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So this Monday the 1st of September (which is also Labor Day) makes it official. All my earthly possessions, and even my dog Zoe now reside in New York. I spent all day today driving a 15 foot U-haul 260 miles and now I’m preparing for the actual move into Brooklyn in the morning. I’m [...]

If you know me, then you also probably know that I am perpetually, habitually and chronically lost. I am the only person I know that’s had to stop and ask for directions to get out of a parking garage. Most recently I emerged from the bathroom at the MOMA and wound up having to [...]

If you haven’t read part one yet, just click here
We got home that night and Melissa went to bed exhausted. I could not sleep, the weight of the decision we had made was heavy and I found myself Googling our new neighborhood. What I found was bleak. In the past few weeks there had [...]

As anyone whose been paying attention around here for the past couple of weeks already knows, finding an apartment in New York is no easy task. It is in fact, one of the more difficult endeavors one can take on in this city. So much so, that many people I’ve met here will stay in [...]

Finally, last night, at around 8pm we sat down and made it final. I will not lie, this has been one of the most arduous tasks I have ever embarked upon. If I wanted to stump Hercules, after the whole barn cleaning I would have marched his loin cloth-ed butt right over to Brooklyn and [...]

Being in New York for me is a whole lot like falling in love. I can feel my heart fluttering when I get off the train in the mornings and emerge on 5th avenue with the sun shining down and glinting off the buildings. The weather is tremendous too, which really doesn’t hurt the romanticism [...]

I am all out of shoes.

Seriously. Even my uber comfy awesome sandals from DSW have turned traitor on my feet and war has been declared.

I lined all my shoes up in front of my little closet last night and studied them one at a time, trying them on, looking for any clues on what might [...]

I’m going to share all the wonderful juicy details of our new abode, where it is, how we got it and tips on avoiding the dreaded broker fee, but we haven’t 100% absolutely definitely secured the spot yet and in the sake of both discretion and superstition lets just say… It’s amazing. Details to come [...]

When I first arrived I noticed a great many things about New York. The smells, which vary from mouth watering-ly delicious to mind numbingly, bile evokingly awful. And often somewhere in between with both of these types intermingling at will, which gets interesting.I also noticed the massive number of people, the faster pace at which [...]

So as you might imagine, deciding to make the move to New York came after a long series of deep thinking processes involving extensive logic databases and calculation of mathematical statistics.
Or maybe Kel and I just sat down one day and she said “Jill you’ve always wanted to live in New York!”
And then I [...]