Leaving the Big Apple!!

Well everybody, the time is closely approaching when I leave the Big Apple to move to the capital city of Albany. I will be starting my job as a Clinical Dietitian at Albany Medical Center's HIV Clinic on the 2nd (technically the 3rd, since the 2nd is for orrientation). I found a 3BR apartment for $700, which is crazy to me because that's about what I'm paying right now in Brooklyn for a room in an apartment!!!

I'm very happy to be moving upstate as it gets me that much closer to Dana (she only lives about an hour north of Albany) and once I move up there I'll be able to see her every weekend, as opposed to every 2 or 3 weekends!! But I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a little sad to be leaving the big city. Luckily, it's not that far away that I'm going. Albany is only about 3 hours from here on the bus so I am planning on coming back on a pretty regular basis!! And who knows, me and Dana may end up moving back here some day!



So, I thought I'd come up with a list of the things I will miss most and miss least about life in NYC.

What I will miss most about NYC
All the friends I have made here over the past year and a half
The nightlife
The ability to find anything you might ever need
The arts (theatre, ballet, etc)
The gorgeous views from the subways that go over the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges
The way NYC doesn't let you get too wrapped up in yourself, it always has a way of keeping you in check
It's the city that never sleeps, what more do I have to say?!


What I will miss least about NYC
Rude people
Late trains and/or getting to the subway platform right as a train is pulling away
Tourists
Poseurs
Hipsters
Roommates (not that I don't like my roommates, it will just be nice to have my own apartment for once!!)
Loud neighbors
Greyhound buses to see mi amor!!


My next post on this blog will likely be from Albany, so stay tuned!! :)

Destroying Property

Inspired by a post on Dana's blog, I decided to share a similar story of destruction.

When I was young I went through a big crayon phase. Like, BIG. I used to eat red crayons because I thought they tasted like cherries. Umm, yeah.

Anygay, I also went through this phase of needing to write mine, and my families names, everywhere! So, this one day I was in what is now the dining room of my parents house, but at that time was just known at the "Toy Room" and I was lying underneath this old tan card table that my parents had. Red crayon in hand, I proceeded to write all over the underside of this table. Work of art, I'm telling ya! This thing should be in the Smithsonian by now!!

Needless to say, my parents were less than pleased when they realized what I had done. But I think they were also relieved at the same time that at least my artwork was on the underside of the table, where no one else could see it.

Years later, I got my own desk at home to do my school work. (Apparently having a desk at school wasn't enough for my parents, I needed to have one at home as well!) This desk was kinda old, and made out of really soft wood (pine, maybe?) and it was really easy to carve stuff into it. So I did. I would take my pens and protracters, compasses, etc and just have at it with this desk. My parents tried to paint over all my destruction, but that didn't deter me for long. Soon, I was right back at it, picking away at the paint and reclaiming my artistic glory. The desk finally had seen better days and my parents threw it out. They threw out my art!!!

So, that's a glimpse into my furniture destructive days. Nowadays, I try to take a little better care of my things. Though I really want to do something funky to my plain, wood dresser that's in my apartment. I want to paint it a rainbow or something! hehehe

New Job Drama

Who ever came up with the idea of apartment hunting should be shot...repeatedly. Landlords (and ladies) should come to me, begging me to take their fabulous apartments!!

Same goes with changing all the legal/medical shite that goes along with moving to a new job. My new health insurance won't kick in for a couple months, leaving me with no coverage unless I:

#1: Choose to go with COBRA (which is looking more like a pain in the arse than anything else...and expensive...I have to basically continue what I was paying for insurance, $40 every two weeks, plus what my job was paying and I don't know how much that was but I'm pretty sure it's a substantial sum)

#2: Paying out of pocket or

#3: Getting my own private health insurance (which will probably be just as expensive as COBRA, judging by the research I have done on it). Good God, now I know why so many American's don't have health insurance...it's highway robbery!! The private insurance quotes I was getting were in the $300-400 range...for a MONTH!!! Yikes!!

Though it would suck to pay out of pocket especially if something bad happens. Lord knows that I haven't had to go to the doctor or ER in years, but I also know how Murphy's Law works. Once I choose to wing it without insurance, everything in my body will go kaput, and probably all on the same day!!

So, this is my rant for the day. But as hectic and problematic as all this stuff is, it gets my closer to my love so I am more than happy to deal with it! :)

Yummy!!

So, on the way back from work today I needed to go to the bodega anyway to get some much needed TP and had a bit of a sweets craving so I picked up this pack of Mentos in a purple roll.

I've never seen purple Mentos so I had to get them. The label said "rasa anggur", and I obvioulsy had no idea what that meant, but needless to say, I got them anyway. What ever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?

So, I brought them home and noticed a note at the top of the label stating "For Sale In Indonesia Only". God, I love bodega's!!! They get all the best third world candy!! But anywho, these things are yummy, yummy!! Grape flavored Mentos!! But they also had a bit of a lychee taste to them (and anybody who knows me knows how obsessed I am with lychees). We need to get these fantabulous grape Mentos nationwide, not just in seedy little bodegas in NYC!

Just wanted to share my new discovery with you all. Now, I'm off to devour the rest of these yummy purple gifts from the Gods!!

Drowning
music and lyrics by jay brannan

it’s four a.m. again
father, forgive me this sin
uncomfortable in this life, yeah
i can’t put down this knife, yeah

i’m carving words in my arms, baby
hey, scars are part of my charm, maybe
i need the touch of a hand
this isn’t what i had planned

chorus:
i need relief from this life
i wanna slip away into the night
don’t wanna see the sun again
but can’t get swallowed up by this tragic whirlwind
i wish the ocean was warm
i feel like drowning

i’m losing my faith in me
i can’t remember the last time i felt free
from voices inside my head
when i taste liberation, they just feed me fear instead
you say i’m out of controlat least i still have a soul
no, i don’t need your advice
some compassion would be nice

chorus

i can’t take any more of your pills
they hold my head up
but still it feels so wrong
i can’t believe the price that i’ve paid
for this chemically-induced, perceivably ideal, take-it-with-a-glass-of-water day

chorus