The Apartment.
I have moved into a small apartment. I'm just sitting here, bored. I know no one in Albuquerque, except the innkeeper whom I met when I first got here (nice, but all business), and my apartment manager (nice, business-like, still really nice). My husband is still not with me...I hope to see him before too long. I am hoping he'll get here by Christmas Eve, anyway.
I'm enjoying the quiet time and the sunsets. It is amazing here like that, just what I've been missing living back east. Some old Utah friends found me that live two hours north of here, and I went to visit last Sunday. We hung out all day at Ojo Caliente Hot Springs and Spa, and it was just what I needed. I could go back again tomorrow, but I had to get Christmas presents boxed and mailed, and I've been taking care of other things, like updating my resume. And doing laundry.
Ah, the joy of living in a city with a Trader Joe's. I went to buy some Christmas package goodies for my parents and ended up buying a lot of stuff for myself. Delightful. My Christmas shopping is all done. I can do what I please with my days, and I've been shopping for little things for the apartment here and there, and hanging out on the internet. There was no internet to speak of at my sister-in-law's house, and even getting online with her dated dial-up service took a long, long time. Took me back to the 56K days, except it wasn't even that good...more like 28.8. Hated it. Even though I had great connections with the people in Kentucky, I felt good putting it in the rear-view mirror.
There are a lot of casinos here; I can take them or leave them. I am not a gambling crazed freak, but I do enjoy a few hours just hanging out here and there. Having been to Las Vegas so many times in my life, gambling is just not a big deal to me. It isn't even exciting to me anymore, and I thank my stars it isn't. When you go enough and understand that you will lose money more often than win, it does deter you from even making an effort to get out and go to a casino.
My sleep has been punctuated with bouts of wide awake-ness at 3:30, 4:15, or 5:00. I cannot get back to sleep after waking up. The following night I get all caught up and sleep really well. I hope this settles down a bit once I get used to being somewhere new. I'm not freaking out or stressing out about this move. In fact, once the decision was made for me to come west first, I felt an exquisite pang of relief...relief to be on my own, relief to be doing something productive after the moving plan-change, and the relief of just getting on with it all.
I've been alone for two weeks now. I am finding that I like it more than I thought I would...barring the sleeplessness.
I'm enjoying the quiet time and the sunsets. It is amazing here like that, just what I've been missing living back east. Some old Utah friends found me that live two hours north of here, and I went to visit last Sunday. We hung out all day at Ojo Caliente Hot Springs and Spa, and it was just what I needed. I could go back again tomorrow, but I had to get Christmas presents boxed and mailed, and I've been taking care of other things, like updating my resume. And doing laundry.
Ah, the joy of living in a city with a Trader Joe's. I went to buy some Christmas package goodies for my parents and ended up buying a lot of stuff for myself. Delightful. My Christmas shopping is all done. I can do what I please with my days, and I've been shopping for little things for the apartment here and there, and hanging out on the internet. There was no internet to speak of at my sister-in-law's house, and even getting online with her dated dial-up service took a long, long time. Took me back to the 56K days, except it wasn't even that good...more like 28.8. Hated it. Even though I had great connections with the people in Kentucky, I felt good putting it in the rear-view mirror.
There are a lot of casinos here; I can take them or leave them. I am not a gambling crazed freak, but I do enjoy a few hours just hanging out here and there. Having been to Las Vegas so many times in my life, gambling is just not a big deal to me. It isn't even exciting to me anymore, and I thank my stars it isn't. When you go enough and understand that you will lose money more often than win, it does deter you from even making an effort to get out and go to a casino.
My sleep has been punctuated with bouts of wide awake-ness at 3:30, 4:15, or 5:00. I cannot get back to sleep after waking up. The following night I get all caught up and sleep really well. I hope this settles down a bit once I get used to being somewhere new. I'm not freaking out or stressing out about this move. In fact, once the decision was made for me to come west first, I felt an exquisite pang of relief...relief to be on my own, relief to be doing something productive after the moving plan-change, and the relief of just getting on with it all.
I've been alone for two weeks now. I am finding that I like it more than I thought I would...barring the sleeplessness.
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