5 Months Later? Pshhhh...

So here we are. 3 months in. I’ve done such an awful job in keeping up with this. Writing is something that I’ve done all the time, and for some reason I just stopped. But I’m back, I’m so back and going to update all more often! So where in the world do I begin, dang ok let’s go back to the end of September…

I moved down on Sunday Sept. 18th, had about 6 interviews during the week, and had a fulltime job the following Sunday. Who gets luck like that, honestly? I am thankful everyday because I know that there are people here for months upon months looking for work. It is just a hosting gig at a restaurant called Jack the Horse Tavern in Brooklyn Heights. It’s a cute little neighborhood almost too picturesque with the trees and people in their sweaters and nannies walking their children around. Although it may be quite boring sometimes, if I’m not seating people I’m just kind of standing there. But the pay is good, I get a free awesome meal out of it, and a staff drinks after work, so it all evens out in the end. The people I work with are cool too, so it will do for now. It’s also a place that I would never be able to eat at. The hamburger 16 bucks and the hanger steak is 26 dollars. But it is a good place to learn about the upscale sides of restaurants.

Where do I live one might ask? Well when I moved up I was staying with Fiona in the loft that she was sub leasing. The apartment was right on the water, on the roof the Williamsburg bridge was to your left and the skyline of New York was just simply amazing. It was in a part of Brooklyn called Williamsburg where lots of the artists and hipster kids like to live. The bars and restaurants are really cool, but super expensive. Things at the loft were getting crowed, so we were looking to get out of there ASAP. We also decided to room with another girl that was living in the loft at the time too, Kaitlyn. We found a place, got the keys October 8th, rented a Uhaul van, moved all of our stuff that night, returned the van, and ended the night at about 3 am, but we didn’t care because we had our own place. It’s a walk up and of course we’re on the 4th floor. It’s a 3/1 and we love it. It’s in a part of Brooklyn called BedStuy and it’s only about 2 miles from the last apartment that we were in. Everything is really close: train stop is 2 blocks away, grocery store is about 1 and a half, and laundry is 2 blocks in the other direction. Plus we’ve already making our mark in a local bar. So this is where I’ll be for a year, everyone should come on down and say hey!

On that note, we own nothing. Meaning that we have kitchen stuff, things of our own possession, but otherwise we’ve got nothing. The living room and kitchen are empty. I’m sitting on the floor of the room that will hopefully one day hold a couch and table. Maybe if we’re lucky even a TV someday. It has it’s up and down sides. Up side: always a dance party, what else would you do with a big room, speakers, and sometimes kids that have been drinking? Dance of course that’s the right answer. Downside: Can’t really invite people over for dinner or to hang out because we’d have to ask them to eat on the floor and hanging out would pretty much include us sitting on the floor playing cards. We don’t mind for the time being, but sooner or later we’re going to make lots of friends and we like throwing parties. So we’re working on it.
Other things that have been happening; Caitlin, Kim, and Pam came and visited me for a weekend back in November which was loads of fun. We walked the Brooklyn Bridge, they got to see where I work and we had an amazing assortment of appetizers and cocktails thanks to the amazing manager there. We did Times Square, shopping in Chinatown, and then their final dinner in Little Italy. It was Kim’s first time there so everything was so awesome to her.

I spent this past Thanksgiving with my extended family in upstate New York, the Murphy’s and Pineda’s. They were so awesome in making me welcomed and pretty much fed me until I couldn’t even think about food again. It was nice being in a homey setting and around a bunch of people that loved me, we did some shopping (I now have everything I will need for these ‘winters’ they keep talking about haha.) and then ate some more. I don’t think my stomach was use to that much food being offered to me, but I’m not complaining.

This was also the first year that I was away from my family for my birthday (Dang 24, what’s up with that?) It was weird for sure, but we talked on the phone of course and I got a lovely card, but the thing that I thought was bizarre was that I didn’t have a cake. Cause cakes are the official staple of special days, it’s all good Bridget and the gang put two candles in a brownie when I was with them and sang me Happy Birthday (‘Hey look how red she’s getting’ my cousin’s wife when they started singing. I was surprised and touched.)

I think that’s it? We’re going into the city town, hopefully, to do some dancing so that’s fun. Also I’m making gluten free BBQ chicken pizza, so that’s something else to be looking forward too.

I want to know what everyone I doing! I talk to a decent hand full of you and love every second of it, makes this being a million miles away a lot better. Call/text/facebook/ whatevers, know that I think about so many of you often and send out happy thoughts all the time.

In a new segment called “Wedding News” some good friends from high school are getting married next year! Shane and his lovely fiancé Mary-Katherine (who I have yet to meet but can’t wait too) and then Erin and Nick! It’s all so exciting and I couldn’t be more happy for all of these kids, they deserve nothing but happiness and good times :)

So there it is. Again I’m going to try real hard to keep up with this so that when I go a year from now and see what I was doing, I can laugh and remember when it all started.

Happiness is owning not one but TWO pairs of boots. Turns out my short legs look real good in them.
Love me like I love knowing that no matter what I decide to do in live my parents and sisters are right there. Always and forever :)