NY Skyline

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Living in NYC

I have made a New Years Resolution to use more social media tools (considering that's kind of my job) so I thought it would be fun to write a blog to keep you all updated on my life in the big City!


So far, my roommate (Katie) and I have pretty much gone through everything 2 girls living on their own for the first time could experience.

  • First night living here, we cleaned our floor with Clorox wipes because we didn't have any cleaner to mop it with
  • Our oven smells like gas when we use it (told my super, twice, so now if I blow up my building, its not my fault)
  • Our oven also doesn't fit full size cookie sheets
    • realized this twice in two days...had to pick up our nachos with 4 spatulas (yes we have 4 spatulas)  to transfer them to a smaller sheet
  • Our shower has 2 temperatures: scalding and luke warm
  • Our shower rod fell down and was lop-sided for at least a week
  • Our radiators are fairly scary
We've also had major problems with our bills:

  • It cost us $80 to have a cable wire run through my kitchen into my living room, I could have done it in 5 min.
  • Between the two of us we spent 3.5 days home waiting for Verizon to set up wifi
  • Verizon sent me an email telling me that my wifi was now set up and I would start being billed as of that date..I called them and told them that I was not set up and refused to pay for a service I wasn't receiving..they sent me to a representative in India. He "credited" me 5 days (my internet finally was hooked up 5 days later)
  • Our electric bill came, it was $700...that was a problem.
Other then those adventures things have been pretty cool:
  • I drop my laundry off to a little chinese man and come back 5 hours later to the most nicely folded clothes I've ever seen...all for $16 on average.
  • Bars are open til 4am
  • All food is open til at least 4am
  • I live above a 24hr diner
  • Umm...taxis?
  • Everything delivers for free
  • We get our groceries delivered
  • Walking everywhere makes you lose lots of weight
All in all, its been a great experience so far! Have a few little stories now, but I'm sure lots more to come!! Stay tuned :-)

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