We’ve finally done it! After well over 5  years of planning, Casa LoGalbo has finally made the big move! Where to, you may ask? A place where the bugs come in sizes and colors that I have never seen before but the skies are blue and the clouds are fluffy white and our back yard has a couple of palm trees in it. Welcome to Fort Lauderdale(ish) baby!

Having lived in Northern Virginia for way too long, it’s just in my nature to reference the city that everyone knows best so that I didn’t have to give explicit instructions as to where we actually lived. Something like this:

You: “So where do you live?”
Me: “Woodbridge.”
You: “Oh, never heard of it. Where’s that?”
Me: “Do you know 95 South? Where the Ikea is? That’s Woodbridge.”
You: “Man that’s a hike! The traffic sucks down there! I only go to Ikea when I absolutely need……”

And the conversation inevitably turns into our favorite items at Ikea and butchering the names like every other person who does not understand what umlaut and accents can do to a word.

Whereas if it had gone something like this:

You: “So where do you live?”
Me: “DC.”
You: “Oh cool. I love/Have you ever been to/Do you know…”

But the conversation can continue with going down some rabbit hole of Swedish meatballs and trading your top 10 horrific traffic moments.

At any rate, I’ll just leave it as Fort Lauderdale cause for the most part people know where that is…unless you are from or familiar with the area and then we can dive into the local haunts and thrift stores that I need to learn about and fall in love with.

But back to the move.

We finally did it! Actually it’s been a long drawn out process, but as I told D last night, once the dog is with us and not dogcationing in the kennel then it’s really real. And there he lays, napping on his new bed in a room with little to no furniture. Yep it’s official. We moved.

So my goal is to kickstart this blog again. With a to do list longer than Santa’s naughty list, I’ll be plenty busy for a while. Right now I need to kickstart myself off this couch that’s pushed back into the corner and organize a few things. Jack has already made himself at home and barks at the new washer and dryer since the sound are new to us both.

While the house is still empty, I need to finish taking some before pictures. It should be a lot of fun looking back at where we started and how things progress. But first…I need to straighten out the stuff that we carted down with us…

Fittingly enough, Pandora is playing Home. 🙂