The Biggest Event Of The Year, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Unquestionably, girls, for yours truly, the biggest, most memorable event of 2012 was, and will forever be, the May22-23 move from Woodside, where I had resided for the past 15 years, back to a place I had lived in earlier, and always longed to return to--Bay Ridge.  With Monsieur, of course, leaving his place on Bethune Street in the Village, to make this now a two person household.

                                   The funny thing is, when I moved to Woodside in 1997,  (partly out of inexperience and naivete!!!)  there was a sadness, and a longing for Bay Ridge that was painful for years, and, though subsiding, never fully went away.  I always looked back on Bay Ridge during my years in Woodside.  So that, when I finally pulled out of Woodside, and came back here, there was NO looking back; I do not regret leaving Woodside, and haven't the remotest curiosity about going back to have another look.  As I told Monsieur, the only thing that would get me on the Number 7 Train to go back to Queens would be to dine at Manducatis , which is in Long Island City!  Which we have not, for ages, and which I plan to do in the forthcoming year!

                                   We have been in Bay Ridge now for just over seven months.  We have been through a housewarming, and a major hurricane!  With bizarre commuting experiences for me, as a result!  But when both of us return to the neighborhood, we feel we are in civilization!!!!!!!!!!!!  And have no regrets.

                                     May we continue to live here for a long time!  Longer than when I lived in Woodside!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     No other event topped it for us, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!