6 Months Ago Today....

I moved here on October 5th. After sleeping on the Party room couch in Adam and Casey's Williamsburg apartment for a week I got up to my alarm at 4 am, took a shower, jumped in a cab with all my worldly possessions (mostly clothes and my guitar) and took off for Boise Idaho. I remember in the few months before leaving trying to picture myself on that morning. Would I cry? Would I stay? Would I say "Good riddance New York" to never return?? As you can probably imagine I certainly was filled with a myriad of emotions. Mostly I was calm and ready. Ready for a break from the city, ready to really find out what would happen when AJ and I spent every day together, ready to see trees, ready for there to be a lot less people everywhere, ready to find myself, and find out what exactly I would end up doing with all this time and space on my hands...As the plane took off I felt as if my wings were spreading out for the first time in a long time. I felt more free than I have felt maybe in my whole entire life! I had been to Boise a couple times for a couple days but for the most part it was the unknown to me. Before I left there were many people who understood why I made the decision to move here. There were many many others saying "Iowa?" "Ohio?" "What? Where is that?" "Why are you moving to the midwest?" "What the hell are you going to do there? Grow Potatoes?" "Are you working on a potato farm?" "Bet you'll eat a lot of potatoes.." All somewhat understandable. All of which got old fast. First of all, people in this country do NOT know their geography very well ( I got A+s on all my 6th grade geography quizzes thankyouverymuch). IDAHO is in the NORTHWEST...right next to Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, and even Canada! Here is a map:

As you can see, Idaho is next to many states...much closer to California than Kentucky. Or Iowa. Or Ohio. Another thing to set straight. Idaho is the Gem State, not that Potato state. Someone decided years ago that Idaho needed something to be its "thing" and for some reason chose potatoes, a veggie that grows in almost every other state as well as Idaho. Plus gems are a whole lot cooler than potatoes, so I don't know what they were thinking.
The Northwest is pretty great. Full of forests and rivers and mountains. Its beautiful. In the major cities out here, Seattle, Portland, Boise, you'll find almost a perfect mix of outdoor activities with cultural inspiration. Lots of outdoorsy, active people...which also means a lot of hot guys. (Seriously though...all those ladies in NYC wondering where all the hot, artistic, athletic men are..they are HERE.) Boise is still up-and-coming in the culture area..but it is happening. Lots of people from California are moving out here because the real estate is extremely low and its one of the last major cities with such a low population (I think around 250,000 or so?) Anyway, I digress a bit. 6 months. How am I faring? Well..within the first couple of months I already picked up and played my guitar 10 times more than I had in the past 2 years; I've started running again, on awesome trails in the mountains that are a 10 minute walk from my apartment (I'll have to do another post with photos). Finally, I enrolled in a couple classes. The most useful and fun one is my Intro to Audio Production class in which I get to play around with music and people and its just really great. AJ and I are also faring very well. I won't lie, the first couple of months were weird and slightly awkward for us, but now we are in the swing and feeling very happy together. Unfortunately I have found myself being "that girl" who doesn't ever go out because she wants to hang out with her boyfriend..but hey, doesn't really matter here because the "going out scene" is almost nonexistent/not really very fun at all. Alas, I did not move here from New York City for the nightlife. That is fo' sho'. Also, after 4 years apart, I feel like AJ and I deserve a nice chunk of alone time before I get sucked back into whatever it is that I end up doing. Well I guess I feel thats a good little summary for now. I ran outside this morning. Afternoon really. Oh yeah...can't forget to mention that I've been sleeping more than I ever have in my life too. The first couple of months (still?) I couldn't stop. I thought maybe I'm making up for a lot of lost sleep in the big city..I'm pretty sure that was it. At this point I'm the most well-rested person I know. Yay for me!