Well, it’s official. My Charlie Brown Christmas tree is up at work, and my desktop background has been changed…
…it’s the holiday season. I could not be happier. I’m that obnoxious ray of freakin’ sunshine who goes a bit nutty over the holidays. I love the movies, the music, Christmas shopping… everything! That asshole who somehow finds an occasion to blare Christmas music or integrate Egg Nog into every meal? That’s me.
Sorry.
I have improved over the years. For example, two years ago in OCTOBER, I negotiated (as a part of my birthday gift) a viewing of A Muppet Christmas Carol while Patrick and I carved pumpkins. For Halloween.
I know. It’s shameful.
I was able to hold off until the night before Thanksgiving but no longer. So while I was whipping up a few things for the Murphy Thanksgiving Dinner…
…I was singing along with Gonzo, Rizzo, Fozzi, and the rest of the Muppet gang, because I’m an over-excitable nerd that can’t seem to help herself around anything associated with Yuletide and merry-making.
But aside from the usual activities associated with this time of year, like putting up the tree and decorating the apartment with Christmas decorations, a lot of other things have been afoot in the Murphy household. The month of November was not only the first month of my job here, at LivingSocial, but it’s been a month where Patrick and I sat down and said, “What do we really want? Other than candy. And Dexter dvds?”
We want things to be better in our lives. A nicer home. Nicer furniture. We’re married you know? We’d like a few grown up things to go along with it.
Then we found it. A beautiful, wonderful place that we can embrace as our very own.
With a fireplace.
And a bathroom the size of a bedroom.
And a washer and dryer in unit. And bay windows. And a balcony. And a huge kitchen. And, and, and… basically it’s heaven. It’s a heavenly little place that was seemingly designed just with us in mind. If it were a person, I would hug it.
It was the first time I walked into an apartment and really felt like it was a home — a place we would actually stay at and love. Plus, hello, do you SEE THE SIZE OF THAT BATHROOM?
I know, it’s ridiculous to get this bent out of shape over a bathroom, but the constant elbowing Patrick and I do every morning while I apply eyeliner and he brushes his teeth… togetherness is great and all, but that’s a bit much.
It feels so great to know that together we found a home. A place that’s ours, that we picked out together. Where I can see future holiday seasons, birthdays, get togethers, etc. While my home is always where Patrick is, it’s great to have finally found a home base, too.
Even if it is in the suburbs.
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No seriously. That does look like an awesome bathroom.
And I too am a huge, way-too-early-to-celebrate, Christmas-time chick.
Jolly-ers unite!
Dear lordy, that bathroom. I WANT TO GO TO THERE. Congrats on the new home, from a fellow Christmas fanatic!
Love the place! Congrats!
Looks like an awesome place! Any apartment with a fireplace is an immediate win. Enjoy!
Huge huge huge win on the apartment front
I know exactly what it’s like to figure out what you – as a couple want 
That’s how we ended up in Annapolis 
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU BTW!!!!
Congrats on the new home! Take it from me, you will like the ‘burbs. It’s so nice. Not to be a cheeseball, but it’s really a community feeling that doesn’t exist in the city. And the giant bathroom? So worth it! Also, a washer/dryer in your unit is a MUST. I once had them on the back porch. Not ok.
Adults dig suburbs. MAZEL TOV on the new place! <3
Congratulations on the new home! It looks awesome – and I would KILL for a laundry unit IN the apartment instead of in my building’s garage! Happy holidays!
It’s not officially a suburb unless you’re at least 30 miles out from a beltway exit. Just sayin’ because I had to deal with a lot of dc haters when I found a cheap rental in Holmes run of falls church. “Why did you move to the suburbs” and noise like that. “Cuz we have representation in Virginia” was my standard reply. That and anacostia gangbangers stay the help away.