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"After seven years of big city living, I am packing up and moving on. Nick and I bought a house out on the north shore of Long Island (six minutes from my parents&amp;#x27; house...seven from Melissa and Ysrael...one mile from the beach!) and the closing is tomorrow. We have to be out of our apartment by Friday and I couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier about that. I know some of you said I could do it--live in a one-bedroom with a baby--but it is not easy. Most of the time, I feel like the walls are closing in on us and I honestly think Alex is bored here (there&amp;#x27;s only so much to look at when you&amp;#x27;ve only got two rooms). I am sure I will have lots of sad leaving-the-city moments, but right now I am just so excited about picking out paint colors that I can&amp;#x27;t think of one thing I will miss. Nick and I went to Home Depot yesterday and I actually got giddy thinking about all the little projects we can work on together (the first: refinishing the hand-me-down furniture we&amp;#x27;re acquiring since once we buy the house we can&amp;#x27;t afford to actually furnish it). Of course I&amp;#x27;m nervous about all of this too. Other than our leather couches, Nick and I have never owned anything worth a damn. Now we have a house. And a mortgage. We&amp;#x27;re going from almost no space to more space than we know what to do with. We have a three car garage and only half a car (my 1997 Honda Accord, which, I&amp;#x27;m afraid, is on its last legs). I&amp;#x27;m sure I will be asking you guys for all your money-saving tips and house-furnishing ideas and, when the time comes, surviving-the-commute tricks (it&amp;#x27;s going to be over an hour on the train each way...more on that insanity later), but for now I&amp;#x27;ve got some serious packing to do--it is amazing how much crap you can stuff into a one bedroom! And since I will be busy with the move this week, I&amp;#x27;ve lined up some great guest bloggers to take over for a few days. I&amp;#x27;ll check back in when I can. In the meantime, wish me luck! --Erin"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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