Pulled in two directions
Oct. 1st, 2013 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittySeeing my friend from out-of-state was really good for me. He keeps encouraging me to move to Seattle/Portland with him (he co-habitates between the two cities). I told him that the number one thing really keeping me here are my nephews. I feel bad enough that I don't spend more time with them. I can't imagine how I would feel living in another state away from them. Of course, if I lived in Portland, I'd be a stone's throw from my own uncle and aunt and 2 younger cousins that I haven't seen since we moved my grandparents out of their home and into an Alzheimer's center, which was still a couple years before they both passed away.
My friend's also still very encouraging of me applying for grad school. He suggested I apply to Washington State, hint, hint. Back when we were at university together and he was still taking a lot more trips overseas, he told me I didn't have a choice - if he moved to Iceland/The Netherlands/Norway/etc he would be dragging me with him and I would be learning a new language.
Speaking of the nephews, I finally got them to watch The Princess Bride a few weeks back. Little Bit kept fighting against it saying, "That's a GIRL movie," and I had to tell him that it's not. Luckily, Eldest was for it, and it didn't take long at all for Little Bit to accept that this was one damn good BOY movie after all. ::eyeroll:: Watching them socialize into The Sexes is so weird to me, but maybe it's because I've always been more of a tomboy and didn't really take to being socialized myself.
Eldest told me this weekend that Papa (my dad) found a house for sale right across the street from their school and only a block away from one of his friends from class - hint, hint, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Yep. I said before I'm pretty sure he'd love to come live with me if given the chance, and now he's out house shopping for me. Too bad I can't explain to him the economics of mortgages.
So, see? The idea of leaving here - I really have no idea how I could fathom it, yet running away and making a new start seems so appealing right now. I guess I'm bored.
My friend's also still very encouraging of me applying for grad school. He suggested I apply to Washington State, hint, hint. Back when we were at university together and he was still taking a lot more trips overseas, he told me I didn't have a choice - if he moved to Iceland/The Netherlands/Norway/etc he would be dragging me with him and I would be learning a new language.
Speaking of the nephews, I finally got them to watch The Princess Bride a few weeks back. Little Bit kept fighting against it saying, "That's a GIRL movie," and I had to tell him that it's not. Luckily, Eldest was for it, and it didn't take long at all for Little Bit to accept that this was one damn good BOY movie after all. ::eyeroll:: Watching them socialize into The Sexes is so weird to me, but maybe it's because I've always been more of a tomboy and didn't really take to being socialized myself.
Eldest told me this weekend that Papa (my dad) found a house for sale right across the street from their school and only a block away from one of his friends from class - hint, hint, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Yep. I said before I'm pretty sure he'd love to come live with me if given the chance, and now he's out house shopping for me. Too bad I can't explain to him the economics of mortgages.
So, see? The idea of leaving here - I really have no idea how I could fathom it, yet running away and making a new start seems so appealing right now. I guess I'm bored.
