Caught in the Act

No doubt ordering an Aerobed of her own since she's taken to sleeping on mine while I'm at work! We shipped the furniture last Wednesday, so I'm living in an empty apartment with some suitcases. It's somewhat liberating, but also mildly depressing to hear the echo in this place. In other news, I need to stop shopping and using the excuse, "But I won't be able to buy this over there!" Ebay and Lands End are the flavors of the week.

Half Marathon #2 under my Belt!

I'm not quite sure how I pulled this off today with everything that's going on in life right now. I finished with a PB of 2:05. PSA: Do not follow my example of sporadic training and running no more than 8 miles before race day.

Maybe it was the weather?

Rainy Sunday

I didn't "play" much today. I did sneak for brunch with H and A at Rue 57, but I was all business the rest of the day. Our final drawers and hall closet have been cleaned out and organized. Now, I wait for the movers and tie up loose ends over the course of the next week.

I won't show you the before, but two hours later I made it to this:

We're fairly organized, but this closet is the largest we have and had turned in to a dumping ground for "stuff." Stuff we don't need or use very often. Gone are the piles of wedding stuff (we've been married 4 years this year), Christmas decorations and other junk. Everything has a home and these containers will fit nicely in to the closets we have in London.

In other news, Vella spent the afternoon supervising from her bed.

One Hot Monday Night

Vella and I have a date with these two!

We Survived our First Week!

Matt flew to London a little over a week ago. He's surviving without his girls. Vella and I are surviving. That's the only way to sum it up right now. Poor Vella, she's been really confused. I think she'll settle in this week and I learned not to put Matt on speaker phone. That was torture for all of us.

I'll spare everyone the rental saga, but we didn't sign a lease until almost three weeks after our visit to London. We'll be in Notting Hill and unfortunately, Hugh Grant didn't come with the apartment. I believe there are Hugh and Colin Firth sightings though, so I'll keep my eyes open once I'm across the pond.

I'll leave you with some very bad pictures of the kitchen and reception room (aka living room to all of us Americans). This will be the largest apartment we've ever lived in together, with an astounding two bedroom and two bathrooms. Control yourselves New Yorkers :-) It doesn't look like much now, but we have some fun things planned for every room. I can't wait to share the progress in 6-8 weeks.

Are we there yet?

The apartment looks like a bomb went off at some point this week. We have piles everywhere that need to be boxed up and find their way to JFK. Thank goodness we have movers coming tomorrow to pack up our air shipment. Matt flies to London tomorrow night and picks up the keys to our apartment (ok, ok, FLAT) on Friday. I'll be able to come up for air on Thursday and Friday, and share some updates and pictures. It will be me and Vella hanging out for the next few months in NYC!

I can't wait to spend the weekend catching up on blogs. I know there's a lot of exciting stuff going on out there.

Happy Valentines Day

We're having a quiet day in WH! It's a bittersweet weekend since the listing for the Summer rental will go up this week. I think Matt is more upset than I am about someone else enjoying the Summer out here in our getaway. I keep reminding him that we'll be able to head South to France or Spain, or the English Coast, on weekends if we get tired of exploring London.

We have about a foot of snow on the ground out here, so it's ironic that I'm packing up my Summer clothes for air shipment to the UK in the next week or so. I have a feeling that I won't be wearing 90% of it in London since it's never that warm there in the Summer.

No apartment news. We told the estate agents that everything has to be tied up by EOD Monday or we will pull our bids / start over when Matt arrives in about 10 days. Craziness. It's a bizarre market.

And before I forget, we met Vella at Bideawee one year ago today! We brought her home on the 15th. She's the best decision we ever made together and we can't imagine life without her. My MIL has nicknamed her "Cindervella" since she is quite the princess. TN to WH to NYC to London?!? She hit the jackpot. It's very hard being her...

Brilliant! Gorgeous! Mad! Posh!

Watch out London, here come the Rosedales! And yes, that includes our crazy little fur child. I don't know if they're ready for Vella over there.

Yes, that's the big news. We're moving to London. It's crazy and we're crazy excited! We spent Wednesday - Sunday of last week looking for an apartment, er, I mean flat. It isn't sorted out yet, but I will share details as soon as I have some good news. Because the past three days have been filled with nothing but disappointing phone calls with estate agents...I know we won't be homeless, but it's been a bizarre experience so far. Do I have stories about some of the places we saw!

The husband moves in two, yes that's TWO, weeks. I'll follow in 10-12 weeks once I'm able to sort out renting our house, selling the furniture in our apartment, and finding a job (minor detail, right?!?).

I can't wait to write more over the weekend and catch up on the past few weeks of blogs. Cheers!

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Big changes happening here! And no, we're not adding a member to our family. I'll share more later this week.

MLK Holiday

If you are not at work today because of the holiday, please take a moment to reflect on MLK and what he did for this country!

How are you spending your day? I'm off for a run once it warms up this morning. Vella and I will take a long walk later. Other than that, no plans! I have some organizing/cleaning out to do, so I'm sure I'll tackle that this afternoon.

Happy Monday!