Buying your first house is a huge deal. If you’ve found yourself here because you’re on the verge and ready to dive into home ownership, congrats! It’s a major decision, but one that’s so rewarding and financially practical to boot. Our latest move to Long Island is our second time buying a house, the first time being several years ago when we lived in Florida. They were two very different experiences, but between them I’ve learned a lot about what…
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks around here, and a lot has changed since my last post. Namely, our zip code. We moved! Our new home is in Island Park, a coastal little town in southern Long Island about half a mile from the Atlantic Ocean. We’ve been officially living here for just over a week now and it feels great. Living in New York City was an awesome experience. The culture, the people, the hustle and bustle, the…
One of my best friends recently tied the knot, and he did it on a seven-night Western Caribbean cruise. Talk about getting married in paradise! I’ve never been on a cruise ship in my life, so although I was obviously overjoyed for my friend and his partner, I have to admit I was nervous about how the whole thing would go down. For starters, I usually get super anxious when I’m cooped up anywhere for too long. I worried that…
Since John and I have been together we’ve moved six times, three of those times across state lines. Every time, as we’re loading up the boxes, I step back and wonder, “how do we have so much?” With every move we sell, donate or trash the things we don’t really need, and yet every time, there’s so. much. stuff. My mom’s garage still holds about 10 boxes of our crap that we couldn’t bring with us on our most recent…
I’ve lived in New York for 18 months now and the time has flown by. Our lease on our apartment in our West Harlem neighborhood is about to be up and we’re figuring out our next move, which makes me think back to when we were deciding where to live in the first place. Moving to New York City is daunting. Especially if you’re coming in without a neighborhood in mind or any real knowledge of the city like we…
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about my career. If you’re new around here, I own my own marketing consulting company, which I started in February of 2015. I can’t believe it’s been that long already. What’s crazy is that this is the longest job I’ve ever held; before starting my own thing, I never made it past two years at any one place (sometimes by choice, sometimes otherwise). What’s been on my mind lately is what…
When John and I started thinking about where we might want to go on our honeymoon, we had a few criteria we wanted to hit: Somewhere warm, since our wedding was in the middle of winter Somewhere we wouldn’t normally be able to just pack up and go Somewhere that wouldn’t take an insanely long flight to get to Somewhere relatively affordable After doing some research (aka me listening to John read off posts from Lonely Planet), we narrowed it…