Once upon a time, Hubs and I decided we wanted to move north. To be closer to family, friends and just out of the beltway.
Well, after abruptly losing my temp-perm job on our honeymoon, I decided I wanted to pursue my teaching certification in CT. Hubs started looking for a job up in CT solely, and our mission to move north (Formerly known as “Mission: Slingshot“) , went into action.
Wellp, last Tuesday Hubs got a call, followed by a phone interview, followed by an interview, followed by an offer while on the road to Vermont on Saturday, and then acceptance of the offer Monday after some negotiations.
Tuesday he started work in Stamford.
Friday we signed a lease.
We move in two weeks.
TWO WEEKS! I’m beyond thrilled, and excited for our new life. While dealing with all these emotions, I’m dealing with an immense sadness. It took me a while to make some really great friends here in DC. We got married here, not so long ago, we met here, and home? While a mess, is comfortable.
The past week and half has been spent looking at least four apartments a day, writing wedding thank you notes, planning, applying to grad school and today? Making a plan for moving logistics.
I’m excited for our new apartment though, it’s a two bedroom with significantly more space than what we have now, lots of closets, two parking spots (yessss for not having to park on the street anymore! Hellllllooooo lower car insurance!), a nice kitchen, no yard, but laundry in the unit. We’re going slightly over our budget for what we wanted to spend, but the other apartment we were seriously considering was smaller, not nearly as nice and only about $100 cheaper. For a one bedroom. Oh yeah, and that one bedroom apartment? Had Electric EVERYTHING – including heating…the neighbor we met? Said last winter he spent close to $300 for ONE MONTH! Yikes. That? Was not in our budget.
But we’re really excited about the new apartment. I’m excited about hopefully getting into grad school and about finding a new part time job up there for the holiday season.
In other news, I will post this afternoon (sorry it’s late!) the winners to my Fitness Magazine giveaway. For now? Target run for packing needs, and boxes. Need boxes. *sigh*
P.S. Any CT bloggers out there???
