Making a Home ./...Staying close takes work

I have been loving my new home ....feel like a grown up with great furniture. Things here are great..... and I feel really happy and comfortable here.
Things that have made me laugh.....
1. The fact that I am a bike commuter....and on the wrong side of the road too boot. As I commute through car traffic I think..."Wow this is soo odd that this seems soo normal to me now."
2. I am happy to have found a cheaper huge supermarket place open really early and late and just behind my house not to far away. I have to work at not buying too much as I am riding on a bike. Last night my bike was loaded with a huge bag in my back basket and my handle bar loaded with bags...it was soo funny I was so wobbily (if my family saw me they would think...what have you done with our Reb)....
3. I have a washer/dryer machine which is great...but it is in the same machine and so far I have learned that the dryer aspect to my washer machine only cooks the clothes ....it is seriously like just sticking wet clothes in the microwave. So we are rack drying. This is very European to me.....I have always had dryers.....SAJF and M just look at me and say ...."what this is normal." "You need an outside line!" ....um this is very interesting to me. Huh....maybe this would work if it didn't rain all the time here.

All of this translates to me.....My life is really different.

I have been speaking to sister and parents a lot more and I wish they could come and see my place and I could hang out with them. They ask questions about friends and other things and I realise that I am become more and more far away than I thought. Distance, I guess kills certain things and it is a shame. Never will this happen with my fam as they are great and we both work hard to make this not an option....and also I think only my family could put up with me calling early in morning (their time) excited about something that has happened in my day.

DD, I send you positive vibes filled with strength and peace. You really are great and will always work to stay in touch and connected to me and for that I am very grateful and hope you have a good Birthday month this August!


For now...Jaws is on the TV (my favorite movie) and I am having a BBQ tomorrow, I have just installed a Bamboo covering over our gate/wall so it looks cute and people can't look into our house and BBQ area as easy. (this required me walking to the home depot equivalent place here (Home Base) and walking back with this 7' x 13' rolled up bamboo....as I have my limits to what I can take on my bike ;)