...................................................................................................: moving out

we moved.it was a month on august 1st. but i'm just now getting around to writing about it. why? duh, because moving is freakin' hard and time consuming. and when i have had free moments, i tend to sit down very little...but write and read and research often. (i can trick myself into sitting down when i read though...two birds.)

so, this post is dedicated to our first home in tennessee (as homeowners and a married couple). we bought it before we got married in june 2012, gutted it completely, and moved our stuff in right before the wedding. it was a long summer. at the same time, we opened two new locations of my husband's restaurant, jonathan's grille, and both went to real estate school. oh yea, and i was writing my first novel...and songwriting.

i loved and still love the finished project. and i am so glad to have spent our first two years together (married at least) there. we lived a few blocks from west end avenue right next to vanderbilt university (go dores) and we could walk to baseball games in the spring--this year, the baseball team won the college world series, so we feel it's fitting that we all went out with a bang.

west end avenue was a mecca for my life (besides yoga, which is closer to where i live now). vanderbilt asthma, sinus, allergy program, VASAP, was just a quarter mile. and if you don't know me, that's where i go to get all my monthly shots/post-op appts for exactly what the name of the program suggests. and before you say it's tennessee...no, my body doesn't care where i am. i went to the er in los angeles for the same thing :(. but that's another post.

west end avenue also holds an amazing starbucks that mase and i frequented when we were wanting a date but not a date-date!

i met my grandmother at the panera that was connected to the chipotle...lots of small meals and long talks and cups of coffee there. of course, there are plenty of other locations for those two places, and we have taken full advantage, but you know how you attach yourself to a particular location? well, the memories won't leave me anytime soon!

in short, 134 acklen park drive, you will be missed. here are some photos from charlie's last walk around the neighborhood.