Moving Sight Unseen

In about six weeks, I'll be moving from Tallahassee, Florida to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The closest I've been to Minnesota is Iowa, so everything I know about the city has come from the internet and advice from people who have been there. I've lived in Florida for over ten years, and before that I was too young for the places I've lived (Texas, Tennessee, California) to have a substantial impact on my life. I'm most nervous for the obvious insane change in climate, but I'm also excited and anxious to live in a real city and to get away from Florida... I'm probably one of the palest and most anti-beach Floridians there is, so maybe it will be a good change? At least that's what I'm hoping for. 

Moving sight unseen is obviously anxiety-provoking. The hardest part so far has definitely been finding a place to live. I stalked Craigslist for weeks and as my moving day got closer, I got more and more nervous that I wouldn't find a place to live. Then what would I do?! I'd be a girl in a U-Haul with two cats and a rabbit. Luckily I signed a lease Friday on a little one bedroom in Uptown that's only .5 miles from Lake of the Isles. I don't really know what any of that means since I've never been to Minneapolis, but from what I gathered Uptown was the right way to go. I'm terrified to not have a garage, but at least I got an off-street parking spot (also something I've never had to
  think about). Besides about five pictures, I don't know what my apartment looks like. And aside from about three phone conversations, I don't know what my job will be. But, as the quotes I've been seeing all over Pinterest assure me, when one door closes another opens, if your dreams don't scare you they're not big enough, and you can't have change without closing a chapter. As a creature of routine this is going to be insane in so many ways, but I'm (hopefully) ready to tackle it...