re-nest: u.n.w.i.n.d.

Why?

After 14 years of LA, the things we didn't like about living here finally wore us down and we decided to move away. Our first choice was Portland, Oregon. After months of interviewing, neither of us could secure a job. We turned our sights to the next city on the list, New York. We lined up jobs and moved at the end of March 2008.

Apparently this was a bad idea. Things were not as they seemed and New York was not a good fit. We learned some good, hard lessons about life. We moved back to LA (four months later!) because the most important things were:

- be with our friends and close to our sisters

- advance our careers in a market we understand

- enjoy a low cost of living so we can save & travel

This is what makes us happy and apparently we had to move away to get our priorities straight. We still LOVE NEW YORK! We just enjoy it more as tourists...

Monday, July 21, 2008

u.n.w.i.n.d.

So we're doing a lot of stuff you do when you're brain-dead, physically exhausted, and camping out in a house full of nothing waiting for your stuff to arrive on the truck from New York.

A good friend made us dinner Friday night in Simi Valley. We got all 3000 miles of bugs washed off the car at the Sunset Carwash. Speaking of bugs, we had the house sprayed for silverfish. And speaking of cars, we test drove cars at the most fabulous Lexus dealer I've ever seen. It's in a building in Santa Monica dating back to 1928 and looks like a Spanish Mission. Check out these photos!!

We went to Joxer Daly's in Culver City for drinks with a group of friends. We hung out on 3rd Street Promenade in fabulous weather. And we've been catching up on our movies; "Hancock" (feh) and "Wanted" (better). We hit Maison du Pain and remembered they really do have fabulous pastries here; you just have to know where to get them.