How to become a New Yorker

In order for this blog to historically accurate I would have to go back too far. In this, as in any story, there are some details that you will just have to accept as truth.

When I was younger and wanted to watch a specific scene in a movie I could pop in the video and rewind or fast forward until I found an exact moment. Frozen. Perfectly preserved and exactly the same as last time I had watched it. I want to tell you about what I've been doing lately but I don't know how far to rewind. Suffice it to say, I despise where I live. With the exception of very few friends and neighbours it would suit me fine if this city was hit by an asteroid and obliterated completely. I wish nothing good for this city built of pot holes and ass holes. I am miserable here. That is one of those facts that I won't be corroborating. To describe my various hissy fits and myriad meltdowns would no doubt be a great read but would also drive me off course. What I am more interested in describing is my next step. Keep Moving Forward and all that.

I am still not sure how we arrived at the decision to move to New York City. Right off the bat it seems like the kind of thing I would dream about and my husband would immediately reject. Too Big. Too Hard. Too Crazy. We just had a baby! What about the cats? What about the dog? What about the house? What about our families?

Erik posted his resume online because of one particularly histrionic freak-out I had. When he was making a selection for the drop-down menu "Places I would relocate to:" there was no: "I don't care just get me the fuck out of here!" option. The first two companies to contact him were both based in New York. He has been interviewing with them since November so I guess it wouldn't make sense to say we rushed this decision but somehow, it has all happened so fast. A big part of us was anticipating jumping ship when it actually came down to decision time but slowly we came to see this as a viable future for ourselves, our son and our dog. That's right, no cats.