Necessary Unnecessaries

Or are they unnecessary necessaries? Food for thought.

In either case, these things make my eyes light up and my heart go a-flutter. I can rationalize by saying I will use them to wrap presents.

Washi Paper Masking Tape $25.00, Divine Twine $15.00, Martha Stewart Border Punches $15.00, Stitched grosgrain ribbon $.79-$2.98 per yd, Glitter $1.59-$2.59 per bottle.

Back to a New Reality!

Two days before Thanksgiving I bought my first house! The following week was a blur as Abe and I moved to Beacon, NY and began living in "the country".

Moving was grueling and took 2 full days (I run my business out of my home and have A LOT of stuff - I also have a little bit of a hoarding problem). Once the moving was complete, we started to make our daily trips to Lowes, furniture stores, IKEA, Home Depot, Target...and finally we started to unpack.

At least it's a damn fine looking Home Depot. (Note all the snow - first snowfall of the year!)

My parents came to visit Saturday and Sunday and my mom was a huge help in the painting department while my dad did electrical things in the basement. Thanks, Mom and Dad!! The dining room had been a dark red so getting it to a light gray took forever.

On Sunday three of my gal pals - Colleen, Piper and Brooke - came up for a visit, which was awesome! We went out for brunch at the Yankee Clipper diner and sat next to this guy from the reality show American Chopper.

All in all I'd say the adjustment from Brooklyn hasn't been jarring (yet) and pretty much everything has been super exciting!!

I promise to post photos, but I haven't taken many yet because the house is still filled with boxes and Paws is still trying to figure out how to put together the IKEA office chair.

Moving is Always Fun!*

*Not.

Hello from the other side. Abe and I moved Sunday and again on Monday. It's been a grueling move, but at least we now have everything here at the house and can start unpacking! My dad is driving some furniture to us today and this weekend both my mom and dad are coming to bring another load and help set things up.

After a 16 hour day of moving yesterday, Abe and I were back in Beacon at midnight. We were relaxing with a beer (me) and tequila (Abe - we only had 1 beer) while I cleaned the fridge when I realized I needed paper towels from the U-haul truck. I was pulling things out of the truck so Abe came out to help me. We were carrying everything back inside and - oops, the front door is locked. And so are all the windows. So we both in pajamas, in the middle of the night, outside in 40 degree weather and don't know how to get inside. Luckily the former owners left their ladder so Abe climbed up to the roof and was able to break into a window that I left accidentally left unlocked (irresponsible, but soooo lucky I did that).

So today we're changing the locks, hopefully fixing the screen on the window, and absolutely making sure we hide a key somewhere.

I have tons of photos from Ahmad and Erika's wedding, thanksgiving, and the move, but it's going to have to wait until we've unpacked a little bit more.

Woke Up & Bought a House

Today I woke up at 6am, made some coffee, drove up to Beacon, and bought a HOUSE! Yahooo!

It's going to a crazy week ahead, but I'll probably post off and on since we have Thanksgiving, a friend's wedding on Friday, and tonight we'll all going to the Rusty Knot to celebrate my big purchase!

If you're in town c'mon by and dance to the debut DJ performance of Foxtails!

Brooklyn is Better, Brian.

After a few fun-filled months, Brian Ray slipped on back to LA. He'll be back though...he'll miss us too much.

We went to the bar The Woods to celebrate his last night, but we missed the memo that a tour bus was going to be dropping people off for a bar crawl. Since when does this happen in Williamsburg?

We were not interested.

So we ended up at Bar Celona and drank martinis, which was equally strange, but at least they had a fireplace.