Final Countdown: Update

Somewhere in the midst of quitting my job, packing up my apartment, completing a midterm, and saying aloha to a million people, things, and cheeseburger joints it dawned on me that I have approximately two more days in NYC. Well to be honest, two more days now and maybe two more days later this month and that in all likelihood I will not be able to complete my NYC bucket list which consists of (in no particular order):

1) Ride on a double decker tour bus
2) Eat at Esca, Gotham Bar and Grill, and Per Se
3) Spend an afternoon at the Natural History Museum
4) Ride on the Circle Line
5) Take the Water Taxi to the Water Taxi Beach
6) Visit the Tenement Museum

But instead of getting upset or trying to cram it all in- I've also been looking back at the amazing things I have done here in the past two years, which include (in no particular order)

1) Go to both the Regional and National Air Guitar Championships and manage to get on stage at both events.
2) Ride a boat around the tip of Manhattan dressed as a pirate
3) Go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
4) Experience New Year's Eve "near" Times Square
5) Spent many an evening with friends dancing and possibly kissing someone in various bars
6) Had Mike Myers make fun of me
7) Sat next to Jake Gyllenhal
8) Seen Dolly Parton at Radio City Music Hall
9) Gone to Parsons
10) Lived on a great street in the West Village
11) Listened to the other end of many a conversation with Lenny Kravitz
12) Made really amazing friends and eaten at many amazing restaurants
13) Eaten sugar fries at Florent
14) Sunbathed at the Christopher Street pier
15) Walked the length of Central Park
16) Figured out the subway system for the most part
17) Found my inner compass for city directions (found my inner compass in life, hmmm...probably not yet, but getting closer)
18) Been bowling in Queens on numerous occasions
19) Worked in publishing
20) Worked a real job for longer than I ever have before
21) Watched Chinese musicians and dancers almost every morning for a summer in Sunset Park
22) Been VIP at She and Him

Whew- and this is just the short list of so many amazing experiences I have had, which makes me smile on the inside, feel a bit sleepy and happy to go back to a calmer life, something I think I'm going to celebrate tonight with one of my favorite things to do in NYC: walk to the Union Square movie theater, get a box of Nachos with cheese and a big Coke and watch a movie I may or may not be interested in- all by myself.

NYC: The Final Countdown

Let's Blog it Out is moving locations! That's right folks, I have up and quit my job and I'm moving back to the fair city of Charlottesville, Virginia where I have already lived twice before (from 1999-2002 and 8 brief months in 2003, respectively).

Why did New York and I break up? I'm not really sure what happened. It was one of those break-ups that occur without warning but you know are oh so right. I'll probably talk more about that in later posts when I gather some distance from my heartbreak.

So what can you, the five readers, expect from Let's Blog it Out in the future? Since I haven't lived in Charlottesville since I was but a wee 23, I can only tell you from past experience that you will be won over by posts about: making out on bikes! drinking in horse pastures in your debutante dress! dance parties in the dirty basements of sushi restaurants! pretentious tea drinking! and congestion driving!

While the future of Let's Blog it Out will probably contain 100% less posts about homeless men peeing on the street and subway traffic, I, your faithful author, will do my best to make sure that LBIO (whew that was long) will maintain it's maximum level of awesomeness no matter what.

Now I'm off to write my New York City bucket list. Stay tuned.

Daisy