5) (or whatever number I'm on from last blog post) - Driving time! -- so this is maybe one of my top
favorite changes. We used to live 30 seconds from the school. Literally. Like, I should've been walking to school, but that never happened. Take that environmentalist tomfoolery somewhere else for this one. It is a rare day in MS that you get beautiful walking weather in the morning AND afternoon. Plus I am "bag lady" going and leaving school. Plus I got cute shoes. ANYWAY,
When your "drive" is that short, you don't have time to take even one sip of coffee or listen to one second of radio. The second your butt settles into the seat it is time to get out of the car. I have thoroughly enjoyed my looooong and relaxing 10 minute drive to work. I even eat my breakfast in the car as I sip my coffee MULTIPLE times to the sound of NPR/MPB - and I get to hear the complete news story! It's truly fabulous. And it's extra fabulous the mornings Joe and I ride together (does this make up for us not walking to school?... I think so)
6) Driving time part 2 = phone time. I can make more phone calls now that I have some car time. In Tallahassee this was always the time I caught up with Mom or some friends. But since moving to Oxford I'm rarely in the car long enough to make a phone call as everything is only 3 or 5 minutes away.
7) Neighbors -- all you get from apartment neighbors is noise through the walls. We barely ever saw them. House neighbors you see occasionally and never have to hear them through the walls. (we had a guitar player on the other side of the bedroom back at the apartment). Also, (and this has made us feel super old) you might have an awesome neighbor that brings you tulips and cookies. Sue from New York is proving to be quite the friendly neighbor with excellent taste in flowers and desserts.
8) Light switches -- there are a million of them. We spent the first few days just figuring out what they do. But no matter how many times I go to turn a light off/on I still manage to try all the wrong switches first. It would be tacky to label them right?
8.2) Motion lights... this light switch had to be turned off. One night I thought we were getting robbed because I heard the screen door bang and then the motion light outside our bedroom kept blinking. This light has been turned off until we can get the sensor fixed or something because it had me creeping around the house peering out every window looking for robbers at 3 am. I don't know what my plan was if I'd actually seen robbers. Joe slept soundly until I poked him and informed him the screen door kept banging. He was unconcerned.
9) Entertaining - you don't invite people over for dinner in an apartment. . . at least not our weeee one. Sure, we had people come stay for the weekend but we didn't have people over just because. Especially since our other friends here have houses. But now, we can entertain guests. So far we've had 2 dinner nights with friends and 1 porch sitting afternoon with crawfish (and friends). The first couple that came over was Amber and Duncan. We set the table and then sat by the window waiting for them to get here... I felt like we were kids waiting for our birthday party to start. So excited.
Mike and Murry
Crawfish with Christine and Jarrot (sp?)
Spring breaking --not at our house. Just trying to make him look cooler than those house slippers did.
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