All grown up

So....the moment has come. I finally feel like a grown up. Not only do we now have our own apartment but we just bought a couch. An actual, nice couch that we like and that is our style and that is not handed down from anyone or stolen from someone's trash on the street. And I love it. Even though the delivery process was a nightmare since neither of us could be home during the window they told us they would deliver it and my intern Kyle ended up waiting for it at our apartment (which was unbelieveable of him and i'm forever grateful). And apparently we're not the only ones to have a little bit of hate for Jennifer Convertibles...

http://www.realestateabc.com/insights/jenniferfurniture.htm

So hopefully thats not foreshadowing for what we'll have to deal with. But the couch is in now and we love it. And there's a perfect corner of it that butts up against geoff's desk so he can be working and I can be watching TV or reading on the couch and he can still lean over and kiss me. Which is gross to even tell people, but my exuberance over the couch and being a grown up has apparently taken over my common sense. My apologies.

Here it is....but ours is cream.

I MOVED!!!

Well, it finally came. Yesterday I picked up my life and moved it around the corner. I'd been in the same apartment for six and a half years and have finally moved into my own place. Well, it will really be Geoff's and mine too, but we're technically calling it "mine" until we get married in June. I AM SO EXCITED! We found a great (large) one bedroom in Sunnyside Queens, in the same neightborhood I've lived in for those six and half years, just actually around the corner from my old place. We are still a block from the subway but are closer to our favorite restuarants. The living room has enough space for Geoff to have an office and the bedroom has two sets of windows that meet in the corner with enough room for a king sized bed (which is good, since we need one - Geoff is 6'5" after all). I will post some pictures once it's all fixed up, but here are a few from when they were renovating before we moved in (it looks better now). The first is the cool windows in our bedroom and the second is of the new sconces in the living room. So fun!



Also, the best moment of moving day came at the very end. Our friends Jeremy & Megan stayed to help with getting the last few items into the apartment. We'd just finished, it was about 430pm and the four of us were sitting around in our box filled living room. We had one arm chair, a desk chair and two barstools we'd brought in from the kitchen, and i'd just frantically unwrapped a kichen box to pull out a few mugs so that I could get everyone some water. We were sitting there drinking our water when someone knocked on the door. I was so startled that i spilled water all over myself in an effort to get up and get to the door. When I opened it there were three women standing there. One had a full pot of coffee, the other a tray of teacups, saucers, plates, milk (which we found out later was steamed!) and sugar, and the third had a plate of chocolate cake (which we found out later was homemade). They explained that they lived right next door and had seen us moving in all day and was sure we'd had a long day and just wanted to bring something by. They basically came in, droped off manna from heaven, welcomed us and left us alone to enjoy it with our friends. Coffee never tasted so good. It might have been the fine china it was served in, or the exhaustion, or the juxtaposition of all that homemade goodness being served from a box that was doubling as a coffee table, but it was an AMAZING thing, perfectly timed, and I hope, forshadowing of how life will be for us in our new home.

Mark your calendars

We've set the date! Everyone plan on being in Middlebury, CT on the afternoon of Saturday June 14th to see Geoff and I get married. We now have the location, the date, the caterer, our photographer, the videographer and my dress (which i bought on accident with my mom over Thanksgiving. We were just going to "look", but when i tried on this dress, i cried unexpectedly and inexplicably, so i took that as a sign. Especially since I tried it on 4 times and cried 4 times). So I feel like we are pretty well on our way. And now I will do no more wedding planning until January, as December means Christmas, traveling, and moving into a new apartment. And that's enough for me.

Our first wedding appointment - The Caterer

Geoff and I had our very first wedding appointment together. What a surreal moment. It all begins! Michelle was nice. She didn’t have June 14th available and I don't want to have my birthday and the wedding in the same month. I know, it may be slightly ridiculous, and Geoff doesn't get it either, but really, why cram all the celebration into one tiny month? Spread the love, that's what I say. So I don’t know where that leaves us with the Hen of the Woods. But she did say she had a killer recipe for one of my favorite beverages, so that may well win out in the end.

Labor Day at the Cape

We spent Labor Day weekend at the Cape (as we like to do). This time my brother, Clay, joined us and we had a revolving door of friends stop through as well. Clay had recently bought a boat (a motor boat, as he is a man of action) for his contribution to the weekend. My contribution was 8 new wine glasses - 4 red, 4 white- which i LOVE. Can you tell who works for a non-profit? Clay took us out for a boat ride, during which we went so fast we were almost killed. Or at least it felt like that might be an option. I'm more of a sailboat kind of girl myself. We got soaked to the skin and nearly fell in the ocean and that was enough boat riding for me for the weekend. It was so fun to host friends, eat, drink and be merry. We had Liz and Katherine Kannenburg swing by for dinner one night. Liz and Kak's mom and my mom were college roommates and are still very close friends, so the four of us kids kind of grew up together. One of Clay's buddies from West Point also came by for a day or so and had fascinating stories to tell about his life in Hawaii and his time in Iraq before that. He'd been critically injured and the fact that he was there drinking beers and cooking out with us was really truly amazing, given what he'd been through. He's a great guy. Clay also introduced us to a lovely girl named Jenny who lives in Boston and who joined us as well for a day or so and who I think is great fun.


Just before we left I picked some beach plums which grow just below the deck, in hopes that mom and I could make some beach plum jelly - possibly for wedding favors. But that plan failed pretty quickly because not only did Clay forget to put half of them in the freezer after we left but while I was picking them (precariously balanced on a steep hill in the middle of prickly bushes, I might add) Geoff started throwing beach plums at me in an all out assult. Needless to say, then it was ON.


It all went by way too quickly and I wish we could go back and stay for weeks and weeks. Maybe someday our lives will allow us to "summer" at the Cape..... Ok, so clearly I'm not even a person who is in a position to use "summer" as a verb, let alone actually do it. But man, would it be nice....

Nautical Sunday

The first thing people should know about us is that we are old and lame. We mostly like to be at home and since work is so busy for both of us, when we do have a day off on the weekend, we prefer to do little or nothing and still just be together. However, last Sunday we thought to ourselves, "We live in one of the coolest cities in the world. Lets go do stuff in it." So we headed to the South Street Seaport and took a boat tour of NY Harbor. It was a gorgeous day, and we felt very touristy, but in a fun way, not in an annoying way.

The ships at the Seaport were gorgeous and it was really cool to see the skyline and the bridges from the water.




Typical New Yorker that I've become, I've never been to the Statue of Liberty, so it was actually really cool to see it up close. I'm a sucker for history and things that have been around for ages. Its amazing to me to think about all the millions of people that I have never met who have seen the Statue of Liberty though the years. Makes me think about what their lives were like and feel tied to them in some way.


We had a blast on the boat and finished up our day with dinner at an adorable little Italian place where we dined outside and made friends with the waitress. We had an ice cream cone as the sun set on the Seaport and then we headed home in cab, pretty proud of ourselves for having had a fun NYC adventure and for being slightly less lame than we were the day before.

We are GOOD at blogging

Just so we're clear....we are dedicated to blogging. Don't doubt that for a moment. Even when we don't blog for months and months and months at a time. And months.

Just wanted to get that out in the open.

IT BEGINS!

So one day this guy was minding his own business walking down the streets of New York all by his very lonesome and the next he was holding hands with this mysterious captivating beauty. He liked her a lot for a long time but didn’t do anything about it till one day wham bam outta the blue she grabbed his hand!!!

Well this made the guy very nervous and he didn’t know what to do with that so he kept on walking and thinking about many things. Well a long time went by and then one day all of a sudden they were kissing and then all of a sudden they were dating! And it eventually dawned on the guy that this was pretty darn cool and he really liked this girl and her captivatingness quite a bit!

Sooo one day the guy made a video and threw a party and then when everyone was singing happy birthday, the guy was singing, “hey you, ravishing captivating intelligent beauty! Would you marry this guy??” And as fate would have it, the captivating girl was very flush and weepy (not cause of the guy but cause of the martini specials) and so she agreed to sign her life away to the very average guy cause she remembered she liked holding his hand.

And now they’re getting married. And you can too! Join them that is in celebrating their upcoming nuptuals. And we sincerely hope that you do!