Can you reinvent yourself …again…in 3.5 weeks? Hell yeah. Here’s the short version:
1. WPapa got a great job. Smart people, interesting work, regular hours, and excellent compensation. His title: E-Commerce Architect. So 21st century. Thank God he choose Computer Science as an undergrad because it’s worth his Engineering MS, Oxford MBA and my Yale MA put together.
2. We rented an apartment in my favorite American city: New Haven, CT. With its walk-ability, great restaurants and cheap/free culture compliments of Yale, it really is my fav (cue fellow-Yale grad pal Nicci’s headshake of disbelief). And it’s thirty minutes from my free babsitt…I mean parents.
3. WBoy is enrolled in a GREAT school. Getting him in at this late date was harder than WP’s job search. He will be a Kindergartener at Leila Day School in New Haven. We can walk there in 5 minutes from the apartment and a chef prepares breakfast, lunch and snack. Enough said.
4. We bought a new Honda Fit for me:) My mom laughed when I said it’s my dream car but it is. 38 miles per gallon and so cute! We’ll be the owners of a used Honda Civic by week’s end.
5. We have a pediatrician at long last. And health insurance, life insurance, disability etc… Ah the benefits of working for a large corporation.
6. I have gotten to spend a lot of time with my very best friends. I missed them so much and seeing them, and our now legion offspring, playing and fighting over toys is great fun.
Those are the major things. Of course there are moving related things (truck, painting, buying and shleping furniture), school prep (endless forms, long pants/sleeves to buy), trips to the DMV, etc… But mostly we are done.
Soon I’ll even be able to think about my plans/work again.
