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This will be yet another fast post; I visited three people yesterday that I'd been corresponding with via the Portland craigslist and settled on the first one after it all. I spent an hour or so at Mt. Tabor park [pictures coming forthwith], writing on my Wraeththu fic since I've not really been able to work on it outside of a few snatched moments, but I'm enjoying a wonderful few days with my grade school friend and her children. I love that I can provide something so simply exotic as a computer on Zoe's desk with headphones so she can play with pbs.kids, and just being a part of a family out here. I spent quite a while last night in the kitchen with Cally, going through our grade school friends, wondering who'd married who, who had divorced whom, and all of that. We were also comrades in an accelerated program for bright grade schoolers together, and we were trying to figure out which particular Billy Joel song it was that we made a video of, and whether or not said video might be archived somewhere.
Our 20th high school reunion is at the end of July, and while I moved away after 5th grade, many of the people I knew are still there, and I'm going to go. To add a bit of spice, or something.
Today we're headed to the beach, and I'm thrumming with a rightness of all of this. Some elements are still quite scary, but being in the household of someone I've known since 3rd grade is really quite tremendous. Geography does imprint, and it did on me. That, and I'm now at an age that I've been a step-parent, and I really do resonate with pre-adolescents, and I'm just so grateful. I've lived all over the U.S., and this is my choice, to be back out in the northwest. I'd been hoping/planning for this for quite some time, and while the cost has been, well, what it is, I'll take it.
Our 20th high school reunion is at the end of July, and while I moved away after 5th grade, many of the people I knew are still there, and I'm going to go. To add a bit of spice, or something.
Today we're headed to the beach, and I'm thrumming with a rightness of all of this. Some elements are still quite scary, but being in the household of someone I've known since 3rd grade is really quite tremendous. Geography does imprint, and it did on me. That, and I'm now at an age that I've been a step-parent, and I really do resonate with pre-adolescents, and I'm just so grateful. I've lived all over the U.S., and this is my choice, to be back out in the northwest. I'd been hoping/planning for this for quite some time, and while the cost has been, well, what it is, I'll take it.
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Date: 2008-07-02 10:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-02 10:37 pm (UTC)Congrats on your move, new home, etc!
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Date: 2008-07-03 12:33 am (UTC)wow...
good going!!!
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Date: 2008-07-03 08:57 am (UTC)It really is something, people you've known since elementary school, isn't it? Truly.
Glad that you settled on a place so quickly and are feeling at home, and at peace with your surroundings.
woohoo! Very much looking forward to hearing about the new place once you are all settled in!
(and have got new-to-you furniture from CL! :P)
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Date: 2008-07-03 01:09 pm (UTC)It's quite reassuring to have someone there who you already know, isn't it? I wish you lots of more fun and a wonderful day at the beach, and that you have a nice, cosy home for youself very soon, too.
(((thousand sparkling hugs!!!)))
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Date: 2008-07-03 01:19 pm (UTC)I'm also glad you've had time to work on your Wraeththu fic!
Good luck getting settled in and
(((many hugs)))
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Date: 2008-07-04 03:20 am (UTC)I can feel the rightness of your situation as far away as here, in Nashville. This feels right to me. I hope it does to you as well. I feel a sense of joy, of belonging, a sense that you may have reached your home. This may be crazy talk, and that is not being your experience at all right now. But I don't know, I don't think I'm wrong.
Which roommate are you going with, the in her 50's one, or the the four and twenty in her twenties? Or is it someone I don't even recall?
On a fandom note. I've got a new fandom I'm going to be writing for. It's so new I think I'll be a fandom of one. It may not be you cup of tea, the main characters remind me of a mixture of Harry, Draco, Ron, and Cedric all mixed up in bizare compbinations. It's Kingmaker/Kingbreaker series by Karen S. Miller. The first book is The Innocent Mage. I even requested to do a 10_themes table on it.
Can't believe I'm rambling like this. I miss our talks, I miss you. Hope you are happy.
A place to live, and rediscovering my roots
Date: 2008-07-08 01:04 pm (UTC)So glad you're having a good time with your travels.
* * * BIG HUGS * * *
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Date: 2008-07-08 01:34 pm (UTC)I am a slasher and I live in Portland! Been up here for about 5 years now - I'm a transplant from Texas and I just love the area! Anyway, not sure what else to say... lol Like I said,
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Date: 2008-07-08 01:36 pm (UTC)I am a slasher and I live in Portland! Been up here for about 5 years now - I'm a transplant from Texas and I just love the area! Anyway, not sure what else to say... lol Like I said, verdenia pointed me your way because you recently moved here. Drop me a comment if you'd like!
ETA: I thoroughly screwed up the link in the previous comment - sorry!
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Date: 2008-07-08 09:20 pm (UTC)No, the link is locked, but I'm thrilled to find another slasher in this neck of the woods. Another southern transplat to Portland!! I'll definitely send you an email- or shoot one to me: thevina33 at gmail.com. I'll look at your LJ in the meantime.