We just received news from our immigration lawyer that David has been approved for a permanent PERMANENT RESIDENCY (green card) !!!xoxo
5.18.2009
HOORAY!!!
We just received news from our immigration lawyer that David has been approved for a permanent PERMANENT RESIDENCY (green card) !!!xoxo
5.15.2009
Behold, our new hobby!
During the gray, wintry days of Berlin, David decided that we would buy mountain bikes when we returned to New York and the weather turned spring. David has researched mountain bikes voraciously -- if not impressively and obsessively -- for the last few months. And voila! Earlier this week, all his detailed and thorough research paid off and he bought us bikes! I am still a novice mountain biker, but I have aspirations. Apparently there are mountain bike trails around Manhattan and the outer boroughs. We have already ridden up and down the Westside Highway bike/roller-blade path, and, I must say, the bikes are super duper awesome.
With any luck I could be a hard-bodied mountain biker... real tough-like, but hopefully not butch. First, I will need to get outfits to fit the part, of course.
5.06.2009
WE (heart) NEW YORK CITY
David and I are FINALLY back home in New York!
This has been the longest stretch of time that we have been away from home. David is thrilled to be in NYC, in our apartment, as I am, too -- although I think I am also a little shell-shocked. It's odd to be home after being away for so long, after having made temporary homes in not one but TWO different apartments (one in Berlin, the other in London). I feel a bit like a stranger with a severe case of de ja vu being back in our apartment. A whole series of, "Where is the...?" and "Where did I use to...?" and "Where did this go again??" Strange. New York changes quickly and often. Our gym closed on the day we returned! We received an email about it -- it felt like being broken up with by text message. Luckily there is another gym/health club just down the block, so today we promptly marched over there and became members.
We're still getting organized back home - I expect this process will take some time. Unpacking, organizing, cleaning, reacclimatizing... it's a little daunting for me, but David is so happy and energized about being home, looking forward to what we'd do now we're here (he has big plans on buying us mountain bikes), I hope to get back on the New York City track soon. Despite my sense of having SO MUCH TO DO, I am, indeed, happy to be back in our own bed, to have access to my whole wardrobe, to have our NYC friends close, and to be in NYC.
This has been the longest stretch of time that we have been away from home. David is thrilled to be in NYC, in our apartment, as I am, too -- although I think I am also a little shell-shocked. It's odd to be home after being away for so long, after having made temporary homes in not one but TWO different apartments (one in Berlin, the other in London). I feel a bit like a stranger with a severe case of de ja vu being back in our apartment. A whole series of, "Where is the...?" and "Where did I use to...?" and "Where did this go again??" Strange. New York changes quickly and often. Our gym closed on the day we returned! We received an email about it -- it felt like being broken up with by text message. Luckily there is another gym/health club just down the block, so today we promptly marched over there and became members.
We're still getting organized back home - I expect this process will take some time. Unpacking, organizing, cleaning, reacclimatizing... it's a little daunting for me, but David is so happy and energized about being home, looking forward to what we'd do now we're here (he has big plans on buying us mountain bikes), I hope to get back on the New York City track soon. Despite my sense of having SO MUCH TO DO, I am, indeed, happy to be back in our own bed, to have access to my whole wardrobe, to have our NYC friends close, and to be in NYC.
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