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wayfaringwordhack) wrote2023-01-05 08:35 am
wayfaringwordhack) wrote2023-01-05 08:35 am
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Starting to feel like home
I wish I had my little "'shroom sweet 'shroom" icon from LJ. Alas I don't have a lot of capacity for such over here on DW.
Anyhow, the start of the week/year has been a bit up and down here. Nothing major, only annoyances coupled with the usual moving stuff. Also, twice Ti'Loup has said he hates this house and has had a couple of meltdowns. But I woke up this morning and thought, "This already feels more like home than Moussa's apartment ever did."
We still have not unpacked everything,* and we are still waiting on our corner sofa,** which means our living spaces aren't set up the way we would like them, giving it all a temporary feel. Not a picture is on the walls,*** but still: feels homey.
I am waiting on the White Sales to get the kids bedding. When I asked about the dates at the store where I want to shop, the saleslady acted like I was out of my mind and such a sale did not exist. Only I know it did because I bought things there last year around this time and saved 30%. A Lebanese friend told me, "Maybe with all the import prices rising, etc. there won't be sales this year." I dunno. The Lebanese love to shop, and we have seen that the current crisis does not affect all levels of the population the same (this is not a store where you go if you are struggling. *I* want to buy the bedding there because SLEEP is important. I threw money at cheap sheets last year and quickly paid the price. This time it is about investment). Will wait and see until the end of the month.
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*The craft room needs unpacking and rearranging as does the hallway niche facing it where all the sporting equipment will go (surfboard, surf-skate and skateboard, swimming and spearfishing stuff...)
** Just five more days. I am hoping for timeliness and efficiency here.
*** I never hung anything up at the other place because it felt temporary from the get-go.
Anyhow, the start of the week/year has been a bit up and down here. Nothing major, only annoyances coupled with the usual moving stuff. Also, twice Ti'Loup has said he hates this house and has had a couple of meltdowns. But I woke up this morning and thought, "This already feels more like home than Moussa's apartment ever did."
We still have not unpacked everything,* and we are still waiting on our corner sofa,** which means our living spaces aren't set up the way we would like them, giving it all a temporary feel. Not a picture is on the walls,*** but still: feels homey.
I am waiting on the White Sales to get the kids bedding. When I asked about the dates at the store where I want to shop, the saleslady acted like I was out of my mind and such a sale did not exist. Only I know it did because I bought things there last year around this time and saved 30%. A Lebanese friend told me, "Maybe with all the import prices rising, etc. there won't be sales this year." I dunno. The Lebanese love to shop, and we have seen that the current crisis does not affect all levels of the population the same (this is not a store where you go if you are struggling. *I* want to buy the bedding there because SLEEP is important. I threw money at cheap sheets last year and quickly paid the price. This time it is about investment). Will wait and see until the end of the month.
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*The craft room needs unpacking and rearranging as does the hallway niche facing it where all the sporting equipment will go (surfboard, surf-skate and skateboard, swimming and spearfishing stuff...)
** Just five more days. I am hoping for timeliness and efficiency here.
*** I never hung anything up at the other place because it felt temporary from the get-go.
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I think it does him good, though, to articulate what he misses and to help him see equivalents here or things that are better without negating his feelings. Little by little, he will come around.
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