1. Moving to Boston. I think I dislike moving about as much as I like traveling. I am going to have to rent a van and drive all my boxes up there. Not looking forward to eight hours of driving followed by immense amounts of hauling, all with very little help.
2. Finding a roommate. The search is still on, yielding several possibilities, but nothing can really happen until I am actually in Boston. Which means that when I get back I pretty much have to move there IMMEDIATELY to start interviewing potential roommates.
3. Dealing with my real adult relationship (yes that's right). This includes figuring out an eventual compromise on a place to live, how to see each other when we are thousands of miles apart, etc.
4. Trying to figure out how to balance my priorities of my happiness and career, friends, family, and my relationship so that all get treated at least fairly equally. THIS IS REALLY HARD.
Okay, had to get that out, all these things have really been weighing on my mind recently. In more bouncy news, I've obviously been having a fantastic time here despite the fact that Andrew has to work almost non-stop every day. I've taken a few little trips to Bondi Beach (yum) and Watsons Bay (see pics below) to explore, and hung out a lot with his mom, which has been amazing. We have done SO much grocery shopping together (and I know this can be difficult to believe, but I think grocery shopping is the most fun thing ever), and we cook and bake all the time.
View of the Opera House from the ferry over to Watson's Bay...
I walked to the top of that cliff to get a spectacular view!
I absolutely adore the Sydney skyline from a distance, especially set against the foreground of all the moored boats.
Last week, the weather was incredible and I probably walked for at least an hour every single day just because I was enjoying being outside so much, but this weekend, the weather unfortunately took a turn for the worse, and it has pretty much been pouring and chilly every day since last Friday. On Saturday morning, though, I still got up early to go to the Grower's Market, which has all sorts of delicious samples of breads and fruits and jams and sweets. I walked back through Chinatown, happily gorging myself on the RIDICULOUSLY GOOD sweet rolls that you can pick up from any tiny bakery there. I can not express how good Chinese bakeries are here.
I've also been going to step and yoga classes, which are hugely different and both provide really interesting and invigorating workouts. I have really enjoyed the opportunity to cook every single day, and it's been such a great bonding experience for me and Andrew's mom. Below is a picture of a SACHERTORTE, the most complicated cake I've ever made. It has this glossy chocolate ganache frosting that was absolutely divine. I was so proud of it!
It is of course wonderful to see Andrew, and the time we get to spend together feels even more precious now than it did before. But we are definitely out of the fairy tale travel portion of our relationship (at least for now), and unlike this summer, this trip to Sydney kind of symbolizes the end of my carefree "gap time", as opposed to the comfortable middle of it. As soon as I return home, I will be thrust into all sorts of tense and grueling situations, and I'm struggling a little to find the positive. But being a real adult is about learning to cope with difficulties and deal with them in a mature manner, so that's obviously what I am going to try to do!
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