Here's The Deal

Okay, so for a few months I have been dropping "oh NOT so subtle" hints that there were big changes in store for Chizz & I. I have mentioned our empty nest one or two or sixteen times. A change in lives is afoot. Now that Snake is ensconced in his VEPS (Very Expensive Private School) and Kiki fully engaged at her AAEPS (Almost As Expensive Public School), we can make the announcement.  Chizz and I are moving on up!  (to the West* Side, to a New York apartment in the skyyyy!) (sorry. . . .) 

That's right, we are moving to New York City.    Chizz took a new job in New York with his company a few months ago and has been doing the job from the West Coast but since that wasn't the original deal, we are moving.  We wanted to make sure that Snake got settled into college, that we tied up loose ends here, that we spent lots of cash flying back and forth between NY and California a few times and that we paid rent on a NY apartment for a few months before we actually moved.  Now that those things have all been accomplished, we are ready to move.  Almost.  We still have to call the movers and pack up. Minor details. 

We are excited about the move.  We think it will be fun exploring a new city and learning a different way to live.  Let's face it, living in New York is going to be so much different than living in California.  The weather alone will be a challenge.  New York actually has weather.   Living in a 2 bedroom apartment will be an experience.  Not having a car will be interesting.  (After learning it will cost almost as much to house a car as to house Chizz, I had to give up one.  The coin was on Chizz's side. Two out of three times!) 

Yes, living in New York will almost be like living in a foreign country for this West Coast Girl.  In fact I keep coming up with similarities between this move and our move to London.  People speak with an accent - check! Outrageously expensive rents - check!  Large cosmopolitan city with lots of diversity and different cultures - check!  Soooooo, I have decided I will dust off the blog and try to blog on a more regular basis.  But I think I am going to do it from a different perspective, because my perspective now is a bit different.  We are not moving to NY with kids, so we don't have to consider whether there is a good school in our area, if there are activities for the kids to be involved in, where the most kids from their school live, what the kids would like,  we only have to think about what we would like, what will fit in our empty nest.  Our new lifestyle. . .   hmmmmm, something to think about. 

IF

it were your son, your brother, your cousin, your friend, your nephew, your grandson, your neighbor, would you believe Penn State and Joe Paterno had done enough? 

Yeah, didn't think so.