Lorena and I enjoy our lives as apartment dwellers. We started our marriage in a small one-bedroom apartment in Boynton Beach, Florida and enjoyed that, too. We keep thinking we will move into a house soon, but we are not sure when things will stabilize with Grandpa Milo (Alzheimer’s) and Grandma Sarah. So, we continue to enjoy the ability to walk across the parking lot to Fred Meyer or (more often) across the street to Albertsons. We actually drove very little until this week when the Oregon drizzle finally hit. We are a one car family, so Lorena drove me to work in the morning. I walked a mile and a half each morning to have lunch with her at Wendy’s (cup of chili) or Subway (6″ turkey sandwich), then two miles home at night.
Lorena takes two classes at the community college so she has either homework or class every night. I work on three projects (GaugeCam and two others) beside my day job, so I have too much stuff to do, too. The reality, though, is that we are just working and waiting. Life is waiting, but usually the waiting, in our case, has been a function of our desire to accomplish something and the waiting involved work. Now though, the waiting does not have much to do with us, but the folks. We are getting stuff done, but the length of the stay in our current situation has little to do with anything over which we have much control. And still, it is nice. Since there is nothing really we can do other than be where we are and do what we are doing, we have less about which to worry than in previous circumstances. We plan to enjoy it while it lasts.
Betty Blonde #413 – 02/15/2010
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