Preparation/Pre-Separation Anxiety

Ay yay yay!  SO many things to do in preparation of the big impending and fastly approaching move!!! 'Time-Sensitive Things we have to do' aka moving circumstances/variables in order of importance:

1) Breaking the news to our parents, rest of family & friends. 
Check!  This is by far was the hardest thing we will have to overcome for this opportunity.  As Kelly says, "You just can't think about it."  And it's so true.  You simply cannot focus on the hardest aspects of it all, the ones that will linger in time, come around and hang heavy on your heart. That your Mom is not 30 minutes away when you need a quick fix. That the sound of her voice will have to satisfy the need for her....for another five months. You have never gone that long without seeing her in person.  You already knew this year was going to speak volumes.

1) Informing our landlords that we would be breaking out lease....and afterwards finding replacement tenant for our listing
...primarily to take over the 15 out of 23 mths we have left on our lease..........thanks to me for negotiating those terms to seemingly make us more competitive tenants.  Hey, something worked whether it be that or the 14-slide .ppt I created to tell a background story on my sister & I for when our landlords were deciding between prospective tenants, that we stood out.
Craigstlist - http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/apa/3862020556.html

2) Adopted family for Harper
-Even though I have many options for her, this is anything but easy. For those interested in becoming Harper's new adopted parents, I get to consider an old colleague & her [still a colleague but aloof] bf, an interested lady & her son, friend from Bay Area; Area contender right now........

3) Selling cars (servicing, detailing beforehand)
- To sell to private party or not to?  That is the question.  After  much nail-biting,
CarMax it is!

4) Locating a new residence................CHECK!
Park Slope/Prospect Heights, Brooklyn here we come!!!!!!!
As a transplant from LA to NYC, choosing a borough let alone neighborhood to live in is mind-blowing.  Manhattan or Broooklyn? Queens or the Bronx? Uptown, Downtown, Midtown, Upper East, Lower East, East Village, Greenwich Village, Financial District, Chinatown, Little Italy, Bushwick, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Heights, La Verne Heights?!  Oh wait, no, the latter's where we went to Elementary School.  After nearly having a stairwell-anxiety attack on my second to last day of a work/recon. trip to NYC back in May, with my sister and soon-to-be roommate in the same zip code and with the same mission, we put our heads together, racked up some listings in the Brooklyn area - after a week of romping around through Manhattan and deciding we wanted to be Brooklynites - the second place we looked at stole our hearts......and our pocketbooks.  8) We chose a gorgeous 12th story walk-through with northern views of the Manhattan skyline and east views of Prospect Park, JFK Monument at Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Library.


5) Deciding on a moving-execution option; + purging of personal affects

6) Dr. appointments + random 'ish to get done before the big move!

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