In the new house

Tonight we will sleep in our bed, on our own mattress.  We are so looking forward to it. It took three guys about 8 hours to pack all of our stuff.  It will take us a lot longer to unpack.  The boxes and furniture arrived on Tuesday.  We spent the next two evenings and all [...]

Too Much Drama

Over dinner and a bottle of wine at the lovely restaurant attached to the Staten Island Hilton Garden Inn, Mr. NYer and I reminisced about the last 26 years and 11 months we spent in one house.  We smiled, laughed and got teary remembering the ghastly decor when we moved in, the collection of neighbors, the [...]

Untethering

Where is my tether? I’m referring, of course, to the cord that attaches my Blackberry to my computer and allows me to have Internet access anywhere.  Once we turn in the cable boxes, we’ll need it.  I can’t find it. This is probably the 10th or 15th item I couldn’t find today.  On the phone, [...]

Getting a Move On …

Yikes — Lifelongnewyorker and Mr. NYer are moving this week! We’ve been trying to nail down a closing date all week and late yesterday–a Friday–we got the word that it’s either this Thursday or in three weeks.  For various reasons we decided that sooner is better than later. But.  Lifelongnewyorker is in Atlanta on business.  Mr. [...]

We Choose a House

The last time Lifelongnewyorker and Mr. NYer bought a house, the decision process wasn’t all that complicated.  We looked at a bunch of houses, no more than eight.  We found one we liked that was really really close to where I worked, and up the block from Mr. NYer’s oldest friend.  We were looking in January, 1983, [...]

The Better Half … of the Bargain

Review time, everyone:  Lifelongnewyorker headed south to start her job two weeks ago and is living all by herself in a sterile apartment complex.  Mr. NYer is about six weeks behind, having stayed on Staten Island to wait for the closing on the house and generally wrap things up.  In the meantime, he’s still working, continuing to clear [...]

D-day minus two

Serious chaos in the house today. There are 18 bags of trash at the curb.  Stuff designated for the Moving Sale occupies one-quarter of the basement.  In the cellar, we chose which basic tools we plan to take and consolidated them into one toolbox and one toolbag.  We don’t plan to buy a house that needs [...]

Countdown: 10 days left

Today was my first day at home.  With the Project done and the holidays over, I can now focus on getting ready to move.  I made a list of things to do that included making some doctors appointments, scheduling the cat for the vets, tying up 2009 paperwork, buying return airline tickets for Mr. NYer [...]

Jitters

I am about to cross the Rubicon.  The point of no return.  The bridges are burning behind us.  We’ve signed a contract to sell the house, and tomorrow is my last day of work on The Project.  As of January 1, 2010, I will be voluntarily unemployed for two weeks.   So I don’t think [...]

Lists, Records and Spare Change

Christmas preparations are no longer an excuse.  Neither, as of Wednesday, will work on The Project.  Even Mr. NYer agrees that it’s time to figure  out the moving thing. Yesterday, with notebook in hand, we walked room to room, making a list of things that needed to be done, most of which included the word [...]