update!

I've noticed that posting to my blog is sort of like exercising: once you fall off the stick it gets hard to get started again. Then again, I've also been busy.

In the last two weeks, I've:

• Unpacked and arranged everything except my books (we need to build a bookcase)
  
• Gone to Bar Harbor for a lovely long weekend with Dave
  
• Gone to upstate New York for a long weekend to visit Dave's parents with Dave, David, and Debi
  
• Started the insane workout regimen known as Crossfit
  
• Started settling into Somerville and done things like get a library card
  
• Hosted a friend for a night when he came to Boston for a conference
  
• Hosted Eric for a weekend (another post on that later)
  
• Made a few pies
  
• Eaten fabulous meals at Havana in Bar Harbor and Hungry Mother in Cambridge
  
• Eaten a summer's worth of ice cream now that I've escaped the ice cream wasteland of NYC and finally returned to a city where they know how to make ice cream (blueberry and coffee oreo and fresh mint and salted oreo and blueberry lemon. and I tried cucumber, but it was not very good.)
  
• ...oh yeah, and I started my new job!
  

So far I'm pretty happy in Somerville and at the new job. I miss my friends back in NYC, and I miss Gorilla Coffee (we are down to two pounds from the six we stocked up on!) and I miss the Food Coop and I miss running in Prospect Park in the mornings. That's about all I miss so far. I'm finding that I like the slower pace of life here, at least for now. I love my huge apartment, I love having a porch and a little yard, I love all the trees in my new neighborhood, I love not being woken up every night by yelling and garbage trucks and sirens and fights, I love my short commute (25 minutes door-to-door), and I LOVE having a washer and dryer in the basement. Words cannot express how much I enjoy having laundry at home. That and high quality ice cream, I've got it made.