![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thrihyrneThis 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.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
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!
(no subject)
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.