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Walking along the river when I take Thor out is what I’m gonna miss the most by living here. It’s so peaceful and beautiful.

But, Battery Park City is just a big construction site right now. The worst is that they are building a new bridge right by the dog park so people don’t take their dogs there much anymore and you have to walk around all of it to cross the highway to get to the subways. This is supposed to be done next year! And for months, we’ve had buildings around us with ugly scaffolding all around them. It’s good for when it’s raining and you still need to take the dogs out, but people seem to not care to pick up after their dogs when these are up so it’s nasty there, and I notice on Thor that he doesn’t really know where to pee anymore. When the buildings by the water needs scaffolding, they build it on the sidewalk, aka the park, starting over 10 feet away from the building which makes the view not the greatest. By the boats they have more constructions going on, the ice rink is really ugly to look at and further north the different park sites are surrounded by wood walls and machines. The restaurants with outdoor seating that we have along the water is now all covered too which can’t be that good for their businesses when it’s warm and sunny. 

I’ve been sad about leaving this place because of the park, the river and the fact that we know everybody here (or, Thor does). Workers, machines, noises and poop makes it easier for me to be excited to move. Even if Stamford would have equally much construction going on, I don’t care, cause it will be a new place for us to explore. 

Yesterday, we took the bus to Staten Island. I’ve been out there once before with my parents in August, but we took the boat over. The bus ride was pretty quick. On they way there it was packed, but on the way back it was pretty empty in the bus and we could enjoy some Manhattan view:)
When we move we will be in need of a car, so we have been doing research on cars for the past few months. Since it’s President’s Day weekend, we figured car dealers would have some nice prices. So J has been on the phone with dealers all week. One place promised him a specific price including everything and for that reason we thought it would be worth going all the way out to Staten Island. Did they offer that price when we got there? No. Of course not. 
J has been visiting car dealers now for the past hours. He’s on his way home so soon I’m gonna get all the updates. I’ve never had a car before, because I never needed one, so this is all very exciting to me 😀

Picture from last week when we had 17 degrees outside

It’s less than a month until we move to our new apartment! Aah! I don’t wanna wait any longer, I want to start our new lives up there now. But at the same time I really don’t feel ready to leave all this. It kinda changes every five minutes how I feel about it. And spending time with Jeanette the other day, who is the most positive person I know and who is someone who absolutely love this city, it got even harder for me to wanting to leave and move out to the suburbs. But I keep telling myself “change is always good”. 

I have been wanting to start packing for weeks already, but my husband keeps saying no. He has a point. We still live here and we don’t wanna live in a mess for weeks, but I’m just waiting and waiting now and we all know that in the end it will be stressful no matter what. At least I have time now to go through things and throw away stuff we don’t need. Over the years of being married we have collected way too much stuff. I watched the documentary “Minimalism” a month ago and after that I could easily just throw away all of our things. But we are moving to a bigger place, so we actually need more, hahaha. Oh well 🙂 

 

NYC has been waaaaayyyy too cold the past week. We went from +18 degrees to a snowstorm over night a week ago. Crazy!! This week has been around 0°c (32°f) and windy. I don’t hate a lot of things, cause I think “hate” is a strong word, but I really really hate cold weather. Earlier this week, I felt like I was going to die every time I went outside. With two pair of pants and three layers underneath my jacket, I still felt like life was ending.

The weather was a bit nicer yesterday though and is going to be even better this weekend. My friend Jeanette is back in NYC so I went up to Upper West Side to meet her and we went for a long walk in Riverside Park. It was cold, but such a beautiful day. We spent a few hours together catching up on the last 6 months and then I went home to the puppy. Hubby went to a hockey game so I had some red wine and watched Alice through the looking glass.