We made it! Nick and I moved on Thursday, July 24th to Nashville for Nick to start his new job with PF Chang's in West End. He had 4 weeks of training at the PF Chang's in Birmingham, giving me just enough time to come visit Nashville a couple of times and get an idea of the city and rent a temporary apartment. We moved with the help of three of our awesome friends (thanks Paul, Izzy and Tony!) and we left Birmingham about 3 p.m. that day. We had a 24 foot truck, my Volvo on one of those car-carrier things and we were STILL bursting at the seams with CRAP! I can't believe that our little 1120 sq.ft. condo held all that junk. We have decided that we're NEVER moving ourselves again... even Nick agreed that it was worth every penny to pay someone to move! Anyway... the car carrier thing is crazy heavy and it took all 4 of the guys to hook it onto the truck when we were in Birmingham, so imagine how excited I was that Nick and I were the only ones on this end to unhook it and unpack that entire truck! NOT!!! Well... I found strength I didn't know I had and we were able to unhook the trailer just the 2 of us, and we woke up crazy early Friday morning and unpacked the entire truck ourselves. We were so tired, but we did it and no one had to be rushed to the hospital... YAY! Our apartment is a 1 bedroom "executive" which means it is a 1 bed/1 bath with a 2nd bedroom slash office. So the office has become our storage unit. You can hardly walk into it because it's packed to the ceiling with boxes and furniture and luckily Nick and I haven't tried to kill each other just yet in this tiny space! We will go out house-hunting again on Thursday and hopefully start to narrow down where we want to live. During our first Saturday here, we went out in downtown Nashville. There was a Brew-Fest going on that afternoon, and the line to get in was wrapped around 4 full city blocks. It was amazing the number of people! We also went to the Mall at Green Hills to play in the Louis Vuitton store... it was the highlight of my weekend!
Nick started work here this past Monday and I have been offered the opportunity to do contract project management with a very successful event planning firm, which I'm very excited about! I've decided that there is no way I could be a stay-at-home wife because I would be so incredibly bored. Last week I spent 3 hours out in town looking for the best price on a microwave... boring! If only I could lay by the pool with my buddies it would be awesome being out of work, but laying out there by myself drinking beer sounds desperate and would likely land me in Alcoholics Anonymous. We definitely don't want that!!!
We've also started house-hunting, so here's hoping I can find the right house, close on it and move in in less than 2 months!!!
Hope you're all doing so well, and we miss all of you!
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