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Prepare for teh NOM

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Things may start to look a little odd here, while I play with the code and such, so please bear with me.

Thanks! <3

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I have a love/hate relationship with tourist pits in this city. I hate dealing with slow-moving, in-the-way, picture-taking tourists. But, at the same time I love the feeling of knowing that I live in a place most people only get to sample. I count myself as such a lucky person to live here. I wake up a city so alive our floor shakes from time to time (or that could be the construction down the street… but I digress).

I didn’t always feel this way. My transition period was not a smooth one. Many nights there were tears and questions of what I was doing here. I was amazed by how a city so full of people could be so lonely. I was told when I moved here it would take about a year to get in the groove of things, and boy were they right. Nearly a year after I moved here it was as if I was pulled out of a cave and was dancing my way around the streets. And, once you get into the groove of New York, it’s the most amazing thing! Falling in love doesn’t hurt much, either.

I loved reading (in the below article) how similar my experience were to others who decide to take a chance on living here!

Sometime over the course of a person’s first year in New York, there usually comes that moment. It can happen in the first days or weeks, or after 10 months. It can happen repeatedly, or without people noticing, at least not at first.

Newcomers suddenly realize either that the city is not working for them or that they are inexorably becoming part of it, or both. They find themselves walking and talking faster.

The subway begins to make sense. Patience is whittled away; sarcasm often ensues. New friends are made, routines established, and city life begins to feel like second nature. In other words, newcomers find themselves becoming New Yorkers.

Newcomers Adjust, Eventually, to New York | Via Swiss Miss

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… and I need a pick-me-up from this crappy day. Love you, sweetheart!
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Just a post about a bunch of things, at once. Thursday we saw Hellboy 2 (Jack enjoyed it, but I thought it was okay) and I wore my fabulous new thrift shoes (which I got while on our Santa Cruz trip, for $5). The rest of the weekend was spent further painting, cleaning and general spritzing up of our new place (YAY for fresh flowers!). We made book cases out of the drawers and slats from my old IKEA bed (hmmm, they don’t seem to be selling it anymore). It’s so much fun putting this place together! It’s, finally, really starting to come together… housewarming party coming soon!

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Via Holy Cuteness

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I would have liked to have posted yesterday, but instead I finished cleaning up and cleaning out our old apartment. No AC in that place anymore, blah!

Anyways, as I said, Jack and I took a week-long trip to the West Coast! It was so much fun and was a pretty big deal for me since I hadn’t ever left the East Coast before! First we did a little business related stuff in Portland, flew down to Sacramento (big hug for Liz and Oman) and then finally drove through San Fransisco and on to Jack’s old stomping grounds, Santa Cruz. I got to meet Jack’s family (loved them!), get great thrifting/shopping on (pics of that later), hug a redwood, poked around the UCSC campus (go slugs!), see some serious fog, and put my feet in the Pacific (COLD!). It was busy, busy, busy and go, go, go, but we still didn’t get to do all that we wanted. Next time we will have to stay longer!

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I realized, after I left, that I didn’t put up any kind of we’re-going-on-vacation hiatus notice. Sorry about that. Anyway, we’re back from our whirl-wind trip on the West Coast and I’m still so freakin’ tired… but in the best way possible! Pictures and more details coming soon!

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For tomorrow, we move! We shall officially now be Upper East Siders!

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Finally got over my laziness and got my pictures off my camera from this weekend. We took two tours: One was a ferry tour around Manhattan Island, which, although it took three hours and my face was burning by the end, was a really interesting trip. Did you know there are completely undeveloped areas of forest at the Northernmost tip? I didn’t! Second was a fantastic walking tour through the Chelsea Market and Meatpacking District. I do love it when people come and visit!

Oh, and as a restaurant recommendation, check out Le Bonne Soupe. Awesome little French place!

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