I do realize I am a bit nuts sometimes.....
Sorry it's been so long. I've been concentrating on getting those photos up, so go ahead and take a couple minutes looking at them. It takes sooooo long to upload them and I'm way behind. It's also not as fun as other things, so it's not like I've spent all the time I should've on them. Alright, enough about that...me crazy!!
It's my day off....Paul went to an interview, yesterday and a sort of trial run today for both him and the school. It pays a lot more and it seems right now, a better place to work. I knitted and watched Gilmore Girls in the morning....heehee, and then just came back from shopping. now here's the crazy part. I walked about 3 or 4 miles to the grocery store instead of walking a couple blocks to a grocery store.
Over the years, I've lived a lot of places, with and without roommates, with and without car or bike, with money and with pennies, going through times of cooking every night or ordering out every other night....eating cereal the others....heehee I learned an important thing in those times.....the grocery store you live close to matters a lot. I have to confess, that's not an original thought, but it's so true.
If you've seen the photos blog, you've seen HAT Kobe. One of our roommates works there, so for weeks he's been boasting about the low cost of this Kansai Super. We shop at the Daiei, 'cause it's much closer--right in the city where we live, but I finally went. As I mentioned in the photo captions, HAT Kobe is a planned community. I hate to say it, but there's something very appealing. It's quite sickening that it's appealing. It's perfect and clean and convenient and new and cookie-cutter, but somehow since there're apartment buildings not identical houses, it's ok(?). The walk into town is so pleasent. You leave the busy metro area--Sannomiya--where we live, walk along this brick foot path through a graffiti-free tunnel, past a bustling Japanese style park (NO GRASS??!!!) for kids, past apartment building with gardens in front free to anyone to pick flowers and vegetables, and enter an equally busy, slightly, more residential area. I have recently heard rumors about the quality of the apartment buildings, which, there are plenty of, in HAT, as far as safety is concerned, but I don't believe it, yet. The name is even disturbing--Happy Active Town.
The grocery store isn't cheaper. It's not even very different....just as crowded. The walk, though, makes the difference. I can't even explain it.....I'm nuts.
It's my day off....Paul went to an interview, yesterday and a sort of trial run today for both him and the school. It pays a lot more and it seems right now, a better place to work. I knitted and watched Gilmore Girls in the morning....heehee, and then just came back from shopping. now here's the crazy part. I walked about 3 or 4 miles to the grocery store instead of walking a couple blocks to a grocery store.
Over the years, I've lived a lot of places, with and without roommates, with and without car or bike, with money and with pennies, going through times of cooking every night or ordering out every other night....eating cereal the others....heehee I learned an important thing in those times.....the grocery store you live close to matters a lot. I have to confess, that's not an original thought, but it's so true.
If you've seen the photos blog, you've seen HAT Kobe. One of our roommates works there, so for weeks he's been boasting about the low cost of this Kansai Super. We shop at the Daiei, 'cause it's much closer--right in the city where we live, but I finally went. As I mentioned in the photo captions, HAT Kobe is a planned community. I hate to say it, but there's something very appealing. It's quite sickening that it's appealing. It's perfect and clean and convenient and new and cookie-cutter, but somehow since there're apartment buildings not identical houses, it's ok(?). The walk into town is so pleasent. You leave the busy metro area--Sannomiya--where we live, walk along this brick foot path through a graffiti-free tunnel, past a bustling Japanese style park (NO GRASS??!!!) for kids, past apartment building with gardens in front free to anyone to pick flowers and vegetables, and enter an equally busy, slightly, more residential area. I have recently heard rumors about the quality of the apartment buildings, which, there are plenty of, in HAT, as far as safety is concerned, but I don't believe it, yet. The name is even disturbing--Happy Active Town.
The grocery store isn't cheaper. It's not even very different....just as crowded. The walk, though, makes the difference. I can't even explain it.....I'm nuts.
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