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My First Decade in NYC

This month marks the end of my first decade as a New Yorker. It's really strange to think that I have been here for ten years. So many things have filled those years - incredible experiences and adventures, relationships and heartbreaks. 

Since I have been journaling since I was nine, I thought it would be fun to go back and read through the things I wrote during that first year, and since sharing an experience only increases your enjoyment of it, I thought it would be extra fun to share my journal entries (at least, portions of them) with my friends on Conversant Life. 

So for the next year or so, I'll periodically share entries from my journals. Join me as I re-visit Christy Tennant, age 23...

2/2/99

I am so out of touch with this journal! Without going into every detail (hopefully memory will serve...), I am now all set to move to NYC next week. I am not going to be in Hoboken with Shaun; instead, I am going to sublet Kim C.'s apt. in Manhattan for 3 months while she is in Wisconsin doing Show Boat. The rent is going to be $500, which I am very nervous about - its the most I've ever had to pay! But apparently the location is superb, so it should be great...

Today I shot a national commercial for  Advance Auto Parts. Jamie, my agent, booked me for the shoot... the commercial will feature Jeff Gordon, the Nascar bigshot, but he didn't make it to today's shoot due to the weather...

My parents are being so supportive of my move - I am so grateful for that!

Comments

Couple of things. The apt. was at 73rd and Columbus (Upper West Side) - superb location, indeed! And I had TOTALLY forgotten about being in that Advance Auto Parts commercial. Honestly, I don't think I ever even saw it. The next time I "reconnected" with Jeff Gordon was when I was working at Elizabeth Arden's corporate office (2005-2007). He was a spokesperson for one of their men's colognes, and I saw a poster of him every day.

You did a commercial with Jeff Gordon? Very cool, Christy ;)

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A New Yorker for nearly ten years, Christy Tennant rides the Staten Island Ferry several times a week. She never tires of the boats in the harbor, watching seagulls in flight, the Statue of Liberty, and the Manhattan skyline.