You've thought we'd disappeared, huh? It's hard to write an adventure blog when there's a strong lack of adventure in our lives. Yet...I'm writing today. Hm.... Interesting. Why would I do that?
....what...
..what is that...????
adventure???!!!!
Finally! We have an adventure to look forward to! After begging and nagging Rachel for months, it's finally happened. Its my birthday present. Two slots for TOUGHMUDDER VERMONT!!!!!
We are in such desperate need of adventure! We've recently moved into our full year lease apartment. Unfortunately its finals month at school and I have little time to put any attention into the place so its not totally set up yet. That will have to wait until my last finally is officially taken. But there is a comfy rug in our living room and a brand new leather couch. For some reason, I've found myself reverting back to my childhood and sitting on the rug with my back against the couch. It's my $1000 dollar leaning device. It's beautiful but awfully slippery and I find myself more steadied and comfortable on the ground. You can imagine how happy that makes my economical girlfriend :)
Our apartment is on the border of Boreum Hill and Park Slope. Why do we always, always find ourselves on the border of neighborhoods?
We both love our jobs. Thank God! Rach works at the hottest new restaurant in NY, ABC Kitchen, frequented by Oprah, choice of Obama's dinner campaign, and owned by Jean Gorges. Did you expect any less?
I work for Top Chef Boss Tom Colicchio at Craftbar just two blocks away from Rachel (which is ridiculously amazing and statistically improbable). I say they're the coolest jobs yet as restaurant standards go.
School is okay. I think I over did the credits for the first semester. I think maybe I should have waited until the fall when we got settled with our jobs and apartment. Starting school, moving twice and finding and getting settled into a new job was a lot to handle and I think my grades suffered. Next semester I'll have a better idea about what to expect and what is realistic for me to handle.
In other great, school related news, Rach will join me at Hunter in the fall!!! She's going to be a physical therapist. So competitive! I say I wanna be a nurse and now she's gotta be a doctor!!!
Know what I say to that??
This just means our kids get a cooler, safer car when they turn 16! It also means they'll be super safe at home. When they're sick, they can come to me. We're they're hurt, they can go to Rach. Power couple in scrubs! Seriously, what's hotter than two lesbians wearing scrubs?!
We're liking the fact that we're making actual plans that will secure our future but we miss adventure way more than we expected. I swear, I think NYC is on a different time scale then the rest of the country. Time goes by so fast here! I'm exhausted from work and school and there's always things "to do" when I have time off. Sometimes I'm so tired and blow off my things to do, which means that my next day off I have more to do. This is where Tough Mudder comes to the rescue.
Not only is it totally awesome because Tough Mudders are the absolute coolest and funnest thing EVER. BUT! Rach and I have noticed a cycle throughout the years. Working out = us being happy. And we only work out a lot when we have something we're training for. Not that we're not happy, we're just really stressed and busy and even though we know its not the same, it feels like life did before adventure. It's almost like adventure never happened even though we know it did. Training for a Tough Mudder will get our blood flowing again. We've also never been to Vermont and of course we're going to make a romantic weekend out of it, which we also desperately need. It's going to feel so good to jump in the car and drive off to somewhere we've never been. I think we miss that the most. The whole theme of adventure was to experience new things on a very consistent basis. Our schedules in NYC are not very conducive to doing that. We've grown accustomed to needing that and when we don't have it, lots of tension builds up. Not towards each other, just in general. Actually, in regards to our relationship, its the best it's ever been. We're incredibly happy and we're always on the same page. We just need some adventure and I already feel a relief just knowing that there actually is one coming up. I'm at school and supposed to be studying, but I thought it was a good time to pop in. (It's amazing the things I find myself doing when I'm supposed to be studying).
-lj
