I am lucky indeed. Cold weather aside, maybe even snow. Well, definitely snow from what I am told, I get to have another adventure. This one is a big upside down. Or maybe not. Follow my thinking if you will. It seems the home when one spends most of their time should be the larger home. One with nooks and crannies, maybe even built-ins. Apartments have none of these, especially if they are relatively new. They offer other worthwhile conveniences like underground parking, a community room for folks to gather in the New England winter. A small exercise room, even.
Some four plus months later, I am still beginning. Last evening as I was speaking with a new friend, it dawned on me. I am trying to fit pieces from another life into this new one. Some just don't fit.
Neighbors where my mountain home is told me they get rid of all their living room furniture every time they move. They buy inexpensive furniture, too. Unlike me. At any rate, they buy a new sofa, chairs, maybe an end table or two, lamps, and new dining room furniture. They say it doesn't cost them too much as they sell the 'old' stuff. Maybe I should have left my stuff in North Carolina in the first place. But as I always say, we are where we are til we aren't. I can already hear the laughter from readers. They know this is familiar.
Today I am thinking the same thing except gifting my furniture to my children instead of selling it. I am more than ready for the next adventure. So I shall sit on this for a while, maybe even rethink this as I often do these days. The once definitive gal is now the new more open, flexible gal. This or that, yes and yes, yin and yang. It is all coming together. It all works. My quetzalcoatl.
Comfy is in. Maybe I will even shock my family and finally buy a flat screen tv, stereo system and create the room of my dreams.
Viva la vida.
P.S. Do not be too surprised if I write another blog explaining why I kept things status quo. Does any of it really matter?
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