"She needs wide open spaces, room to make her big mistakes. She needs new faces. She knows the high stakes." -Dixie Chicks, Wide Open Spaces
It has been a week to the day since my move. It has been simply wonderful.
I had this great idea in my mind that I would move in on Sunday and be completely unpacked by Tuesday. I am such a moron. That is in addition to working a twelve hour day on Monday to prepare and run inventory at my store. I guess I was planning to forgo sleep in order to unpack boxes. Things are coming together slowly, but just the way I want them to. It is amazing to be so close to work. Kylie has settled into her new YMCA summer camp effortlessly. Maybe soon I will be able to breathe that huge sigh of relief that I have been holding in. It's getting close.
In the past seven days, I have learned a lot of really cool things:
(1) Moving to the suburbs instantly makes me want to host a cookout in my backyard, even though I don't own a grill and I don't really know enough people to invite (yet).
(2) It is actually possible to have really cool neighbors. You know, the kind that you can borrow a cup of sugar from without worrying that they are going to lace it with rat poison before they give it to you. I have also already met the neighborhood creepy-guy (he is across the street and diagonal to the right). But the sweet grandmother-ly lady who is across the street and diagonal to the left has already invited me to church, and I think I'm going to take her up on it this morning. It was on my list of places to find once I settled in.
(3) I really can live without a dishwasher. And knowing that I had to hand wash the dishes that were sitting in my sink morphed me into my mother faster than I ever could have imagined. I suddenly cannot stand nastiness in my kitchen.
(4) Having a front porch to drink coffee on in the morning trumps all of those extra closets that I gave up. Being creative with my space is way more fun than hiding things behind closed doors. Also, I have twice as many windows here which translates into twice as much sunlight!
(5) I have entirely too much crap. This is after I donated massive amounts of stuff to Goodwill while I was packing.
(6) Coming home late at night from work to a house is way scarier than an apartment, especially when you can't remember where any of your light switches are.
(7) I can play my music really, really loud, and no one can hear it next door.
(8) My brain isn't so obviously dark and murky when I don't have two hours in my car everyday to get lost inside of the thoughts that lurk in there.
(9) A Rainmaker shower head just might complete my life.
(10) It is truly possible to put things behind you when you move far, far away from them.
In a way, I feel like I have moved to another planet. It's nice here (even though all of the cable channels are different).
:)
3 comments:
i'm so glad you're settling in & loving the new place in spite of the creepy neighbor & scariness in the dark. that one's easier to solve though- leave an outside light on before you go out (or install motion sensor lights) and place a couple night lights close to the entrance. some of those things can hold 20 watt bulbs, so they're pretty bright & helpful.
yay for less murk in the brain!
have fun creatively unpacking! our last house had a total of 2 closets so i had to get creative with storage in the house & here, we have a total of 1 & it's downstairs in brooke's room. i think i need to get a privacy screen to hide all the junk in the space that's serving as a closet.
your list of pros is so much longer than your list of woes that i think this move is going to be mostly awesome for you... as long as you don't get in any more fights at gas stations. =)
Glad for you. As I continue DIY renovations, I too am hoping soon that I can breathe that big sigh of relief.
Sunlight in your house can make up for so much.
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