I'll Will Miss You...
- No snow. I hated getting up early to brush my car off. I hated driving in snow. I had a couple of close calls thanks to a car that lacks ABS breaks. I didn't like driving in fog, either.
- MY CAR! We're not taking it with us to Seattle. I'm really mourning this loss. To me a car represents freedom. And I own it fair and square. It is mine, and soon it won't be. I have to learn stick-shift in order to be able to drive in Seattle because J's car is manual. I hate riding the bus (I get terrible car sickness and the smell of buses makes me woozy) but I'm going to have to take it in to campus for work three days a week, so I'll have to get used to it.
- Free time. I won't have time to tinker or read when I'm struggling to keep up in school work. I did a good job of making the most of my free time in Miami. I read oodles and oodles. I also volunteered almost three hours every week. I'll be happy to get some time to watch my favorite shows when I'm not doing school work, work work, or sight seeing!
- Craft Night. I enjoyed having people to craft with. We didn't do it every week, but we did it fairly regularly and I liked feeling like a part of a family, even if it was for two hours on a Tuesday. Crafting, for me, is enhanced by chatting while my hands are working.
- Living 7 blocks from the library. In Miami I learned how to request books and I utilized the service to the fullest. It saved me a lot of money to borrow books. Reading copious amounts helped ease my loneliness here. In the last year and a half, I've kept myself so busy with reading and volunteering that I don't feel lonely anymore.
- Living in Coral Gables. It really is "City Beautiful." The trees are gorgeous and I felt at ease living under their green canopy. I don't know that I'll ever get to live in such a tree-filled neighborhood again. The buildings are gorgeous and I'll miss gawking at them too.
- Bougainvilleas. Always colorful, no matter the time of the year. Seeing as I don't plan on living in such a hot, humid place again, I will really miss them.
- My 2 bedroom apartment. We're downsizing and yet our fur-family grew. While we strove to be minimalists, we still acquired stuff. We're selling as much as possible, but sometimes I feel bogged down. Where will this junk go in our new place? This was also our first place as a married couple. We made it home and all of the furniture matched and was new (thanks to wedding money and the reasonably priced IKEA).
- Croquetas. It took me awhile to fall in love with them, but now I look forward to mornings when I have time to stop by Bustelo or even Publix for the $0.69 breakfast treats.
- LAN Pan Asian Cafe. J and I go here on the regular and we've taken several people to it. Yummy Asian Nachos. Yummier sushi platters. Great service. Reasonable portions for a reasonable price. It started to feel like "our place."
- FIU Friends/Family. The ladies in my office feel like my family away from MKE. I've celebrated holidays and birthdays with them. They've been there for me and laughed with me. We've disagreed and we've made up. They made me feel welcome in this hard city. I'll miss some of the students I work with, too. They were the closest to me, age-wise, so I always enjoyed chatting with a few of them. I'll also miss some of the teachers. Many of them did things to make us feel appreciated. Many of them made me laugh. I learned a lot during my two years in the real-world working.
Goodbye and Good Riddance to...
- Rude Peeps. This city is known for being really rude. I'm not going to miss all of those people that acted like butt-munches.
- Healthcare. J and I received some really horrible service regarding healthcare down here (both of us, multiple times each). My dogs get better care from our vet than we got from some doctors. I do have two good specialists I see, but it took me a long while to find one of them.
- Identity Theft. South Florida is notorious for it and between J and I we've had our Credit Card/Debit Card information stolen/compromised five times. So frustrating. I hate the bozos who do that kind of stuff.
- Dumb Drivers. Okay, we don't have the worst traffic in the country, but I think we have some of the cruddiest drivers. They pull fast and dangerous moves. They are always on their phones or having animated discussions with others in the car. I see a fender bender (or more than one) almost every day! ..and I only drive to work and back and while keeping errands to a minimum. The month I worked that terrible job in Fort Lauderdale frayed my nerves with the commute alone.
- The Heat (temperature, not the basketball team... but I could care less about them too.) Oh. My. Word. I am a sweaty individual. My dad and brothers have the gene too. But I'm a girl. I'm not supposed to be this disheveled looking! I avoided the outdoors so much that I'm really pale now. The lightest colored Too Faced BB Cream is called Snow Glow and it is too dark for my pasty skin. But I don't worry too much because it doesn't stay on me long since I'M SO DAMN SWEATY ALL THE TIME. Ugh.
- Mold/Mildew. It's humid and we live in an old apartment with cruddy A/Cs and no fan in our bathroom. A neat-freak like me finds this to be a nightmare. I know Seattle will have it's fair share of mold/mildew (everything is covered in moss there), but we're moving into a newer place that will have fans and less build up gunk.
- DUST. A/Cs seem to kick up a lot of dust. My work desk is dusty and my house is dustier. I now know that I cannot own dark furniture without going crazy. It shows every speck of dust and cat hair. We eventually shaved Tashi to cut down on her tufts of hair flying around and because she is hot too- she's sitting in front of the A/C as it is on full-blast as I type this. In our next place I am planning on lighter furniture. Hopefully there will be less dust.
- Lizards. They're fast and they make me nervous. But their not fast enough that I don't see their little corpses once in awhile. It totally skeeves me out when they get in the apartment. Give me spiders and snakes any day. Yuck. Enough said.
- Six months of summer. I could file this away with The Heat, but I miss the change of the seasons. Right, I know I said I don't miss snow. But I miss colorful Fall and pretty Spring.
- Lack of Comfort Food Restaurants. There will be too many of these in Seattle. I'm going to have to practice self-discipline.
- Lack of Quality Craft Supply Stores. But, I won't have time for this stuff in Seattle, so, oh well.
- Crummy Target Stores. I don't know how corporate Target doesn't shut these locations down and start again from scratch, but I certainly hope Target is better in Seattle.
- Crummy Shopping, in general. I have the damnedest time finding clothing that I like down here. Here's to hoping I won't struggle as much in Seattle. Also, shopping is the Miami past time, so no matter when you go you can count on the malls/stores being frustratingly full and you might have to pay for parking just to buy your junk.
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