DailyFreakOut

After 4 months, and 5 days I am heading back to NY/NJ for a 15 day visit. I am looking forward to getting rid of my New York apartment, and being a real resident of Los Angeles. 

At 30, I have finally taken everything I have and did what I have always wanted to do. I moved cross country. A move, if you have been reading this blog, you know I have wanted to do this since I could talk. This move has been something I have been dreading and hoping for my entire life.  Finally after years of guilt to stay in the Northeast from my mom, I have decided there is no holding me back anymore. I cannot and will not live my dream because of my mom. That being said, I have never been happier. I really know this move was the best thing I could have done. I, of course, would have loved to come sooner, but I do think things happen for a reason. I am a point in my life where I was finally able to make with move since I am on unemployment I have a very small income, but money nonetheless.

My mom has always quilted me to stay close to home. I have done my best to make her happy. A very wise man once told me if I came out to LA for college which was my plan, I would most likely have returned to NJ at some point. Now, moving out to LA at 30, there is little to no chance you will ever return. I am sure my mom never looked at it this way. All she could see is what she wanted, and that was for her only child to stay home. I agree with this wise man, and know in my heart I will never live I the Northeast again.

I have about 3 more hours in this nearly 5 hour flight. I am shocked the flight is not delayed or in fact canceled. There was a bad snow storm last night with over a foot of snow according to everyone I know, really how accurate is that? Regardless it sounds like the worse storm since I was a junior in high school. We were off from school for nearly a week. You could not get out of the house literally. I will never forget that storm. I find it hard to believe the storm of ’09 will hold a candle to the storm of ’96. I can’t believe it, but that storm was 14 years ago! That shows how often it snows badly in the NJ/NY area. Everyone was making it seem like the world was coming to an end, SNOW, and so early in the season. It’s technically not even winter yet.  If I was not happy, and thankful I made the move before, I am certainly am now. I thought I would never have to deal with the snow and sleet again. I thought, or hoped for a warmer December, and let the colder, bone chilling temps hit when I am happily back in the 70 temps of LA. Sadly this is not the case, and NJ has already seen very low temps. I better get used to the cold temps fast or this is going to be a long, dreadful 15 days.  

I am looking forward to seeing my mom, and Whitney who are picking me up from the airport. I am super excited to see my friends both Jens, the little girls, finally meeting little Brendon, my friends from the years.  I am looking forward to a happy fun, home coming. I can’t wait to get off this plane, and starting my NY get away. I am going to take every moment in since I am going to do my best never return to NJ again during the holiday season. It’s way too cold and stressful for this California girl.  

I will be back in the NY area in 16 days. I can’t believe how fast the time has flown. By the time I head back east I will have lived in LA for 4 months.  I really am happy here. I feel like everything seems to falling into place between my fabulous apartment, friends, and loving LA. Everything is great. I am very happy I finally made the move. It’s funny how in a little amount of time I know this was a great move for me.  I was freaking out when I landed, wondering what the heck I did. It only took me a few weeks to realize, change my life for the better. While I miss my friends, and family I feel at home here. I always knew this was where I wanted to be. It just took a little while to get here.

I have a lot to do in NY. I need to finish selling my stuff in my apartment including my bed, frame, entertainment center, kitchen table and other odds and ends. I need to clean the apartment to hand in my keys to the management company. I need to see all my awesome NY friends as well as my NJ friends. I am looking forward to finally meeting the newest addition to my friends family, little Brendan. I am so excited to see everyone! I hope seeing everyone doesn’t make me miss them more when I come back to my new life in LA.  I am equally excited to get some home cooking!!

Our juicy turkey right before we ate it

Thanksgiving has always been my least favorite holiday since I was a child. It was never a holiday I ever looked forward to, either because I had to decide between spending it with my mom and dad or going to a random’s house since we have very little family. I have always disliked the holiday. This year was different. For the first time I can I ever remember, I had a great Thanksgiving! I would say the best Thanksgiving I could ever remember. I was nervous about the holiday since I was away from NJ, but figured how much worse could it be? My Thanksgivings have always sucked. There was no way this year could be any worse. As long as I didn’t end up at the bar alone, depressed, it was a good holiday. By gosh darn, it was a fabulous holiday!

The longer I am in LA the more things are just falling into place so perfectly. I am dating a fabulous guy, (to know me, I didn’t ever date in NY, so dating someone is shocking in itself), learning a lot about myself, and growing (I hope) into a better more active person.

Thanksgiving the guy I am dating and I cooked a full Thanksgiving meal beginning with pumpkin pancakes and ending the day with Oreo truffles.  We made an amazing, mouth watering turkey, sides that where out o f this world. The best mash potatoes I have ever had. We cooked all day, and night literally. We didn’t sit down to eat until 2:30am to the most fabulous meal ever. We went into the day very relaxed, and took our time to make sure everything was right. While it took hours to get done, some points where stressful, and painful, we had the most amazing meal you can imagine. We did it ourselves. I was so proud of us!

I am so thankful for so many things, mostly for transiting so well to my new home. I am so happy I finally am living my dream! 

I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was as awesome as mine!

Less than One Month to the official move out of NYC, and I am starting to FREAK OUT!  

I have been posting my items on Craig’s list to sell for 2 months. Finally last week I sold a large item, my sofa is GONE! I have my table with stools, entertainment center and my bed left to go, plus other odds and ends. I am trying to strategically figure out how to unload my stuff easily and efficiently so I can get the most money, get rid of my things, and not stress! I have a lot of people to see, and things to do when I am home. I want to spend as little time on the apartment as possible, fingers crossed I am able to do this!

My entire life I have avoided fruits and most vegetables. In the past 5 years I have started to try veggies more and more. I know I love Brussels sprouts, broccoli and asparagus. I will try nearly any veggie now. I just love the different textures and tastes. I have already been reluctant to fruits. I remember trying a few fruits as a child. As for most children, (I think) I didn’t love fruit.  I had strawberries once at 8, made a face and never tried them again. That was until recently. I have tried many fruits while living in Los Angeles including strawberries, raspberries, plums, apples, oranges.

I cannot believe I have lived my entire life without eating the delightfulness of the Strawberry.  While this is shocking to some, I know I was a very picky eater. I know my mom did her best to make me eat healthy and sometimes just wanted to me to eat healthy or not. I can’t blame her after working a long day who wants to fight with a brat?

From here on out, I will be making more of an effort to eat healthy, with fruits, veggies and trying new things, I will not wait to try anything. I am ready to explore everything I have held back on!

I have been sitting on my lease for my New York apartment for almost 2 months. Time has flown, as always seems to do. I have known I was never going to keep the apartment, but still found it hard to sign the line saying I was not staying.

In a final attempt to try and keep the “apartment in the family”, I suggested Jen take over the apartment. That attempt failed.

Today, I signed the dotted line, that I have been dreading. I signed the line ending an era. I have officially given my amazing, fabulous rent stabilized Upper East Side Apartment up. I have never had such a hard time signing a piece of paper in my life.

I have never been happier in Los Angeles, but it’s still hard to give up my apartment. It’s ending nearly 5 years of living in the greatest city in the world. It’s about me officially moving on, and really living cross country from my friends and family. It’s about change.  This makes my move to LA final. I am staying here, happily!

While this is the end of an era, I look forward to what lies ahead. My Upper East Side apartment will always hold an important spot in my heart. After all, it was my first apartment I lived by myself. I have had many memories there good, bad, and ugly. I have learned a lot in this apartment, but it is time to move on.  I am thankful for the time I have had there, and am very excited to be a full fledged LA resident.  

Since living in Los Angeles, I have been texting a lot more than I had before, most likely do to my new phone plan. I am a full supporter of bringing back vocal communication, and do my best to call people.

My biggest pet peeve right now, is when you CALL someone and they text you back. If you wanted to have a text conversation, I would have texted you to begin with. I took the time to call you, to speak to you, please give me the common courtesy, and return my call. Please do not text me back. There is a very good chance I wanted to speak to you about something not easily communicated through text messaging. Please take the time of out your busy day, and return my call. Please do not use text messaging to avoid me thinking if we text I won’t find out what is going on. I am smarter than that. Man up.

My second biggest pet peeve right now, is when your calls and text messages are not turned at all. Once again I took the time out of my day to call you either back, to check in or ask you a question, please call me back in a timely manner. Clearly there was a reason I wanted to get in touch with you. While I do understand, phone calls can take more time then texting, please give me the courtesy of returning my call.

Since texting has become the lazy man’s way of communicating, when you get a text message, please respond in a timely manner. We all know texting takes all of 5 minutes. Please do not leave me hanging for hours.  I would also like to get on with my day, and figure things out.

Thank you in advance doing your best to improve.