holy shit we moved again....
i know it has been months since my last post...and i am always promising myself i will be consistent...but whatever...here i am and we live in park slope now.
sometime after my last post, another crisis hit, and we found ourselves packing again. sometimes, i think our only real goal in life is to experience as many realities as possible, all the while trying to keep our sanity and financial situation in tact.
so here we are. it went something like this:
1. convince friends and family that we aren't totally crazy.
2. find renters for our beautiful house and pretend it had no emotional effect.
3. find an apartment in park slope and pretend it had no financial effect.
4. go through another marathon of getting rid of things you don't need.
5. clean your heart out to make sure the house is ready for the new renters all the while wishing that someone was doing that for you in your new place, but knowing that wouldn't be the case.
6. rent a uhaul and drive north, singing sinatra's new york, new york.
7. unload the uhaul on the hottest day of the year. add a couple flights of stairs for extra pain.
8. sit in your apartment at 2am in a corner overlooking the piles of boxes while your sweet family sleeps and think, "holy fucking hell, what did we just do?"
and now it is three weeks later and sometime in the middle of the night and i am eating some chicken from two boots - a little cajun pizzeria around the corner that we have fallen in love with that has the most amazing, hearty meals (and very good pizza too). they give the kids pizza dough to play with and so that is basically all we need for now at this point in our lives.
it is wonderful wonderful wonderful to be back in the city again. i love having everything right at our doorstep and all the people in between. the dust from moving is settling and we are anxious to get back to living and exploring. there is something new to see everyday, and that is what has always been interesting about moving so much. and here i get the feeling it will take awhile to exhaust that benefit.
if you are still reading, i hope you are doing well. if you aren't still reading, i hope you are doing well too. big kisses from mama jens and hopefully i will get my shit together and post more in the coming days.
sometime after my last post, another crisis hit, and we found ourselves packing again. sometimes, i think our only real goal in life is to experience as many realities as possible, all the while trying to keep our sanity and financial situation in tact.
so here we are. it went something like this:
1. convince friends and family that we aren't totally crazy.
2. find renters for our beautiful house and pretend it had no emotional effect.
3. find an apartment in park slope and pretend it had no financial effect.
4. go through another marathon of getting rid of things you don't need.
5. clean your heart out to make sure the house is ready for the new renters all the while wishing that someone was doing that for you in your new place, but knowing that wouldn't be the case.
6. rent a uhaul and drive north, singing sinatra's new york, new york.
7. unload the uhaul on the hottest day of the year. add a couple flights of stairs for extra pain.
8. sit in your apartment at 2am in a corner overlooking the piles of boxes while your sweet family sleeps and think, "holy fucking hell, what did we just do?"
and now it is three weeks later and sometime in the middle of the night and i am eating some chicken from two boots - a little cajun pizzeria around the corner that we have fallen in love with that has the most amazing, hearty meals (and very good pizza too). they give the kids pizza dough to play with and so that is basically all we need for now at this point in our lives.
it is wonderful wonderful wonderful to be back in the city again. i love having everything right at our doorstep and all the people in between. the dust from moving is settling and we are anxious to get back to living and exploring. there is something new to see everyday, and that is what has always been interesting about moving so much. and here i get the feeling it will take awhile to exhaust that benefit.
if you are still reading, i hope you are doing well. if you aren't still reading, i hope you are doing well too. big kisses from mama jens and hopefully i will get my shit together and post more in the coming days.
posted by mama jens at 5:43 AM
2 Comments:
Sounds like you made the right decision to me! Have fun exploring! And let us know, how it goes...
katja, thanks for your comment. i am so glad to see that you have still been checking in despite the infrequent postings. love and kisses, mama jens
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