A week ago we uprooted and left Manhattan. It was a tough move, as much as I've complained about New York I really did love it there. I am grateful for the challenges that living in the city brought me, I am grateful for the shitty apartment that made me tougher, I am grateful for the amazing people we got to know over the years, and for all the different jobs and experiences that helped me grow.

The move happened pretty quick, there was a job offer and two months later here we are.

I am excited for the future and the move forward. This past week the festival  we run had a marathon featuring a dozen local contemporary classical ensembles. A DOZEN! Five years ago when we started the festival there was maybe one contemporary ensemble in Orlando. Moving back and having an event like this was incredible and I am so excited to see this community continue to grow.

The move itself has been very freeing since we gave away almost everything we own.  The last moment before we drove off we handed our television to an older woman who lived across the street from us. We moved down in a mini van and if it didn't fit it stayed.






We packed the van pretty tight and made it down to florida in under 24 hours. 6 guitars, 2 oboes, 2 dogs, 2 humans, and 2 little plants. Here we are no furniture, an air mattress, and ready to start over.

This week we move into our now house and I am excited to share this new journey.



-bea

 

hi again.

i can't help but feel like i have been neglecting this little blog.

i don't know what it is but i feel like i have had nothing worth sharing and that's a little sad so i thought i'd try something new.

for the month of october i thought i would try to post on the blog everyday.
i feel like i might have tried to do this in the past and failed, but not this time.
please ignore that i am already off to a bad start because today is the 2nd and i already missed a day. honestly where did september go?

i have no idea how this will turn out but hopefully when it is over i will be back in the habit of posting regularly!

i guess today i will post 5 awesome play store apps that i discovered this week.

i am the kind of person that learns things the hard way.
i can remember from an early age my mother telling me that there are two ways to do anything in life, the easy was or the hard way.
when she would tell me this, she was usually referring to cleaning my room a little everyday or  having to deal with the buildup at the end of the week or like studying vs cramming.
kid things.
but like most things she's told me through my life, this is applicable in just about any situation.

for example, my inability to be on time for anything.

instead of doing things the easy way,
like setting my alarm a few hours before i need to be somewhere to have time to eat and get ready,
i choose to stay up until 7 am and set my alarm for half an hour before i need to leave giving me barely enough time to wash my face and put on socks.
but because i went to bed at 7am i sleep through the alarm and next thing you know I am 40 minutes late to my one hour oboe lesson.

i am an asshole.

but today I learned my lesson and will hopefully be one of those people who learn things the easy way.

hope you are all having a happy saturday!
what have you learned this week?

-bea

i refused to wake up this morning and the mixture of 6 alarms followed by all the snooze alarms that went off seemed to do the trick.
it at least annoyed chris enough that he wouldn't let me sleep anymore.

to my surprise it was a beautiful snowy and bright day out.
i rarely check the weather here like i did when i lived in florida.
i guess because usually its just cold out here and thats .

I love walking in the snow and having my contacts moistened by freezing snowflakes.
is that weird?



i managed to stay indoors most of the day (my winter clothes just seem to absorb snow and then i go all numb, not pleasent) but i went on a cookie hunt around 10 pm.
it still hadn't stopped snowing.



i have never seen snow this thick!
our little basement entry way is pretty flooded with snow.

it is so crazy that the weather up north tends to last all day.
it is so different from florida where one second the weather could be bright and clear and the next you're under a tornado warning and it looks so scary outside you worry your bungalow might get taken away in the storm.

i think i prefer the consistency and i don't really miss the thunder and lighting one bit.



also real winter isn't as bad as i thought it would be.
but i really do miss the beach.

-bea

my train took fifteen minutes to come today. i stood in the cold on the above-ground stop near msm and watched the city.
i am really starting to love it here.
i watched the birds perform their unison motions of loops and sharp turns over the traffic.
after a few minutes they returned to the exact spot on the roof of the building where they started.
the marching band kid in me tried to identify the images in the formations and listen to how it went with the music of the city.
it was beautiful.
i don't know if it was the cold breeze that finally dried up my runny nose or the way the sun at four in the afternoon hits the buildings, but i felt so happy and free on that train stop.

i had two finals today.
i had been stressing myself out over sight singing and i didn't really do to well on the final.
i have been really hard on myself about it because i am a failure. i could have worked a little harder earlier on but i was initially so far behind my class and life in the city started really hard for me.
i should have talked to my adviser and had the class changed, but i was excited about my teacher and the challenge. i even had a tutor, who honestly didn't seem to remember me or care about me. but thats another topic.
my other final was fine, all of my other classes are fine.

the homeless man with the kind face drinking on the train kind of made all of my problems seem irrelevant, and made me feel like a spoiled child. it's hard when you are in school to not get caught up in yourself and inflate your problems. but i have it good. my family is supportive and loves me so much, my husband is amazing and goes above and beyond to make me happy and take care of me (as i try to do for him), we have a "nice" apartment in the city in what i feel is a special neighborhood with a fridge filled with food, and i fucking go to one of the top schools in the country and have an amazing teacher who is supportive even when i feel like i am at my worst. i have truly been a baby woman this fall.

i am in need of this break from school, for adventure, time with my husband, and good quality time with my oboe. i know what i need to do to improve and am excited for the time to do it. i also hope to do some charity work in the city, i feel like i cry at some point every day here. this place can be cruel as i am sure many places are, but it is more in your face here than back home.


p.s. have you heard the new beyoncé album? i am about to listen to it and i couldn't be more excited. especially after seeing this,















this tweet is perfection. i might be obsessed :).

-bea