All in a year's time.

So a friend of mine is currently traveling in Aruba right now. This may not seem significant to you but this is her second vacation to Aruba and during the last one she was kind enough to let me stay at her apartment for two weeks (and make me feel like I was saving her money by feeding her cats instead of me saving money by not having to pay for a hotel)..

In April last year I lived in a crappy apartment in lovely Astoria with three roommates. When I moved there circa August they were sane and friendly people, but by April I think one stopped taking her meds and one just completely lost grasp of any hold he had on life. To be fair,, the one was still normal and sane and kind. Regardless they're change in emotional stability made for an increasingly unstable home life in the city that was not what I called home. So when the instability became life-threatening, I packed up my stuff and moved it into storage and became a nomad for the month of May. This Aruba-traveling friend was traveling during that time and replied to my cries of help and panic when I was saddened by other friends that didn't reply at all or replied with 'cant lend you my couch'. I understand those that said what they did but it didn't help me out of the dark cloud that was following me a bit.

Regardless.... that was a year ago and it doesn't seem that long ago in some respects (I still feel like I talk to my NYC friends as often as I did when I lived there,,I just don't see them as often),,, but it seems like 100 years in other respects (like I have gotten settled in a new apartment with Kevin and we have our own washer/dryer)...

When I saw the new pics of Aruba from my friend, it made me feel SOOO grateful for my life now. To be able to drive over to my house and have dinner with my family,, and go to a movie (angels and demons tonight at 12:01!) with my brother and Kevin , or to help my parents fix their computer, to sit at home with my mom on mothers day without worrying about a plane trip scheduled or taxi ride into the evening. To be able to drive to get groceries,,, to meet my friends from home to go for a walk instead of hesitating cause I know I have at least a 45 min trip home still with walking and sitting and waiting if everything goes perfectly.

As much as I miss a few friends from NYC, my life is 1000 times happier and better now and if I could get those friends to move to buffalo.,,,, well there is not much more I could want.

amazing what a year will do huh?

May!???

Can you believe it is May already? My goodness, I could swear it was just January like two days ago. Its incredible how time flies sometimes doesn't it? Not too much has been going on in the big B-Lo! We are pretty settled in the apartment and other than returning furniture that we borrowed to have seating and tables, we're back to normal.

Summer and Spring are seriously gorgeous in Buffalo. I forgot about how nice the weather is up here when I was sweating and frizzing my hair in NYC.

I still plan on posting party pictures but work has been very busy so by the time I get home I'm exhausted and just want to relax and get ready for bed. Soon enough you'll see them all!