how yoooou doin?

I moved last week.

We officially live on the coast.

I have to admit it's a bit of an adjustment. everything moves a bit slower here.

There's also the diversity thing...but eh...

i've gotten used to that at this point. 

We're still moving everything. I got rid of most of our furniture...long story...and off the two dressers than had survived the purge - one didn't make it down the stairs of the apartment...

So its mainly boxes... and most of those boxes are in the garage because it was raiing during moving day and after i christened the stairs

I decided to just handle them later. 

It was actually pretty funny in retrospect. I was running down the stairs and looked across the street. Made eye contact with someone crossing the road and 

I just kind of stayed there for a minute. like maybe they won't notice...or they'll be gone by the time I get up. lol

The new place is fantastic. It's about twice as large as out little apartment in the city. We're about 20 minutes from the beach. Right off of the high way...but I don't really consider it a highway if it has a stop light...

there have been two major crimes since i moved here. The jewelry store was robbed over the weekend and someone got held up on the highway. at 9pm...

the story goes that someone was driving home and realized that there was someone tailing them. so they pulled over to the side of the road. at which point the other car did as well and next thing you know there's a gum and knife out at them and they're demanding their phone and wallet.

now maybe i'm not used to small town living

and perhaps i've become a bit jaded and urban

but let someone tail me on a road and see if i'm going to pull over and STOP 

unless you are a police officer flashing your lights

and even then it better not be on a dark country road - because there are too many stories of brown people not making it back to the highway after that

but then they sat their long enough for the other people to not only stop but to exit their vehicle.

So...i guess the city is intruding on this little rural village

i probably should be more worried...but 9pm car jacking...they weren't committed to that crime. 

psh the sun has barely set at 9pm

I called Rosie and laughed about this one...we couldn't relate to the poor people who didn't realize what they got into.

disclaimer - its not ok for anyone to be robbed. 

but that being said...don't put yourself in a position where something could happen. like did you think the car that was trying to run you off the road wanted to stop and chat about speed limits?

it's like when someone is hollering at you from their car - do they expect you to be like 

i'm probably going to get to the point where I'm as shocked as the locals are about things like this. 

i'll give myself a few months to adjust

because laughing is obviously the wrong reaction 

but all in all the move has been a good one. New school. No commute. More time to just sit and be...

I'm happy. 

                                          like actually happy....

                                                                                  and that's nice for once.