Moving again … for the first time!
Fri ,13/06/2008The bags are packed, boxes overflowing, and the U-Haul is reserved … it’s time to move. After a little more than a year living in Hackensack and the wonders of Bergen County, I am once again on the move, back to lush Morris County.
I’ve moved before. Moving from my sister’s to Hackensack was an ordeal for sure. Yet why the strange blog title?
The more I thought about this whole process, the more I realized that this is a very new life event for me. While it is true, that I haven’t lived in my parent’s house for about 3-4 years now, I haven’t really ever lived on my own either. Allow me to explain.
The first two years are rather easy to explain away. I left my parent’s home and I simply moved to my Sister’s house and took residence there, attempting to not get trampled by little girls. The rent was cheap, the food was free, and all was good. Yet rightfully so, my sister thought it was time to move on. I needed to move somewhere else and she needed to ensure that all the kids had a room of their own. I quickly scrambled trying to find a place to crash on my modest salary and was coming up rather short.
This is when Katie came in and told me about her Grandmother’s house and how they had a tenet there who they wanted to get rid of. I took on the task of living there, and for the most part it was great. Of course I had to deal with the initial issue of living in the same house as an elderly woman and her caretaker. However, as anyone that came over can attest to, the place was pretty much all mine and that never became an issue. Still though it really wasn’t a place of my own. At least it never felt that way until Katie’s grandmother passed away, and not even then so much.
So now I have set out on my own. Well, semi on my own, as I will be living with the future Mrs. Joey V, but you get what I mean. It’s a place that is mine. A place where I had to call up the electric company and tell them to bill me. A place where I had to call and install fiber optic awesomeness for Phone, TV and Internet. A place … that I can call home.
Feels good to finally say that, after 3 years of never feeling truly like I had a place to lay my head. I’m glad it’s finally here, and it’s in the spot that I have now. =)