In response to a request by a dear friend to resume updating this blog with the craziness that is my life...here goes...
Update on my experience in Elmsford, NY May 2013
Jenna and I moved into a hotel for a week while we waited for Sequoia to move his stuff out of our sublet for May. Amazingly a week in a hotel with each other went pretty smoothly and we didn't kill each other! We lived sans fridge/microwave and that made for some interesting meals out.
I'm a huge fan of yelp and I found a little local, family-run place in the town we were in. We ventured out to eat after tasting some beer at the local brewery. When we arrived at the restaurant the valet showed up to take the car and after a brief spanish exchange he realized that we were in fact just eating and not moving in (despite having a completely loaded down car). As we got closer to the entrance Jenna noticed that everyone was dressed to the 9s. (Keep in mind that the menu online had entrees averaging $14-$24...nothing super "fancy") I was wearing a sweater and jeans and she had on a tshirt and jeans. We decided we would just sit at the bar and grab something quickly.
Upon entering the restaurant we noticed the average age was somewhere in the 70s and until we arrived the youngest person was probably ~45 and her husband was ~80. A cover band was playing some pretty awesome oldies and these senior citizens knew how to get down. It was delicious food and the music was great! The bartender was the owner's mother and she was a fan of the heavy pour. Thank goodness we just had a glass of wine because any liquor drink I'm pretty sure consisted of ice and said liquor! (which can be great sometimes but not when you have orientation at 8am!)
The day we were supposed to move into Sequoia's house he emailed saying that due to circumstances out of his control we couldn't move in until Sunday. We luckily got a room in the same hotel and got to move all our stuff from room 1 to room 2....yay!
Sunday May 12 we finally arrive at Sequoia's place in Norwalk, CT. Jenna moved in while I was at work and thank goodness it all went smoothly because by this point we were OVER Sequoia. (if we only knew he was going to make us crazy for the next few weeks)
The place was in a lovely neighborhood with a great yard and the house itself was split into 3 apartments. Sequoia is big into sailing so his place was full of ship sails, books, maps, etc.... It was rustic but at least we had a kitchen, washer/dryer, cable tv, etc.
Quick synopsis of the next 3 weeks at Sequoias.....
~He came by everyday but 4 to "grab something," work in his workshop, change cars, or just to annoy Jenna
~The exterminator showed up and informed us that Sequoia had been trying to catch rats for close to a year with no success...Lui proceeded to kill said rat in roughly 1 week....in the yard (no house sightings were made)
~My car got covered with tree sap and we spent a good 1.5 hours scrubbing it inbetween shifts while I proceeded to lose my mind
~The wiring was so ghetto rigged that we were thankful we escaped before blowing up!
~Wildlife we saw - wild turkey (they pecked our cars...wtf?? We unleashed the miniature dachshunds on them and that was quite a sight), chipmunk, deer, raccoon
Overall it ended up working out well, but it was quite a headache on a weekly basis.
