An Announcement

Daniel and I have known for a while now, but we wanted to wait a little bit to go public with it. Like most couples in this time of life, we wanted to be far enough along before announcing it. First, of course, we told our families and then some of our very good friends. Now we are announcing this big life change to the rest of the world. I'm sure you know what I'm getting at, but in case you don't, the following picture basically says it all:

You guessed it!


WE ARE MOVING TO BROOKLYN!

To be explicitly clear, I am not pregnant, but we really are moving to New York. For the record, let me just say that I laughed and laughed and laughed while writing that intro. It took me like an hour to find the perfect picture to use though. It turns out when you google "baby in manhattan", you get this:

Scary as that she-demon might be, I guess she's pretty much me in a nutshell. I'm just a Manhattan Baby with a fiery lizard skull in my stomach ready to take on the world!

Only we won't be living in Manhattan. Like I said, Daniel and I will start off this adventure in Brooklyn, one of New York City's five boroughs. We hope to sublease an apartment in Ditmas Park, and we would use the summer to find a permanent residence. If we get this apartment, we will also be responsible for the tenant's three cats. I imagine they look something like this:

This story is already colorful!

It's a 40 minute commute to midtown, but that's better than my current commute to midtown which, according to google maps, is 1 day and 5 hours.

Anyway, why are we moving to New York City, the "concrete jungle where dreams are made...of"?

Ever since I lived in NYC in the fall of 2010, I have wanted to go back. At that time I was interning at The Martha Stewart Show in the Promotions department. I was sometimes responsible for making Martha say things like this:

I loved working in and around a live television set. I loved being challenged in the greatest ways by the people I was working with. And goodness knows I loved me some Martha. It was here that I decided that I would love to work in television.

I also loved almost everything about New York. I loved the smell of crisp air as I emerged from a rank subway station. I loved the way people walked up escalators. I loved how there were always street fairs and they always had the same weird booth that sold plush blankets with wolves on them. Most of all though, I loved the people. Truly, genuinely, I loved the people of New York.

Knowing my love for this great city, Daniel started looking for opportunities there. And wouldn't you know it...he got accepted into the New York City Teaching Fellows (give this boy a hand!), which means that in the fall, he will be a New York public school teacher. He will also be working towards his Masters. This basically makes him a superhero, right?

Daniel as Quail Man circa 2007

Anyway, we just recently found out about his acceptance. His classes start on May 30th, so we are BUSTING it to get everything ready before then. I'll write more about that process later, I'm sure. 

For now, I'm just happy to get the word out there. I'm sure you can understand that while I'm excited, I pretty much want to throw up all the time. That's just my personality. I'm a nervous wreck. Daniel is a calm pasture. Together, I think we will make it work.

....but prayers are appreciated.