Moving Day

I have been absent for a week from the blogosphere, so where have I been? Living it up in some exotic locale or under such heavy stress from my non-existent job. No...I traveled this past weekend back to NY/LI for one last trip to see my lovely Mel and to finish her pack up the apartment for moving day.

I got in on Saturday morning taking the "What If I have a Job" Red-Eye and realizing that next time I am just booking a flight that works best for me and not my non-employer. From Saturday through Sunday, Mel and I spent time together and celebrated our Eight Years of being together (That would be today for all you anniversary freaks, myself included!) Originally I was going to go back on Sunday night, but with no job and only a doctor's appointment on my To Do list, I changed my flight to stay through Tuesday. Best thing I could have ever done.

You see, Tuesday was moving day. Now this was my first ever true move. I moved into different campus apartments in college, but they came furnished and all I needed to do was load up the car with my personal effects. When I moved in with Mel, I was just moving my personal stuff for the most part as she had lived in the apartment for about a year and a half prior. This was the first time that I had a major assortment of owned furniture and items to move. I will say that the move went super smoothly and the only reason it did so is because my amazing and wonderful wife spent so much time over the past month and a half packing and getting things ready while I job searched and live a Californian life. Without her, it would have been disastrous and for that I am so grateful.

On Tuesday morning, the movers arrived and began packing all of our life possessions into a frakking huge 18-wheeler. It was very weird seeing everything that you own taken by someone else and packed away. All the memories and experiences just packed up into a truck and shipped off. It was oddly enough a very emotionally draining experience. But now all of our stuff is on the road and by the end of next week, it all should arrive here in Cali. That being said, I have adjusted very well to only having one chair, a foot table, a TV, and an air bed. Now I am going to have to figure how to put everything that we own into this apartment. While I actually think that this place can hold more and is a little more spacious than our place in LI, it will be strange and I have adjusted myself to the simple life I am now living in. That will definitely be an interesting experience.

As you can guess, I am now back out west and very happy to be here. I will go back one more time in three weeks for the wedding of one of my great friends and my sister's graduation. Speaking of which, my sister got into grad school at Columbia and is being awarded with an honor for being the best student in her under-grad program. So that is all wonderful and great news. I tried to convince her to come out west, but maybe for the sake of our sibling relationship, it's best we stay coasts apart!!

In job search news, had another interview this week and all other offers are still potentially on the table. Should hear something next week, but then again I say that every week. But as of now, there haven't been any no's. That my friends is a very good thing.

Alright....so moving day is done and now Cali life begins again in full swing. I will blog again this weekend with a two-month recap and fill you in with some more info. Have a great weekend and I will blog with you soon!

-Nice Guy SMA-