I can't believe I live in BROOKLYN!!!

How surreal is this? Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be living in Brooklyn!

For the past month I was packing every day and little by little the apartment was packed. On Wednesday night we were up until midnight doing the final packing, took apart some furniture, our bed being one of them and slept on the couches in the living room. Thursday was the moving day and we got up at 6am, got some Dunkin Donuts and waited for the guys to come and help us. Our new landlord Chris, T's brother Johnny and T's friend Calvin were our work horses. We took a load of stuff to our storage place...it is now packed from floor to the ceiling. Then we packed the van and headed to Brooklyn. I was driving T's car, T was driving Chris' car, Johnny his own, Chris Calvin's and Calvin drove the van. I have never been so nervous in my life as I was on the turnpike. Tractor trailers sandwiching you on both sides passing you 70 miles per hour, trying to follow Johnny's car so I didn't lose him as I didn't know where I was going and here if you miss your exit the next might be tens of miles away. I also had to go to the bathroom badly so that drive was not fun. And then we hit Staten Island and the traffic was barely moving. Can you say good times?

We were moving until about 6pm so the whole deal took almost around the clock. After the guys left we went to the deli across the street and got sandwiches. We were up until midnight again unpacking and made some progress. On Friday the cable guy came to hook up the TV, Internet and phone...Woo Hoo, we have TV! Some more unpacking and the place started to look like home. On Saturday we had Chris' birthday bbq, did some shopping for the new place and did 3 loads of laundry. On Sunday for Eagles game we went to a local pub that shows all the games, had a few ciders/beers and some chicken wings. For the rest of the day we finished up the apartment and watched some more football. We are done now. It was a bit a bit challenging putting our stuff in the closet space here as there's a LOT less available space but we managed. It looks really nice and cozy. We like it. Now we kinda hope that we will stay here for longer than a month. Or not. I can't decide. It's really nice place and the neighborhood is awesome and moving is a bitch but at the same time I want this job in DC. So lets hope they call me...later this week, early next week...

Since we moved here, on both days this week I've gotten phone calls about my resume. Yesterday someone called about a Environmental Engineering job in Morris County, NJ. She said she will give my resume to the hiring people to set up a phone interview...will see if that happens. My visa status might be an issue even though she said it might not. This morning someone called me about an Environmental Manager job placed at Merck in NJ. After I told him about my visa status he said they were not sponsoring visas right now so that did not work out...but it looks like I am getting noticed at least.Can't do anything about the visa status...

I gotta eat some lunch and take a little walk around the hood but I will post some pictures and blog more in the days to come...or later today...

Later!