The first entry
Ok everyone, this is my new journal. Why did I get a new journal? because my old one was part of my old life, a life that i left behind quite literally. No longer do I live in the big city, struggling to survive the racism and poverty and stupidity. A traumatic experience (my cat Prince being killed viciously and for no good reason by a bunch of people who didnt even fucking know me and one person who barely did and then the planning of an attempt upon the lives of me and my boyfriend) forced me to relocate with my boyfriend (now fiancee) and our surviving cat, Mr. Pokie O'brien. A lot of horrible things happened to me and my boyfriend in that city, and that just was not the place for us. We were trying to relocate even before everything went to hell.
I feel like I'm truly on the way to becoming an adult, going from the maiden to the mother in a lot of ways. more than anything I think its a mindset and an attitude.
We live together by ourselves (with cat) in Santa Rosa, which is a beautiful, friendly small city of roughly 200,000, with a homocide rate of apparantly four killings last year. The atmosphere out here is totally different - people are outgoing, helpful, accepting and friendly. In the city, for example, me and my fiancee, who is Latino/Philipino/German mix could not walk down the street without being harrassed. People would yell out of their cars at us, stare and us and even get up and move when we sat down in their vicinity (on the bus or in the college classroom). This really sort of put a bit of a strain on our relationship - we're very affectionate people, but we couldn't kiss or hold hands in public without risking harrassment, and even then we got problems from people for even LOOKING like a couple. We came out here at the spur of the moment almost - we were staying with my grandmother who just cant deal with living with people - and were completely clueless about how accepting people were. I had never lived in this city before, only went here to go shopping, and Will had never even heard of this place. Anyway, as we walked through the town, not only did no one give us problems, but there are interacial couples EVERYWHERE. I nearly started crying once, I was so happy and relieved.
Santa Rosa, to us, is everything that was good about the city and everything that's great about the country put together. TONS of stores, that are HUGE. Lots of job oppurtunities (will is being hired by Radio Shack, I'm going to be hired by sears as long as I pass the drug screening...) and wonderful wonderful people. Like our favorite maintance guy Brad. Not only did he fix the stove, but stopped the fridge from leaking too. And he's going to GIVE US FURNITURE AND HAUL IT OVER. and he told me about a great place to get cars (I just got my permit). I've only met this guy once (my fiancee has met him twice) and talked to him on the phone a few times (he always calls to ask when is the best time to come over) and he's going to haul furniture for us? last "maintnance" person in the city I had to deal with cussed me out and harrassed me, and did a shitty job on top of that. I LOVE THIS TOWN.
Will and I have been together for four months now, and we bought some mead to celebrate, along with a very much failed dinner, lol. The mead is great ( my first time, believe it or not!) I could never find mead in the city, but out here its not to hard to get, and we already found FAYGO (a favorite soda of juggalos everywhere). We live in a beautiful neighborhood, in a small 16 family community with lots of kids running around who absolutely love us. We have an on site manager (one of the mothers) who is very friendly and helpful. Our apartment is HUGE (2 bedroom) and only 765 a month, with the landlord paying the water and garbage. We have a round table, two taquerias, a drive in burger, a 24 hour walgreens, an organic grocery store and meat market, a couple of delis, a mcdonalds, several resteraunts proper and two or three cafes right near us, along with a library within walking distance. and they let us check out things for A MONTH. and RENEW ONLINE.
And I have a new idea for a book. In a while i will also be making an LJ archive of my writings (ff.net shut down my page, wtf?). We have tons of food and stuff and my gran helps us out financially. And I reregistered to vote here, and my husband-to-be registered for the first time. We're really excited about voting for the local meassures and stuff. In the spring we're going to the JC (hopefully they have night classes). Thats pretty much a summary of whats going on - I'm going to switch completely to this journal and friend the lot of you here, and going to discontinue use of the old one (but not delete it). I will start updating now, with significantly less quiz results and more content than in the past.
Oh, and I just read "The Cat Who Robbed Bank" and "The Cat who brought down the house" by Lillian Jackson Braun (i've read all the series except the one I'm about to read) and am currently reading "The Wives of Henry VIII" by Antonia Fraser, which is fantastic. The newer Braun books i feel are a little lacking...
well, comment back if you wish. I do love comments and want to fill up this new journal with lots of them!
I feel like I'm truly on the way to becoming an adult, going from the maiden to the mother in a lot of ways. more than anything I think its a mindset and an attitude.
We live together by ourselves (with cat) in Santa Rosa, which is a beautiful, friendly small city of roughly 200,000, with a homocide rate of apparantly four killings last year. The atmosphere out here is totally different - people are outgoing, helpful, accepting and friendly. In the city, for example, me and my fiancee, who is Latino/Philipino/German mix could not walk down the street without being harrassed. People would yell out of their cars at us, stare and us and even get up and move when we sat down in their vicinity (on the bus or in the college classroom). This really sort of put a bit of a strain on our relationship - we're very affectionate people, but we couldn't kiss or hold hands in public without risking harrassment, and even then we got problems from people for even LOOKING like a couple. We came out here at the spur of the moment almost - we were staying with my grandmother who just cant deal with living with people - and were completely clueless about how accepting people were. I had never lived in this city before, only went here to go shopping, and Will had never even heard of this place. Anyway, as we walked through the town, not only did no one give us problems, but there are interacial couples EVERYWHERE. I nearly started crying once, I was so happy and relieved.
Santa Rosa, to us, is everything that was good about the city and everything that's great about the country put together. TONS of stores, that are HUGE. Lots of job oppurtunities (will is being hired by Radio Shack, I'm going to be hired by sears as long as I pass the drug screening...) and wonderful wonderful people. Like our favorite maintance guy Brad. Not only did he fix the stove, but stopped the fridge from leaking too. And he's going to GIVE US FURNITURE AND HAUL IT OVER. and he told me about a great place to get cars (I just got my permit). I've only met this guy once (my fiancee has met him twice) and talked to him on the phone a few times (he always calls to ask when is the best time to come over) and he's going to haul furniture for us? last "maintnance" person in the city I had to deal with cussed me out and harrassed me, and did a shitty job on top of that. I LOVE THIS TOWN.
Will and I have been together for four months now, and we bought some mead to celebrate, along with a very much failed dinner, lol. The mead is great ( my first time, believe it or not!) I could never find mead in the city, but out here its not to hard to get, and we already found FAYGO (a favorite soda of juggalos everywhere). We live in a beautiful neighborhood, in a small 16 family community with lots of kids running around who absolutely love us. We have an on site manager (one of the mothers) who is very friendly and helpful. Our apartment is HUGE (2 bedroom) and only 765 a month, with the landlord paying the water and garbage. We have a round table, two taquerias, a drive in burger, a 24 hour walgreens, an organic grocery store and meat market, a couple of delis, a mcdonalds, several resteraunts proper and two or three cafes right near us, along with a library within walking distance. and they let us check out things for A MONTH. and RENEW ONLINE.
And I have a new idea for a book. In a while i will also be making an LJ archive of my writings (ff.net shut down my page, wtf?). We have tons of food and stuff and my gran helps us out financially. And I reregistered to vote here, and my husband-to-be registered for the first time. We're really excited about voting for the local meassures and stuff. In the spring we're going to the JC (hopefully they have night classes). Thats pretty much a summary of whats going on - I'm going to switch completely to this journal and friend the lot of you here, and going to discontinue use of the old one (but not delete it). I will start updating now, with significantly less quiz results and more content than in the past.
Oh, and I just read "The Cat Who Robbed Bank" and "The Cat who brought down the house" by Lillian Jackson Braun (i've read all the series except the one I'm about to read) and am currently reading "The Wives of Henry VIII" by Antonia Fraser, which is fantastic. The newer Braun books i feel are a little lacking...
well, comment back if you wish. I do love comments and want to fill up this new journal with lots of them!