A Day of Excursion
Today I hung out with my friend, we went with her little girl to some thrift stores and for coffee, where we bumped into some one we both knew. It was all very grown up and fun. My hair was BIG today...my husband got up and started back combing it for some reason giving me a semi-fro.
Seriously.
So with my big hair and big glasses I explored the world...but was secretly wondering what was going to happen next in 'Death Comes to Pemberly' a novel I picked up at the library last week. I'm almost finished...I've never read anything by P.D. James ( a British writer) and it has been surprisingly un-put-downable. It's a cross between Austen and Clue: the board game. Or say, Austen's characters in a more Bronte style - but not hugely Gothic. Either way I'm enjoying it for what it is.
During our excursion I went to a couple of new places...a new thrift store and a new coffee shop. Both were fine and nice enough. I enjoy the conversation more than anything though, finding out more about people, their lives and families...it's all very interesting.
I never bought anything today, I just enjoyed seeing the town - with a fellow woman. The world is a different place through the eyes of a couple of female friends, than from the eyes of husband and wife. I enjoyed getting to hold her baby and do the predictable baby talk that spues from my mouth whenever I'm around cute little kids.
I like the feeling of appreciating the simple things like this.
We are coming up on some big changes in our household, exciting, but changes none the less and it will require tools and furniture we don't yet have. It is also a significant upgrade in my husbands work, which will give us much greater flexibility and time! That thing which has escaped us over the last few months. Time was locked away in an unbreakable safe waiting for the code to be cracked...soon the door will be flung open and it can fly to freedom.
I'm excited about getting the tools and furniture as many a wife would be. Having a healthy interest in recycling and refurbishing I've been checking out several different ways to make shelving and tables...although I maybe being a bit ambitious. We are still also in the throws of 'The Power of Art' project and have a giant canvas to paint, photographs to edit and poems to create.
As March approaches, I will have been in the US almost 7 months...it doesn't seem that long. It has gone quickly. I havn't passed my driving test as I'd hoped in the first week of being here! However I am feeling a lot happier and settled in my new life, when moving to a new country there is an adjustment period, the intial shock that EVERYONE around you is different. Finding friends in a fellow expat has helped a lot (although from a different country to me). It still helps to have someone to discuss and laugh at the differences in culture with. Some one who is experiencing the same challenges with greater or lesser confidence as situations arise. As my move here is a permanat one, it has seemed like a giant hurdle, settling in. Today I can honestly say I'm happy to be here and not anywhere else. I'm breathing in the early spring air full of sweet smelling blossoms and excited for the rest of my life.
Seriously.
So with my big hair and big glasses I explored the world...but was secretly wondering what was going to happen next in 'Death Comes to Pemberly' a novel I picked up at the library last week. I'm almost finished...I've never read anything by P.D. James ( a British writer) and it has been surprisingly un-put-downable. It's a cross between Austen and Clue: the board game. Or say, Austen's characters in a more Bronte style - but not hugely Gothic. Either way I'm enjoying it for what it is.
During our excursion I went to a couple of new places...a new thrift store and a new coffee shop. Both were fine and nice enough. I enjoy the conversation more than anything though, finding out more about people, their lives and families...it's all very interesting.
I never bought anything today, I just enjoyed seeing the town - with a fellow woman. The world is a different place through the eyes of a couple of female friends, than from the eyes of husband and wife. I enjoyed getting to hold her baby and do the predictable baby talk that spues from my mouth whenever I'm around cute little kids.
I like the feeling of appreciating the simple things like this.
We are coming up on some big changes in our household, exciting, but changes none the less and it will require tools and furniture we don't yet have. It is also a significant upgrade in my husbands work, which will give us much greater flexibility and time! That thing which has escaped us over the last few months. Time was locked away in an unbreakable safe waiting for the code to be cracked...soon the door will be flung open and it can fly to freedom.
I'm excited about getting the tools and furniture as many a wife would be. Having a healthy interest in recycling and refurbishing I've been checking out several different ways to make shelving and tables...although I maybe being a bit ambitious. We are still also in the throws of 'The Power of Art' project and have a giant canvas to paint, photographs to edit and poems to create.
As March approaches, I will have been in the US almost 7 months...it doesn't seem that long. It has gone quickly. I havn't passed my driving test as I'd hoped in the first week of being here! However I am feeling a lot happier and settled in my new life, when moving to a new country there is an adjustment period, the intial shock that EVERYONE around you is different. Finding friends in a fellow expat has helped a lot (although from a different country to me). It still helps to have someone to discuss and laugh at the differences in culture with. Some one who is experiencing the same challenges with greater or lesser confidence as situations arise. As my move here is a permanat one, it has seemed like a giant hurdle, settling in. Today I can honestly say I'm happy to be here and not anywhere else. I'm breathing in the early spring air full of sweet smelling blossoms and excited for the rest of my life.
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