Carroll Gardens and such

I'm moving.

To a neighborhood I sometimes stroll for fun. I always dreamed of living there.

I think if you google "Perfect place for Danielle to live," this location might just pop up. (Okay, so MAYBE google doesn't know me that well yet, but if I were famous...)

I'm going to be sharing a room for only the second time in my life (the first time being when I lived in the dorm my freshman year). It'll be a challenge, but the roommate is great and so is the room.

We're on the border of Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. It was not the apartment, or even the location, we originally planned to get when we first started moving, but the Lord closes and opens doors in perfect timing, and just as the door to the other one closed, this one opened. We like it better :)

This neighborhood has all of the cool industrial stuff, which I love (call me weird...) BUT, it's also like 3 blocks from the Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill area, which happens to be my absolute favorite part of Brooklyn. We're right be the highest subway station in NY, so every time I come home, I get a full view of the city, the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge, the Ocean, etc... It's nice!

I'm continuously amazed the the things God provides and how, even when I start to doubt myself, he finds a way to prove to me that he is behind everything and I have been making the right decisions.

This apartment is going to save me over 200 dollars/month, NOT TO MENTION, it's walking distance from work...

and we have a patio.

sweet.

Some Fish and some Loaves of Bread...

I love watching the Lord provide, and sometimes, I don't even see where his provision comes from, therefore, I KNOW it is him, which is cool.

Basically, I somehow managed to pay my rent for November, and eat the entire month of October, and buy a metro card, and go home, and take off three days of work, and not do ANY outside work, or get any random checks from Jefferson Parish, and pay for fingerprinting with the DOE, among many other things. NOT TO MENTION, my job alone, if working all of my shifts 100%, doesn't even cover rent + metrocard by itself (so basically, I've never survived without outside jobs or help), but, SOMEHOW, I only had to borrow $100 to cover the rent at the beginning of the month. I've looked over and over and over at it, and I still have absolutely no idea how I managed to pay for anything. but I lived comfortably this month and am completely amazed at how this happened!

It's kinda like that whole "Feeding the 5000" story. The Lord has managed to stretch out resources so they somehow seem to go much farther than they appear to be able to. Cool stuff.