Well, firstly, let me say – Happy New Year!!! Pretty strange that its midday here and it’s already 2010 in Australia and Singapore….and everyone in Europe is starting to get their glad rags on quaff a few glasses of champagne! Also strange to think I’m in New York…and it’s snowing!! Check out the pics attached I took outside my office this morning.
I’ve had a few visitors over the last week and can’t sleep at the excitement for “The Harv” to arrive this time tomorrow!! All my gear is arriving from Singapore next week, I move into my new apartment on Monday and I have just signed up for gas, electricity, doctor, dentist, psychic, back-hair remover etc etc. New York is well and truly becoming home!!! And despite it being frickin cold here and all I want to do is stay inside, watch DVDs and eat copious amounts of food, i’ve pulled my finger out, hit the gym and just managed to get into my first pair of 33inch waist jeans since I was 14!!! This was a very fun experience with the gay assistant in Diesel where we talked about how my “ass” and my “package” fitted in the different styles of jeans!!
Despite moving to a country where the majority of people don’t have passports and have never been abroad (I just made that up, maybe I should post it on wikipedia?!), I still have the travel bug and hit the “beach” in Miami 2 weeks ago (although it rained and was miserable for half the trip) and am heading to the greatest city on earth in a couple of weeks, where grown men become like little boys in a playground…fondly known as “Vegas”…ahhhhh!!! Want me to put a bet on for you?
And I’ve met a girl!! Her name is Emily (but I call her Frankie cause she speaks French and is a Yankee). She’s a native New Yorker, 25, works at the NYC ballet is great fun. She laughs at my jokes, likes to cook me dinner and puts up with my strange bathroom habits – she must be a keeper!!
Xmas Day, I cooked a 15lb turkey (the smallest I could find in this obese nation) for originally 4 people and finally 10. We barely dented it, but all the food and drink went down very well.
NYE will be spent eating and getting very very drunk at a friend of Emily’s who owns a restaurant in the very trendy Chelsea Market.
If you ever want to call me, you can catch me on +1 646 269 3323
And if you want to send me a moving in card/present, or just tell me that you love me via the ancient form of snail mail, you can send to my new apartment
55 West 11th St
Apartment 7c
New York
NY, 10011
All my best from 2009 and into 2010
J x
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