Feeling at home and misc. ramblings

It has not yet been a month and yet I do feel as if I am at home here already. That is a good feeling. Ever since I left Hollywood in September 2007 I have felt as if I were a transient. So to hang my little Bohemian beret ( well, one of them. I have 3 of them, and I do not know if the other two made the move or not ) and feel as if it is WHERE I hang it because it is home is a good feeling. 

I have been exploring my neighborhood a small bit. I have meandered over to the In And Out burger place a couple of times. And I have gone shopping. I walked to two local drug stores, one was near the fairgrounds where the Date Festival was going on. I am very tempted to go there Saturday to see the ostrich races ( yes, ostriches WITH jockeys, it is hilarious ) but I can't afford to rent a wheelchair or a scooter and my legs would not make the walking around without being in agony. I know this from last year. I had gone to the fair last year and even though I had not stayed that long or even walked around that much my legs/feet were just killing me by the time I got home. And my legs had not been hurting me when I had gone there. My legs have been bothering me ( well, my left leg anyway ) since I moved. Once  get signed up for an HMO I will hightail it to a doctor and see if  there is anything that can help this leg or if I am just out of luck ( because it is arthritis or something ). If worse comes to worse maybe I could get a scooter/ Though of course if there was something that would make the leg better so it does not hurt like the dickens that would be better. Oh to be able to dance again! 

I am still working at getting things in order here in my place. It takes time. And I am want to sit around and take it easy. I think that it is because I worked so hard at getting things in order and put away the first week or so of moving in. After that my body protested and said time out! So I am recharging my batteries to start gong through things again. And who knows when or who is gonna help me get the bulk of my possessions out of storage. That will be a major undertaking. I will be both glad and exasperated at getting things out of storage. Glad because I will then no longer have to pay a storage fee and exasperated as then I will need to sort through EVERYTHING and decide what to keep, sell, donate or toss. And dismayed when I go through everything and find certain things did not make it. But that is all for the future. 

I spent much of last night from 10 pm to 5 am in the morning looking at patterns. It was fun to look at some of the old patterns from the 60s and 70s and remember some of the outfits that my sister Libby and I wore. Our grandma Flo made most of our outfits and weren't we stylish? Though a few of my favorites were not there. I had a Mary Quant dress that my grandmother made me a couple of dresses out of and couldn't find that pattern. And there was one bellbottomed outfit that my sister Libby and I had. It was made in different colors. And it had a midriff top and hiphugger bellbottoms. And there were rows of ruffles on the bottom of the top, which was sleeveless, and on the bottom of the bells.  Great fun, those outfits! 

It is two in the afternoon so it is time to get up and get dressed and have my "usual" breakfast: oatmeal with raisins, milk, iced coffee with milk and sugar, orange juice ( from FLORIDA rather than some other country. though would PREFER to get California orange juice but where does one find it anymore? ). 

SAC

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