No Bra Sunday
Sep. 22nd, 2024 07:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI don't plan on going anywhere today. I got up at 5:30 and I didn't even swim. It's a lazy Sunday and I intended to stick to Lazy Sunday Rules. Well, almost. I am doing a load of laundry which pretty much flies in the face but at least I don't have to move it from washer to dryer.
I might go out to the elbow and puzzle a bit later this afternoon. We'll see.
I've now lived here eleven months. I think about that a lot. After living in one place, in one set of circumstances for more than 30 years, a move - to a completely different place in a completely different set of circumstances seems like it should be more consequential than it actually has been. Especially when you toss in the reality that this is the last place I will ever live more than likely. I do not regret the move. There are some things I would have done a little differently but nothing critical.
In many ways I got very lucky. I made some good decisions but the most valuable things about my current living are things I could not have foreseen and just fell into.
I think I had a fairly profound point to this but blimey, it got lost. Oh well.
I have trash to take to the trash room but because it goes down a shoot, loudly, they ask us to not use it between 9 and 9. By the time I brush my teeth and make my bed and put away my coffee mug, it will be 9. Then there will be knitting.
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I might go out to the elbow and puzzle a bit later this afternoon. We'll see.
I've now lived here eleven months. I think about that a lot. After living in one place, in one set of circumstances for more than 30 years, a move - to a completely different place in a completely different set of circumstances seems like it should be more consequential than it actually has been. Especially when you toss in the reality that this is the last place I will ever live more than likely. I do not regret the move. There are some things I would have done a little differently but nothing critical.
In many ways I got very lucky. I made some good decisions but the most valuable things about my current living are things I could not have foreseen and just fell into.
I think I had a fairly profound point to this but blimey, it got lost. Oh well.
I have trash to take to the trash room but because it goes down a shoot, loudly, they ask us to not use it between 9 and 9. By the time I brush my teeth and make my bed and put away my coffee mug, it will be 9. Then there will be knitting.
Shelf
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Date: 2024-09-22 05:54 pm (UTC)When my grandmother moved into a place like Timber Ridge (albeit not as nice, I'm sure!) - my aunt, who worked as a floater across a handful of such places, told her that it was going to be up to her how it went. When people first move in, all the other residents will make social overtures - and invite you to do things. And if you say no, they will pretty quickly back off and stop asking. So my aunt's recommendation was - even if you don't FEEL like doing the thing they are inviting you to - consider doing it anyway, at least to start - because once you get settled you don't have to say yes to everything, but if you've said yes in the past, you'll at least be invited :D
It seems like you've found a good balance of being sociable and maintaining your valued solitude!
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