Saturday, July 11, 2009
I'm Back!
Goodness gracious, I can't believe it's been almost a month since I've written, or slept in a real bed for that matter. I moved into the apartment June 15th, surrounded by 28 boxes received from Oklahoma and even tho' there are precious memories in those boxes, there was no furniture. My rugs arrived a week later, and my oil painting, but boy do I wish I had those leather chairs.
I've been on the hunt for "stuff" mostly searching on Ramstein Yardsales.com, a virtual garage sale sort of like Craigs List, and things are beginning to take shape but I still sleep on a twin blow-up bed. I fell out of bed my first night here and landed hard on the cement/tile floor, giving myself a blackened eye and sore L. knee. I have since learned not to turn over in the middle of the night.
I perseverated on getting a grill for the balcony almost to the point of insanity, knowing I didn't have a place to eat, drink or sleep, but somehow a grill meant home and I was needing comfort. I succeeded! and celebrated with the most delicious club steak I have ever had in my life.
I don't like living in chaos and I dislike even more being without internet service for a month but today the boxes are empty and I'm wired! Many thoughts have transpired over the last month, and I even uttered the most dreaded phrase "I wonder if I made a mistake." And when my son's computer was stolen and he sounded so sad and disheartened, I was terribly homesick for him. I wanted to be close and comfort him, I wanted to be close and be comforted. Austen hasn't recovered his computer but he recovered emotionally and he did it without his mom. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I still need a hug.
Monday is my birthday. I'm having a pre-birthday celebration with my friend Cindy tonight, going to the musical HAIR in KaiserSlautern. By tomorrow I may be singing Age of Aquarius in german...or not. But I'm thinking it will be a good night.
Ciao for now good friends.
I've been on the hunt for "stuff" mostly searching on Ramstein Yardsales.com, a virtual garage sale sort of like Craigs List, and things are beginning to take shape but I still sleep on a twin blow-up bed. I fell out of bed my first night here and landed hard on the cement/tile floor, giving myself a blackened eye and sore L. knee. I have since learned not to turn over in the middle of the night.
I perseverated on getting a grill for the balcony almost to the point of insanity, knowing I didn't have a place to eat, drink or sleep, but somehow a grill meant home and I was needing comfort. I succeeded! and celebrated with the most delicious club steak I have ever had in my life.
I don't like living in chaos and I dislike even more being without internet service for a month but today the boxes are empty and I'm wired! Many thoughts have transpired over the last month, and I even uttered the most dreaded phrase "I wonder if I made a mistake." And when my son's computer was stolen and he sounded so sad and disheartened, I was terribly homesick for him. I wanted to be close and comfort him, I wanted to be close and be comforted. Austen hasn't recovered his computer but he recovered emotionally and he did it without his mom. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I still need a hug.
Monday is my birthday. I'm having a pre-birthday celebration with my friend Cindy tonight, going to the musical HAIR in KaiserSlautern. By tomorrow I may be singing Age of Aquarius in german...or not. But I'm thinking it will be a good night.
Ciao for now good friends.
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