Archive for September, 2007

Pictures (at last)

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Here are some long awaited pictures of our apartment. I took them about a week ago so things are in slightly better shape now (the trash on the deck is all gone, for one thing!). Please don’t ask me about how I dented my car when I hit a bush, or about the [...]

On new beginnings

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Rosh HaShanah has come and gone, and it’s 5768. Among many other things, this is a time when we think of the year that has passed, and the year that awaits. I’ve been thinking a lot over the last couple of days about new beginnings. There have been a lot of them [...]

Our town

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Here are some statistics on Novato, CA. “Sprawling” is putting it mildly, since the town is very spread out, but some neighborhoods are really pretty and there is a lot of open space:

We’ve already found a brewery and a winery, which I’m sure will be lots of fun for me once this whole pregnancy [...]

Moving sucks

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Between unpacking (which is sooo much harder to do while pregnant), buying and assembling new furniture, getting phone and cable service installed, and getting a new driver’s license (according to California, my name has remained Haselkorn, even though I changed it over five years ago, so now I have to go back to the DMV [...]

First Post

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Don’t worry, there will be plenty more to come once we’re out of our temporary housing situation. Stay tuned for pictures of cars and of our new townhouse, baby news, and random grousings about moving to the lesser west coast.

What happens when a native Brooklynite moves to California…