Oliver and I moved to Brooklyn this weekend! I'm very, very, very excited to be here. It's the top floor of a brownstone that's in really great condition. Compared to our Seattle place the apartment is quite small, but compared to NYC apartments, it's...almost medium.

Below are pics of the living room/dining room (though I only got the living room part) and the kitchen, which is cute and quaint.

One of the best parts of moving was being reunited with our things. We sold all of our furniture and put everything else in storage when we left Seattle, and our stuff sat in a container in some warehouse in Renton, WA for over a year. It's amazing what you forget you own in a year. It was like xmas every time we opened a box of things - there were boxes of books I forgot I owned, shoes I forgot I owned (I had no idea I owned so many shoes!), kitchen things I forgot I owned.

But probably the item I'm most excited to be reunited with is the last picture below - it's a bed cover that my parents got in 1977, in Rome, when were immigrating to the United States (moving from the Soviet Union, not Italy). I took it from them when I graduated from college and it's been with me ever since. It's golden and furry, and looks like wheat blowing in the wind during a summer sunset. Or, maybe it looks like what a really greasy single guy on the prowl for ladies would cover his black leather bed with. Or maybe it looks like Chewbacca exploded all over the bed.

It's so friggin kitschy, I can't get over it. My golden Roman bed covering.

I can't wait until we have a bed that I can cover with it!

Apparently, the hairdo rage at NY Fashion Week is the side ponytail.