i forgot that you exist dear old blog of mine. Glad to see you're still floating in space. Maybe I'll start writing again...............................................

Sunday Love

2 things i know i am addicted to:

new crushes

&

amazing/overly expensive vintage pieces 

Somehow they both give me the same head rush. Is there a rehab for this?

nyc

go to my flickr at http://www.flickr.com/shellyhorst to check out a few pics. I will start posting again once I have a home and am not living in a hotel room in Gramercy with Brucelee...oh the drama. If you are a flickr member add me as a contact! 

highlights so far:

-moving rooms bc bruce angrily soiled the 1st room because I left the blinds open.

-high line park!!!

- Chelsea Market!

-Sparkling rose and cheese in Adeeb's new backyard- new friend and soon to be neighbor!

-Times Square people watching at midnight

Thanks for all the nice calls and emails. I know this will be a good move but like with everything else in life...I am skeptical. ha ha. 

ciao seattle

This is my last night in Seattle before I move to NYC. Which could be construed as a bummer if I weren't in such an autopilot mode right now. But I am mostly upset because I have decided to throw away my dry erase board. I feel like I need to start fresh in the city with a brand new board. Don't worry, I'm keeping the markers. But I am accepting new dry erase boards as apartment warming gifts...

Another item I am leaving behind is my favorite red shoes. I finally retired them, but not before taking a portrait. 

Goodbye red shoes and dry erase board. I will miss you more than you know. Oh yeah- catch ya later Seattle! Only in the Summer :).

The adventure continues...

WE GOT IT!!!!!

We just heard that we got our apartment in Fort Greene! There are so many angels involved in this process that I don't know where to start... but I will try to tell the story now. 

I spent an entire week  in Brooklyn looking for a place and not really finding anything. Jill came into town on Friday to interview for jobs and to look at places, but I was leaving early on Sunday morning so we had very limited time to look at places together. We looked at an amazing place on Friday evening in Williamsburg and decided we wanted to go forward with it. Only to find out that they did not allow cats. Our broker had not been listening at all (this is a recurring theme). So I was incredibly frustrated because there was an entire neighborhood that I wanted to show to Jill that she had never seen before and I could've scheduled some viewings for Friday night but we had cancelled because we thought we had found our place already. The email letting us know about the cat situation didn't come until about 7pm when it was too late. 

So the next day was packed with appointments startig at 9am and ranging all over prospect heights, Ft. Greene and Greenpoint for good measure. I knew at this point that I really wanted to live in Ft. Greene, I just had to make sure Jill felt the same way. So after looking at a bunch of places that weren't quite right, Jill and I started walking around ft. greene and went to eat outside at Habana Outpost... Jill fell in love. But it was 2pm on Saturday afternoon. How on earth are we going to get a place by the end of the day? We wanted to give up.

Mom emails: have you found a place yet?

I reply: not yet

she writes: We'll pray harder.

I go inside to use the bathroom.

Come back out and Jill is gone, our purses still at the table. I look around concerned, but find her around the corner of the fence talking to 4 people I have never seen before. I walk up and she introduces a couple that she knows from Seattle, they introduce their friends who live in Fort Greene. When did you move?- we ask, did you use a broker? Recently they say, actually the broker we used is right across the street. We look and there it is: location location location (literally the name). Jill says you stay here with our stuff, I'll go over talk to them. She comes back about 20 minutes later- they are calling people right now to see what we can look at, they have a lot available in this area! So begins our waiting. We walk over to the Ft. Greene flea market- which by the way is SO cute and definitely something we should do when you visit. We get ice cream and wait for Lori to call. Finally at 350pm she calls. I have 3 places lined up. Meet me on Fulton and Cumberland. So we go. It is a group of apartments that I have already seen before. and didn't like. So we walk closer to the park to view a "garden apartment" which by the way means basement apartment. but the owner isn't there yet to show it to us. So Lori is like, the next place is so amazing, but it requires vision. I haven't even shown it to anyone yet, but I feel like you two will love it. We like the idea, but are a bit scared about the "having vision" part. She takes us to a beautiful corner brownstone across the street from the park (literally- walk out front door cross street and you are in the park , or in the farmer market- which is what it is on Saturdays and Sundays!) We walk into the beautiful foyer with amazing architectural details and beautiful staircase. and walk up 4 flights to the apartment (skylight above outer apartment door over the staircase). Walk in to an almost completely renovated apartment. Perfect new floors, walls. No appliances yet (that's the vision part). Equal size bedrooms (this is something we had seen very little of- most places had one huge bedroom and one closet that they called a bedroom) new tile in kitchen and bathroom. Skylights, windows, park view. Long story short- most perfect apartment we have seen. and in our price range- miraculously. 

Mom tells me later that is exactly what she prayed for- something unexpected to happen that would lead us to the perfect apartment.  And now after a week of back and forth- we finally have the apartment! 

something good is going to happen

and it will hopefully look like this. 

'Squetos

I'm still allergic to NYC mosquitos... i have 2 huge welts from bites. one on my arm the size of a golf ball and one on my neck that is growing by the second. This is going to be a long summer. Oh and that photo above is my new home. 

Katie- I can't believe you actually own chickens. Unbelievable. Have i got a story for you...  http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.php 

panama part two

Me with the sea turtle. look close.

whales and whales

i have had a lot going on in the last few weeks, so sorry about the sparse postings... Mom and Dad are in town and we took a trip out to Orcas island to check it out this weekend. Here are some pics. 

view from our window at the Turtleback Inn



















A good samaritan found my phone next to my car and put it right here in the door handle. It looks like it was made to live there. a little iphone holster. We had a strange opportunity to return the favor on our way back we found a $20 bill next to a car, so we put it in the door handle too... hopefully it was the right car.

Some of the photos are from our bed and breakfast, some from whaling trip, some from turtleback mountain overlook- i'll leave it to you to decipher. hearts.

p.s. if you hear of a 2 bedroom apt available in bushwick lmk...

the universe.

wants me to move to New York City. Or Brooklyn to be more exact. Oh just when you think you know what you are supposed to do and where you are supposed to be...

photo taken in brooklyn approximately 9 months ago... it already knew. 

panama part one