Happy Anniversary to the boy with 1180 photos in my library - my silly, loving, encouraging, supportive, handsome, stylish, adventurous, and sleepy husband of 9 years. I love you @alexthebez 💖
So thrilled to finally share the dream project I've been working on for the last year. It honestly still doesn't feel real to me that such an insanely talented group of artists entrusted me to produce their vision. It's been a privilege every moment I get to work on this project, and until the day I die I will thank my lucky stars that @linziecal and @me_work_here and @jackdavisdp took a chance on me. So many more people to thank soon 💖😭🎞️
Missing and loving all the wonderful New Yorkers I took photos with last month, and all the ones I forgot to take photos with.
Song choice because my therapist said I was talking about leaving NY like it was a breakup
I moved to New York in 2010. I have lived here longer than anywhere else in my life and assumed I'd spend the rest of it here. It was the city I dreamed about growing up, and still do. It's where I was broken and resurrected, got married, met more people I love than I can count, and discovered what I wanted to do with my life. It's what I mean and think of when I say "home."
But after 14 years, my grip on the merry-go-round is slipping. @alexthebez got a dream job in California, the kind he'd be stupid to turn down and I'd be selfish to discourage him from accepting. And so it's time to say goodbye to all that (sorry had to) and promise that someday I'll come back home. I also promise to make the best of it out west.
We're leaving in mid-July. Would love to share more time in the Best Place on Earth with y'all before we head out.
The second photo is the earliest one I have of myself in New York, circa 2013. Before that I didn't have an iPhone.
Breaking my IG silence to share some pics of @alexthebez on our anniversary. He banned me from reciting poetry after our 4th date, so I can't quote Keats or Shakespeare or Auden or any of the writers that come to mind when I think of the soul-encompassing, mind-bending, life-altering, befuddling love I feel for him. Instead I'll just share some photos.
1 - My most recent photo of Alex.
2 - The only photo on my phone from our wedding day, Feb 17, 2017, where Alex had the foresight to unlock my phone and take a selfie.
3 - My first photo of Alex, circa 2013, at my old apartment.
4 - A screenshot from a recent Facetime where we couldn't stop smiling at each other.
