Life Changing

Something amazing and unexpected happened yesterday: ZPJ and I signed a lease on a new apartment!!!

I had sworn that we had stopped looking, my spirit broken by too many disappointments, but ZPJ gets very very bored at work, so he had still been scanning the Internet listing and came across a very tempting opportunity.

1 BR apt in brownstone on President St between 8th Ave & Prospect Park West.
Apartment features an enclosed sunroom and a large private garden.
The apartment has a new kitchen with granite counters, a dishwasher and built in microwave oven.
The living room has an exposed brick wall.
Steps to Prospect Park.
Laundry in building.

We made an appointment to see it Saturday morning, and within an hour we had signed a lease. Good thing, too, because they were showing it all day and if we had waited even fifteen minutes someone else might have put down a deposit. It doesn't look like much at the moment because it's in the middle of renovations and there are wires sticking out of the walls, but that means that it is going to be completely new when we move in.

So, we'll be moving about a mile away next month, and our lives will drastically change. Not only will we have extra room (literally, an extra room) to spread out a little bit, but we will have OUR OWN BACKYARD. This is huge. This is life changing. We are going to be able to sit outside in the evenings, eat dinner outside, bbq outside, party outside, garden outside. We might even let the cats outside. Supervised, of course. It is going to be amazing. The backyard even has a little pond!!! It was hard to tell exactly what we are in for because it was covered with snow and ice as a result of the super, super sucky storm that we had on Friday, but I have visions of roses and herb gardens and a new set of patio furniture. I'm so excited!!!

So, for all of you NYCers, plan on a big party at the end of April. And for the rest of you, plan a trip to visit us soon and we'll set up an air mattress for you in the sunroom that will have a great view of our new garden.

I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!