Wednesday, January 6th

Each day is truely an adventure in New York. ONCE again, woke up later than planned. The time change thing is starting to bug me. It's about 9:20 PM right now so once I'm done writing this blog I am going to seriously try to sleep early. For real this time...

I woke up to an almost freezing cold room this morning because the heater conveniently works everywhere in my apartment except for my room. Well, actually, it "works" but if I shut my bedroom door then the heater is tricked into thinking the entire house is warm, when really the warmth stops at the foot of my door. I'm thinking of investing in some flannel sheets. Anyway, back to my adventure of a day. Today, also being hump day, was a day filled with many good and bad surprises. (jeez. I just reread that, can I say DAY one more time?) haha.

Lets start with the good surprises, yea? Okay well when I woke up this morning, the first thing I did was check my e-mail. I opened it up to find that I officially have my first job interview! It's for a paid internship with an event planning company that does events for musicians and works around the fashion industry as well. The interview is Friday at 2:30 so I'll keep you posted! Next up on the good news is I got a knock on my door and when I answered it, it was the guy coming to fix the heater. EXCEPT, neither I or any of my roommates called him. He just happened to come to the wrong apartment, but hey hey I was so glad he did :) I put him right to work. He ended up being really cool too. His name was Carlos from the Dominican Republic and we shot the shit in spanglish while he added styrofoam to the innards of my walls. More and more I'm realizing that I really do talk to everyone. Anyway once Carlos did his thing I went to check out a few apartments that I found through craigslist. The first one was in Tribeca (really nice area) and I loved it! The bedrooms were bigger than any room I've ever lived in, there were probably six closets in the apartment, and the living room and kitchen were really cute. Also, the building has laundry on every floor, they take dogs, and there is a 24 hour bellman just like you see in the movies. The place offers one month rent free and is in our price range so I'm gonna go check it out again Friday with Trent to see what he thinks. fingers crossed.

Next up I checked out a place in Brooklyn shown to me by a man named Tyrone. Oh man, what a j-o-k-e. The apartment is literally attatched to the top of a bar and the "bedrooms" were straight up closets. Nice try attempting to trick me into believing those were bedrooms. I told him I'd be in touch. I think that's a nice way of giving someone a little hope, even though we both knew we'd never see each other again. The last place I saw today was also in Brooklyn, off the L train at the Jefferson stop. I know that probably means nothing to you but I like saying it. This place was also pretty radical. 15 ft ceilings, 2.5 bedrooms, huge living room and kitchen area, and an awesome roof deck with a great view of New York City. This apartment is probably the biggest and cheapest place I've seen so far. The guy who showed it to me was super good looking too. That fact may or may not have had an affect on how much I liked it. But if we decide to go with this place we can turn the third room into a sweet game room or even rent it out to knock a couple hundred off our rent. Either way, things are looking good.

But back to my happy surprises. On my way home I decided to stop for milk because I have two boxes of my favorite cereal at home, but no liquid companion. Milk turned into an entire shopping experience and I loaded up on a week's worth of groceries. My grand total you ask? a whopping $38! I couldn't believe it! If I bought those same items at a Ralphs or even Vons, I guarunteed would've been at the 60-70 dollar range. So I was super pumped walking home as a happy Key's Groceries customer and then I walk into my apartment...

And here is where the surprises go sour. As soon as I see Asher's face (my boy roomate) I knew something bad happened. I set down my groceries, ask whats going on, and he gives me the news that Oliver had just passed away right before I got home. Oliver was Jess's cat (my girl roomate) and he was only 3 years old. Apparently it happened really suddenly. She thinks he might've had a stroak or heart attack. It reminded me of when I lost my cat a few years ago. I think she's still a little bit in shock. She loved Oliver just like I love Lucy. (my dog, not the tv show). Anyway, it was really sad in the apartment tonight and it just made me look at the fact that tomorrow is never guaranteed. Nothing is really. So please keep Jess in your prayers and your hearts and remember to live every day as if it was your last. I know I will.

Until we meet again,
Meg