Halloween. Cold weather. Moving.

It's right around the corner. My favorite holiday, ever! I love having the ability to dress up and be someone or somethinng else for an evening. I'm always contemplating my "character" at least a month before October 31st and I ALWAYS make my costume. I didn't dress up last year because my fiancee was apprehensive about it. Afraid he would feel like an ass. So I agreed to just go out without a costume (first time in like 10 years). And after we were out, he wished we had dressed up. Which is what I had hoped for. So, two years ago I was a can of whoop-ass. I made the costume myself and managed to win a costume contest. I won a free dinner once a week for a year at this neighborhood bar. And since I was a college student, damn that came in handy. This year I think I am going to go with the Corpse Bride. And my new husband Bas (we were married in May) will accompany me as the groom. My husband, Bas never dressed up for Halloween before me, but that will change. He's Dutch and they don't really make a big deal of Halloween in the Netherlands. My mission in life, well one mission, is to get him to love Halloween and getting dressed up as much as I do.

A Side Note......It was a cold and wet one in NYC over the weekend. I'm a Florida girl with very thin blood and this will be my second winter (brrrr!) in New York. I'm having major anxiety issues about the impending cold.

Bas and I are moving to New Jersey next weekend. The apartment is going to be larger and much quieter. Right now our crib is in Spanish Harlem and it really is the size of a baby's crib. And it's on the first floor in the front of the building, so we hear all the hood rats out on the stoop howling and yapping all night long. I know I'm getting old becuz now I'm calling the cops on the kids. But the most devastating about this apartment is the lack of a dishwasher. It's like living in the 1960's. And I hate, hate, hate doing dishes. The new place is equiped with a new dishwasher and an eat-in kitchen. Now we have to eat on our laps becuz we can't fit a table.

But I must admit I will miss our old 'hood. Oh, the memories. It does have it's charm. The junkies. The dealers. The shit on the ground from lazy asses that refuse to pick up crap balls after their dogs. The Mexicans with families of sixteen or more. And can't forget about rats that run before your feet when you are coming home at night.
But really, it ain't that bad. I've never seen any major trouble there. No shootings or robberies. And it's only two short blocks to a major subway line (4,5,6). It's a 1o-minute walk to Central Park. There is a fabulous restaurant-Itzocan right on the corner. Cheap launderers, so I don't have to do my second most hated chore. We outsource it. The delis are fairly inexpensive by New York standards. Grocery stores are everywhere. There is usually parking on the streets. And the rent is mad cheap. It's allowed us to save up a boatload of money for our future home. And that is despite spending about $9,000 on our wedding back in May.

We'll be refurnishing the new place. We bought an eggshell colored leather couch from Jennifer Leather-with reclining chairs on both ends. And a new beautiful area rug. It's from a line called the Andy Warhol collection. Given that he's dead, it's a given that he didn't design it himself, but it is inspired from his pop-art paintings. It's got cool shapes and colors. Very hip.

Check it out: http://www.rugs-direct.com/menus/colors_1.asp?Style=75701&Color=119464&Jump=No

Now we just have to get a coffee table, bookshelf and my husband's obsession-a fish tank then we're good to go. It's awesome getting new shit for a new home.
Oh and last thing to mention, we'll be buying a car in a few short weeks. That's gold. Nothing like being mobile. We'll probably be looking into a used Toyaota Corolla or Camry. Something that's reliable and cheap on gas. By the way, I don't know what the hell I'm doing on this blog spot, so I don't have pictures and I keep screwing everything up. Patience. Patience. I'll get it right some day.