january recap

so much for my goal to blog more...

this month has been strange. adjusting to colorado was harder than i expected it to be... i am DEFINITELY not a roommate person. i miss my own space, i miss being able to walk around in my underwear if i want to, i miss the kitchen being MY kitchen. most of my stuff is in boxes in the storage room, and the rest of it is in my bedroom. the house is not the one i would have chosen for myself... the house itself is okay, newly redone inside with actually a lot more space than you would think from out side. but the neighborhood (if you can call it that) is significantly less than ideal. there is a soup kitchen about half a block in one direction, and a half-way house about half a block in the other. there are (for lack of a better term) "bums" walking up and down the street at all hours, which is disturbing on multiple levels. plus we're right next to two sets of train tracks, just a few feet from the house, and a block from the interstate and a power plant.

i am not a snob. i realize that i do not have the money to live in my dream house. however, i would rather sacrifice one or two bedrooms and the 2nd living room and live in a safer area. it's strange though because it's like this weird little pocket. less than a mile in any direction and you're in a nice area again, and less than 5 miles away is broadmoor. i'm trying to look past it and appreciate the greater area. i'm really looking forward to spring and summer when i can explore outside more. i discovered that seven falls is just up the road. it's closed for the season now, but even the drive up to it is pretty, and there are a bunch of walking/hiking trails around there too that i can take coco on.

the roommate issues seem to be better the last few days actually, which makes me wonder if one of them heard my rants despite my best attempts to keep it quiet. oops.

working from home is nice, except it's still the same job, and it still sucks. plus now i'm going a little stir crazy being in the house all day every day. but i guess the grass is always greener... and i'd rather be able to complain about being home too much than not enough. plus we're saving so much money on gas. we spent $11 in january on gas (aside from what we spent on the move, obviously). we used to spend about $150 or more. rent is turning out to be about the same, actually, although we are splitting groceries and utilities, so we are saving a little. i know that little bit will add up. plus we're working more (because we can't call in sick, really), and there's overtime available pretty much all the time, so we'll be making more too.

i don't regret moving. not at all. but i didn't think it would take me quite so long to adjust. but it's okay. i'm just telling myself that we need to get through at least 1 year of living with them, and then we can move out on our own again. they'll have a baby by then so they'll probably want their own space anyway.

... yeah, she's pregnant. it was only a short 7 months ago that we were in ruidoso with shannon and she had a miscarriage. with twins. and now he's with allyson, and she's pregnant, due in september. so that's great.