February 11, 2005
Februarium -- Part Two -- Day Two
Carrying on!
Day two is easier than day one. For me anyway. The thing that I love.
My condo.
For my entire life I've lived with my parents. First for 25 or so years in the house I grew up in, then for about 2 years with my mother in her house. And that was great, for the most part anyway. There was almost always someone around to talk to, the bills were all paid by someone else, the food was there, all I had to do was cook it...
However, there's something incredibly fantastic about living on your own. The fact that you can leave your dishes lying around for days and days, and that if you don't particularly want to pick up your clothes, it won't matter, because who is going to see them but you, and your cat?
I love my little condo. Yes, it is little, and yes, it sometimes feels cramped, but that's only when I've got it full of people. I always felt lost wandering around my parents houses when I was staying there alone. My condo is just the right size for me. And, even though I joke around about how it's brown, I love how it looks. The lady that lived here before me did a great job decorating, and aside from the bathroom (don't get me started on what THAT looked like), everything was pretty much perfect the way it was, as soon as I moved in.
I felt a little strange being here when I first moved in, sort of like I was playing house, and that someday I'd have to pack everything up and go home. But slowly it's dawned on me that this is home, and I'm so incredibly glad about that.
It's quiet, I don't hear my neighbours like some other people I know do. There's a police man that lives across the road, so I don't ever feel unsafe. The neighbours seem nice (what I know of them anyway), especially my next door neighbour who doesn't ever seem to get angry when my friends and relatives ring his doorbell instead of mine when they come to visit (this happens far more often than you'd think!).
We were lucky to find it when we did, and even luckier that we won the bidding war on it. It's pretty much perfect, and I love it.
