Still here, though I have to admit, FB has drained my will to blog. I find myself wanting to save LJ for Really Important Stuff and then when I sit down at the computer, I figure, ah, fuck it
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I love this update. I so lack the gumption to write something worthwhile for LJ now, which is hilarious given how unworthwhile so many of my posts were for so long. The times, they are achanged. While I'm not totally jealous of being stir-crazy and stuck and without power, I admit I'm a teense jealous of all the storminess going on out there. We've had bupkiss here in NYC, which is wrong wrong wrong, and the only power outages I've experienced in the city were in the summer due to too much AC usage on the hottest days. THOSE are not fun power outages, but I always loved wind storm outages when I lived in WA (note that I always lived in areas that got power back within a day or so -- my poor friends in Olympia have been without for days and days now
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So soon? It will have been more than eight years! New York was never going to be permanent; I've always known I'd return to the PNW. Papa, brother, friends, their babies, trees, climate, attitude, mountains...it's all a draw. But yes, baby-clock thing IS a factor. Mike's been here for more than 10 years and is ready to conclude his NYC adventure too. We long for a house!
The return flight from Hawaii makes me want to die. Leave midday, arrive 620 am in NYC, next day. GUH.
I do like it! It's not shitty lake-effect, hang-around-for-months snow, it just fucks us up for a week or so and then it's back to the rain.
I miss home terribly. But this place is effing gorgeous, Teej. And the dog has a huge yard with grass that doesn't scratch you or make you itch when you lie on it, and big trees, and a tunnel system made out of overgrown ivy, and none of that would be possible back in the desert.
The Rain and the Dark are a drag sometimes, but we've acknowledged it and do what we can. I'm taking a trip to CA in March, and we were home in November, and that helped. Plus I have invested unabashedly in warm fuzzy knee socks and lamps, and I can't believe how much of a difference that makes. The Rain and the Dark are really just the inverse of the Sun and the Heat, and everyone here has a similar response, a sneaking dread and feeling of inevitability, and then stoic bitchiness in the midst, and then mania on the days of reprieve. I really do feel like my surroundings turned inside out.
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So, yes. I would love to go sometime. I eagerly anticipate your pictures.
I am surprised you are considering moving back so soon! But I guess the baby-clock thing is a factor? And I can understand missing your Papa.
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The return flight from Hawaii makes me want to die. Leave midday, arrive 620 am in NYC, next day. GUH.
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I miss home terribly. But this place is effing gorgeous, Teej. And the dog has a huge yard with grass that doesn't scratch you or make you itch when you lie on it, and big trees, and a tunnel system made out of overgrown ivy, and none of that would be possible back in the desert.
The Rain and the Dark are a drag sometimes, but we've acknowledged it and do what we can. I'm taking a trip to CA in March, and we were home in November, and that helped. Plus I have invested unabashedly in warm fuzzy knee socks and lamps, and I can't believe how much of a difference that makes. The Rain and the Dark are really just the inverse of the Sun and the Heat, and everyone here has a similar response, a sneaking dread and feeling of inevitability, and then stoic bitchiness in the midst, and then mania on the days of reprieve. I really do feel like my surroundings turned inside out.
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