I find myself writing notes a lot, you know on my phone. Just my thoughts, or things that made me mad, or things I found funny. I had a family blog but it didn't really seem the place for many of those things, it was supposed to just be the regular bragging about my kids and saying how great we are. But my kids are getting older and now that some are teens they don't want me to brag about them so much on the blog (so I just do it on Facebook). So this is a spot for me, for my musings, complaints, random thoughts.
And here is one. I live somewhere that can be in the 100's in the summer and can be 11-20 degrees during the day in the winter. I find this just wrong. I'm melting now but a few months ago we couldn't get rid of the snow and were freezing our tails off.
Of course I could "just move" as people love to suggest when people complain about the weather, but that isn't so easy when you have 5 (with #6 on the way) kids. We have to be responsible and all that adult stuff. You knows mouths to feed. So we would need a job in "another place".
Where would I live if I could, you ask? Well, first choice would be Southern California. We are huge Disney fans at our house. If I could go to Disneyland whenever the Disney mood struck me I would be in heaven. I understand that not everyone gets this "Disney mood" that strikes me but its a real thing. Also the beach, I would love to feel the sand between my toes on a regular basis. It may get warm in the summer a bit however I could deal with that for the summer if I didn't have the extreme winter to contend with as well.
Another choice, Seattle. I love it there. I love the rain (and yes, I've had the "you won't love rain once you live there" lecture. This may or may not be true but don't burst my love bubble.) Let me clarify, I don't hate the cold, I hate the snow. It's fun for a day, then I'm done. You can have it. My dream would be to live on Whidbey island, that place is beautiful and I seriously fell in love with it when we visited.
San Francisco is about perfect in my mind. The weather stays pretty close to perfect (for me) all year long. The city is fantastic, and it's close to my nerdy husbands dream job. (I say nerdy husband in only the most positive way. He is a nerd, he prefers big fat nerd, and I love it.)
So his dream job, besides driving the train at Disneyland, is to work in the IT department at Pixar or Disney. This brings his love and knowledge of computers, networking etc, and his love of animation and 3D graphics. He's just a nerd, that's all there is to it. :)
Oregon is a possibility to me, but I haven't really spent much time there, someday I'll take a trip there so I can decide if I love it.
There are other possibilities but the point is I may be able to deal with either a really cold winter OR a really hot summer but I don't want both. I love diversity and variety but not in my weather. Spring and fall, if that's all I had I would be more than happy.
So this is my completely mindless musing for today. I don't if anyone will ever read my ramblings but this is just for me to be able to write, and maybe stop taking up so much space on my phone.
