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Nov. 5th, 2007 09:44 pmYou know, in the four years I lived in Indiana on Standard Time all year long, I didn't miss Daylight Savings Time one tiny little bit. Now that I have a small child, I absolutely long for the halcyon days where we weren't forced to disrupt our biological clocks twice a year for no good reason.
Lordy, it's been a bad two days. You wouldn't think one hour would make such a difference, but K is absolutely discombobulated. I'm sure a lot of the reason that it's hitting her this badly is that she also has a rotten cold, but I hate to think what she would be like if we actually had to stick to any particular schedule.
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So we decided to take the first house we saw on Friday. Yay! This means we have to pack up and move again. Boo! But I'm looking forward to the new house despite the fact that we have to move all of our crap again. The neighborhood is really nice. I'm looking forward to living on a block quiet enough to let K ride her tricycle down the street. We also have a larger front yard, big enough to get a small play structure for K next summer. The interior of the house is a bit smaller than our current house, but it's laid out much better. And did I mention we only have to walk half a mile to be in the middle of the woods?
I have to admit, while I don't enjoy the thought of moving, it's nice to have something to be excited about. After such an awful, awful summer, I'm restless with the need to change something, anything to make life different and maybe a little better. I know that moving to a different house won't be a magic cure for what ails me*, but it will at least solve some the things about our current neighborhood that make me unhappy. It combines the worst of the city and the suburbs. We have the crowding, lack of plants and dirtiness of the city, but it's mostly residential with little worth walking to so we still have to drive everywhere. The new neighborhood is entirely residential so we'll still have to drive a lot, but at least it will have the cleanness, greenness and safety of the suburbs (er, without actually being in the suburbs. In any other city that hadn't expanded like a giant amorphous blob eating everything in its path, most of our part of the city would be suburbs). It's a trade I'm happy to make.
*What would cure what ails me? Um, a magic time machine that could bring my father back alive and healthy, I guess. That and an instant matter transporter that would let us visit our family and friends back home without having to take the time to travel. So nothing available in this reality.
Lordy, it's been a bad two days. You wouldn't think one hour would make such a difference, but K is absolutely discombobulated. I'm sure a lot of the reason that it's hitting her this badly is that she also has a rotten cold, but I hate to think what she would be like if we actually had to stick to any particular schedule.
***
So we decided to take the first house we saw on Friday. Yay! This means we have to pack up and move again. Boo! But I'm looking forward to the new house despite the fact that we have to move all of our crap again. The neighborhood is really nice. I'm looking forward to living on a block quiet enough to let K ride her tricycle down the street. We also have a larger front yard, big enough to get a small play structure for K next summer. The interior of the house is a bit smaller than our current house, but it's laid out much better. And did I mention we only have to walk half a mile to be in the middle of the woods?
I have to admit, while I don't enjoy the thought of moving, it's nice to have something to be excited about. After such an awful, awful summer, I'm restless with the need to change something, anything to make life different and maybe a little better. I know that moving to a different house won't be a magic cure for what ails me*, but it will at least solve some the things about our current neighborhood that make me unhappy. It combines the worst of the city and the suburbs. We have the crowding, lack of plants and dirtiness of the city, but it's mostly residential with little worth walking to so we still have to drive everywhere. The new neighborhood is entirely residential so we'll still have to drive a lot, but at least it will have the cleanness, greenness and safety of the suburbs (er, without actually being in the suburbs. In any other city that hadn't expanded like a giant amorphous blob eating everything in its path, most of our part of the city would be suburbs). It's a trade I'm happy to make.
*What would cure what ails me? Um, a magic time machine that could bring my father back alive and healthy, I guess. That and an instant matter transporter that would let us visit our family and friends back home without having to take the time to travel. So nothing available in this reality.
