hip, modern furniture for the good old kind. For any of you who know me at all, you’ll also know that I am more than a little obsessed with home decor. In another life (one of the dozens that I’ve imagined at this point), I would have loved to study design and make a career of being an interior designer; helping homeowners…
As we speed toward our closing date (early December), I can’t help but mentally walk through our house every night as I fall asleep. At this point I’ve seen it only 3 times (4, if you count the FaceTime walk through), but I could picture it in my sleep. And trust me, I do! Last night, I had a very vivid dream of our yard and a massive and elaborate fencing system we had installed for Sadie. In the dream,…
Two weeks ago I posted that I drove upstate to check out 3 or 4 houses that our realtor had set up. I had so many feelings that morning in the car; nervous excitement, hope, giddiness, and disbelief (was this really happening??!!). I wished Alan could have been with me to see everything I was about to see, but with his intense work schedule that just wasn’t possible on a weekday. So I drove the 3 hours up north in…