Forgive me blogger for I have neglected you. It has been 1 month since my last blog. These are my excuses: First excuse, well…after I returned from the holidays in NJ/NY, I had two weeks left of school and have OFFICIALLY completed my MBA! I finally am an MBA graduate! So, that’s a good excuse. Second excuse, a week later was my birthday and I had four friends from the northeast come celebrate with me…we partied like rockstars so I had to recuperate another week after that. That’s a very good excuse! Third excuse, we have been preparing for our move back EAST!
In exactly two weeks I will be ending the chapter of my life in Los Angeles and starting a new series on the east coast. Yes, my dear reader, I will be officially moving back to my beloved New Jersey and the most fabulous city in the world, NYC! Though excited and anxious, I am hoping this will be a FRESH and NEW chapter in my life and not a stale rerun…although I will welcome the constantly humorous and eye-widening episodes that I can only experience with my friends back east…oh yes…we have plenty of “stories” lol. But after being away for almost 3 ½-4 years, I want no more drama, only comedy please!
In exactly two weeks…wow, I can’t believe my west coast life will end. It’s hard to explain the mixed emotions I am currently feeling. I am happy, yet sad. I can’t wait to be home, yet I’m miserable to be leaving this apartment I fell in love with (especially its plus-size storage space). I am motivated to nose-dive into my goals that I plan to fulfill back home, yet scared to leave the comfort zone I created here in La-La-Land. But I do know comfort has to end sometime in order for changes to occur and lives to flourish… and in my case…these will be positive changes. I’ve relaxed and chilled long enough here in Cali...I have already started to flake on people and say “cah-fee” instead of “caw-fee”. It’s time to get my East Coast mojo back. I am convinced that if I just keep repeating that to myself…East Coast mojo, East Coast mojo…I will feel better about leaving.
Because most of the objects in my apartment are mine, I unfortunately had to be the bearer of bad work, and that is packing. I HATE packing. I am a bad packer. I absolutely would rather watch shark week on Discovery than effin’ pack and those that know me know I am absolutely petrified and hateful toward sharks. So to ease this dirty job, I started to pack two weeks ago. Each morning I have been packing a few things here & there.
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| My fabulous wall-to-wall closets once held my clothes, now it holds boxes :( |
I have been sweet talking my way around Target and asking for their boxes and wrapping paper for free, luckily stock boys are mostly that: boys. Little by little the apartment is becoming an empty pallet. I have been documenting the interior design that only this rental apartment will allow, but it’s a design that I am still proud of and still plan to reveal. Next weekend (our final weekend) we are having a yard sale which I am hoping to make some extra cash…maybe those guys from American Pickers will stop by…haha, who am I kidding…most of my things are from West Elm & Ikea.
What I am really excited about is that we are planning to drive cross country…LA to NY, there cannot be a better road trip than that! I slowly talked D into making this drive into an adventure. He had done the drive three times before so he just wanted to take the shortest & quickest route possible. But there is no way I am not NOT going to take advantage of this drive. This will be my first time ever driving cross country and most people know it’s a trip of a lifetime. So I headed to Borders, took advantage of their store closing sale & purchased Off the Beaten Path by Reader’s Digest. It’s “a travel guide to more than 1,000 scenic and interesting places still uncrowded and inviting.” Oh yea, those words talked me into shelling out some dough for this beautiful hard cover book that is way too big to carry around with me. But, at least it will look nice as a coffee book when this trip is done. I also pulled out my Haunted Places book about “ghostly abodes, sacred sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations.” How can I NOT visit a haunted site!?
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| My Roadtrip Guidebooks |
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| Looking for hotel deals on Expedia...hmm, I think that NY ad is a good sign! |
With those books together (along with expedia.com), I am hopefully collaborating a clever, well-prepared, and low-cost adventure that should be made into a documentary…and boy, do I plan on filming and photographing! Hopefully, D & I won’t kill each other during this road trip so that I will be able to really make this trip into a documentary…although drama does make good TV :)
So until then, I will be preparing for this trip and my big move. I will be saying a tearful goodbye to LA.
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| Sunset Photo taken from Griffith Park |
And as the sun sets on the West Coast…slowly it is rising in the East…
