Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Whew!

Posted by Laura / 3 comments » / , family, friends

Even though I’m not a terribly social person, I feel, perhaps not rightfully so, that we’ve been a social … well, it’s not a whirlwind. That implies that it’s been very busy.

Last weekend, my friend Allison and her brother stayed with us over the weekend. Allison drove in on Thursday night and her brother came in on the early early train on Friday morning. He left on the earlier early train on Sunday morning, and then on Monday morning, Allison drove out to Connecticut to stay with a cousin or a friend or somebody else that isn’t us. It was fun having them here, though immediately after, Johnathan and I both got a bit sick due to the very little sleep we got. This Saturday, Johnathan’s friend Matt stopped in on his way to eastern Pennsylvania and crashed on our couch for the night. Then on Sunday night, Allison stopped through on her way back to Southern Indiana. It’s been a bit of a busy week. It doesn’t seem like much really, but I’m not good at that kind of thing. It was a lot of fun having them here, but immediately after, I feel like I have to recuperate. It’s an awful time to realize that in some ways, I’m exactly like my dad. I’m not sure when it happened that I became so bad at the social thing. When did I get so anxious in situations where I don’t know many people, and why?

At any rate, Johnathan and I have both been terribly, terribly negligent with posting, which is probably because we don’t do much. I’m finding that except for things inside our apartment, on a tight budget there isn’t much of anything to do. Everything interesting involves a fair drive, really. There’s nothing in our area to do right now except maybe see a movie. It’s… not something I’m used to, but at the same time, I’ve spent most of my time hanging out at home even when I lived in Portland, so maybe it’s just that I don’t know what to do. Johnathan seems to be much at a loss, too, though, so perhaps not. Right now, we’re playing The Sims 2 fairly heavily and working our way through Kingdom Hearts 2 together. It’s really fun to play it together, really. I’m really enjoying it.

There’s really nothing else going on. We’re still cooking together fairly frequently, keeping the apartment mostly in order, although having company changes that because I don’t want to spend my time picking everything up; it seems rude to spend so much time cleaning while they’re there, and then simultaneously telling them no, don’t worry about it, just relax.

There are times here that I really don’t like it. The apartment is wonderful and so is Johnathan, but Ohio is sometimes maddening. People are idiots when they drive, and it seems like everyone is in a perpetually grumpy mood. Saying hello to someone or even smiling and letting them go first into a doorway seems to be a novelty here. Saying, “Oh, gosh, I’m sorry!” when you accidentally bump into someone is also a novelty. Best I’ve gotten is a mumbled “‘scuse me” and even that was disappointing. I’m afraid that the longer I spend here, the more like that I’ll become. I don’t want to be sour and apathetic. I think most of my frustration with living here is that it’s different than what I’m used to, and I read somewhere that it’s very common to have high stress after a move. I can’t remember where I read that, though, so maybe it’s a load of crap.

At any rate, we’re here, we’re alive, and we’re doing just fine.

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