Maybe it's just my mood today, but I'm thinking that we shouldn't bother to try to put down any roots in this particular rental home... while it was nice to get out of the apartment building, we're not a good fit in this immediate neighbourhood - there are a lot of young families and younger single men, a lot of Spanish-speaking immigrants, and a lot of dark-skinned children running around. Not that I've got anything at all against any of the above, but we have nothing in common with them. Aside from the initial 'hello' we haven't said word one to any of our neighbours in a month... we never even SEE them except when they're pulling out their driveways on their way to work. And while I like the church, it seems to be mostly older retired people and I don't think I've seen anyone in our age group at a service... the only time I get to talk to anyone is when we go to bible study on Wednesday night, or when I go to the grocery store and the cashier says hi, how're you doing? - the rest of the week it's just me and the cats and these four walls. Living in an apartment building with so many immediate neighbours annoyed the crap out of me because we had no privacy - but at least when I went outside to take the trash out or to do the laundry I usually saw somebody who said good morning. Here I might as well be invisible... welcome to suburbia.
I'm also disappointed that we're out of money and there's so much still to do here... I don't think I'm ever going to get my garden - we can't afford to buy plants, let alone all the basic gardening supplies we'd need to make it happen. I hung a windchime by the front door, but that's the only visible-from-the-front sign I've been able to muster up that we actually live here (I love my enclosed porch with my table and chairs and a cute plant on it, but you can't see it from outside the house...) tomorrow is the church yard sale - if I'm lucky maybe I can get some bargains there to help build my nest...
I guess I'll feel more at home here as the time passes... but I'm still thinking that this is just going to be a temporary stop, not our final destination. But hey, the last apartment was 'temporary' and we lived there for nine years! Maybe I'm entirely wrong about this place... at least it's a family neighbourhood so it's low crime.
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