We're here!
Actually, we've been here for almost a week now, but things have been just the teensiest bit hectic. Starting with the 13 hour drive from Louisiana to South Carolina, to the arrival in a home without electricity or gas resulting in yet another night in a La Quinta, to the depositing of over one hundred boxes that needed unpacking, the past six days have been exhausting.
But even with those setbacks, we truly love our house, and despite the endless loads of laundry and epic dish washing marathons the house is really starting the come together and look like a home. Most of our furniture is in its final resting place, all of the rooms are fully functional if not beautifully decorated, internet and television will be turned on tomorrow, the downstairs will be painted within the next weekish, and the dogs seem to have realized that this is home for now.
Colby left this morning for a month-long school about 8 hours away, so it's just me around these parts finishing the unpacking and potentially hanging some pictures once the walls are painted. When I first moved to Washington, I spent a lot of time sitting around the house by myself watching tv and feeling lonely. I'm going to try very hard not to let that happen here. Even if it's just to get out and drive around or go see a matinee, I want to make an effort to get out of the house at least a few times a week. Actually put on clothes and makeup and enter into society.
My New Year's resolution is to force myself to be less of a homebody when I'm not working and Colby isn't around. I have a small collection of friends here and I hope that eventually I'll find a support system that keeps me as busy and entertained as the friends I left behind in Washington.
But that starts tomorrow. Today I am reading a book, watching movies, and laying around in my pajamas all day, feeling just the tiniest bit sorry for myself. Tomorrow the plumbers, the painters, and the cable guy. The day after that, the world!
