Manhattan to Brooklyn

bye Upper West Side

Today makes one week that we've been in our new apartment. Back to Brooklyn as we've been saying. Spanish Guy is super happy about the move. Being raised in the mountains, he wanted a little more peace and quiet, so we moved to a residential area of Brooklyn. But my restless soul craves the big city life. I loved just walking out of my building and being in the center of it all, and you can't get better than having Central Park a few steps away, but we gave all that up. I guess thats what you do when you're married. We gave all that up for a fully-renovated, quiet, beautiful, extremely large apartment in a charming Brooklyn Neighborhood. I guess it's not that bad, and I have to remember it was an intentional choice, we weren't forced into it, so hopefully I just need some time to adjust...

we'll see.

It's been crazy ordering new furniture, getting cable and internet installed, I don't know how anyone with a strict full-time job would be able to manage this, because it's been a lot of missed days of work for me in order to wait for deliveries and etc. Luckily my job is extremely flexible and doesn't mind if I work from home, so here I am right now waiting for our new couch to arrive from Crate and Barrel! :D

our new living area

our first dinner on our old dinning bistro table

It's been nice so far, having nothing to do, but cook, shower and chit-chat, without any other distractions and without lots of external stimulation. When we were in Manhattan I used to get home from work, run in central park, shower, go out for drinks or dinner, walk around, have a gelato, and head home at around midnight, almost every day. Now in Brooklyn, I get home from work a little later (because I'm farther away from work), have a conversation with my husband, cook together, wash dishes, shower and lay down for bed at around 10pm. Our lives have slowed down dramatically. I guess thats what happens when you move from Manhattan to Brooklyn.

You have less time and less access...

But it's only been a week so far, so lets see if this continues.

More soon.