Thinking about life in Charlotte and this move. Rob and I have both been traveling a lot and since our stuff still isn't here, I really don't feel like we live here yet. My mom is visiting for a few days and our new mattress arrived the other day, so I think we're finally taking some steps toward feeling like residents of North Carolina.

Listening to one of my favorite Pandora radio stations--it's Kate Nash and Regina Spektor with some Florence & the Machine and Feist. It's so good and I always listen to it in the fall or, like now, when I can't wait for fall. 

Loving our new apartment and the building itself--we have an awesome gym and there are two classes a week in the spin room! I went to one yesterday and the day before that, my mom and I actually walked into the city from my neighborhood, which was so nice. I think we're going to be really happy here.

Trying to get back into the swing of things with this blog and life in general. Things have been so weird lately and I had no idea that not having a physical desk to sit down in front of would make posting regularly so hard. I'm always telling myself that my schedule is flexible and that I can work from anywhere, which is mostly true, but it's been a long month of no routine and I'm really feeling it. 

Looking forward to...can you guess? Where the hell is our stuff? I can't wait for that moving truck to get here so we can finally move in and start calling this place home! But I also am looking forward to my birthday next week and shortly after that, my friend Tina is getting married! I've never been a bridesmaid before and I'm so excited about her wedding weekend.

What have you been up to currently?

Thanks to my friend Dani for inspiring these posts. 

Photo (from our wedding) by V.A. Photography.

Hi everyone! I want to apologize for being so absent here since our move to Charlotte. We're still waiting on our things to arrive, and it's been kind of hard to work out of a hotel. Luckily we bought a new bed and a sofa, so we can at least stay at the new apartment until the movers get here.

Lavazza recently sent me a new Keurig and some Lavazza K-Cups, which I immediately set up in the new place, so while we may not have a bed, at least we can have coffee! They're giving the same gift, along with a $50 Visa gift card, to one lucky Freckled Italian reader. Enter below--and good luck!

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When I was a junior in college, a boy broke up with me and my roommates piled me into a car with them and drove to Richmond together for the weekend. It was October or maybe November, and we all had scarves and big sunglasses. We ate Thai food and walked around Carytown and I bought a dress that I still wear sometimes today. 

For some reason, I thought about that trip a lot on my drive from Charlotte to Richmond for Tina's bachelorette party last week. I thought about the past, the present, and the road ahead. Where I've been; where I'm going. At the time I was so sad but I look back at that weekend as such a fun time with my friends that was much-needed in so many ways.

This week we went to Dewey Beach on Wednesday and drank for free and ate french fries every day and decked Tina out in a little veil and a bachelorette sash before going to see the best 90s cover band. On Sunday we rode home and slept in the backseat before getting back to Richmond where, as usual, we ate Thai food and walked around Carytown.

Some days it feels like everything is the same but most days I can't believe how far we've all come. It's so nice to know that through every season of life, there are friends here and there who feel like family.