About May Globus
Vancouver City Editor May Globus is obsessed with the sartorial and all that surrounds it: art, design, culture, music and film. Oh, and she really likes writing about it, too. A left coast girl at heart, her Sweetspot finds just might show why the westside really is the best side.
Smooth Move
the view from vancity Vancouver
(Mar.31.10)
Well, Freesia, it was a good two and a half years.
After a two-year stint living the Angeleno lifestyle, I found myself back in Vancouver in 2007, going from west side living in Kits to downtown living in Yaletown -- with a new roommate -- in the matter of six months. I'll admits, I'm a city girl through and through, someone who loves that everything possibly needed is within walking distance: friends, the seawall, Gastown (a Canada Line away, rather!), Bistro Sakana, Tru Value Vintage and BeautyMark. My building is central, the gym is massive and the concierge knows every resident by name.
Then this year, something happened: my roommate and I grew up a little.
She bought a place at the end of last year, and deep down I already I wanted to live on my own for the past while (it's true what they say about the freedom of being able to walk around in your underwear). The reason for going solo was not because of my roomie -- she is the best roommate and friend I could've ever asked for -- but because it was time to be a real adult with my own real space.
For the past few days, I've been packing and purging, keeping the things dear to my heart (or that I know I'll wear again) and tossing what no longer fits in my life, the latter of which equalled two massive garbage bags of clothes and accessories, plus a pile of cloth shoppers that had been gathering dust (the goodie bag remnants of events gone by). My mind, body and soul felt relieved post-purge, like every ounce of me was ready to move onto a new phase in life in a new apartment -- four blocks away -- to call my own.
Sometimes closing a life chapter is easier said than done, but, oh, I can't wait for this next one to begin: new furniture, new decor, new me.
So, Yaletown Park I, here's to a good two and a half years.
I'll be seeing you tomorrow.