Wishing things could be like they were before.
So, lately I've been reminiscing yesterday and today about how this whole year has gone and where I've been living, this year. I think about how I lived at these West Grove Apartments on Kensington with my boyfriend. I think about how I'd go for runs through the complex and around by where I was living when I was living there, at the time, how I'd walk through there just to take garbage out, how I'd ride bikes in the area. And honestly, I just wish we could have lived there longer than 6 months. But the sad fact is with me being unable to have a job that'll fit me because I can't work, and my boyfriend being out of work due to health issues, we weren't able to afford to live there anymore. And it sucks. That was the perfect place to live when we were living there. It was beautiful. We had a nice sized kitchen, a dishwasher, a microwave, 2 bed rooms, 2 bathrooms, a master bedroom, a nice sized walk in closet for all our clothes as well as it being enough room to store all my other stuff. And more closest to store even more of our stuff. We also had a balcony, we had lights on our balcony, we had outlets on our porch outside in case we wanted to plug in any lights on our balcony, we also had a view over looking the pond. And I was very happy about living there. I think about how happy I was to just take all my stuff and move it out of Hickory Hill Flats, and just move it over there, when it was a block away. One thing I enjoyed doing this spring was just riding bikes in the residential area where I was living in Waukesha, at the time. How I was moving my stuff, and when I moved my bike over to West Grove, I just had Jason drive me to Hickory Hill Flats, and I just let myself in, grabbed my bike brought it outside, locked that door behind me, and rode it over to West Grove and brought it upstairs into our unit.
When we did first move out here this fall, Jason did say that we'll come back, next year. I hope so. So far the only thing that's made living out here more tolerable is our new cat that we adopted from the animal shelter. And there's been more talk about us moving into a low income housing apartment in Waukesha again, since we're now both on Social Security. So at least Jason maybe right about one thing, about us moving back into Waukesha, next year. Then I can say, that most of last year, I lived in Waukesha, and now I'm back in Waukesha again, this year. Plus, when I think about how we keep having to get things we want and need in the Waukesha county, I think it's just a sign that that's where we need to be. Hopefully we'll come back next year. I guess I can say, I already survived 3 months of living out here in Palmyra, and we still have 8 months to go. If I were to compare our beautiful apartment we were living in for 6 months to this place, I can say, at least the living room here is a lot bigger than the living room was in our place at West Grove. And with everything set up like it was at our other place, where were we supposed to put up a Christmas tree for the holiday seasons? At least at this place, there's a perfect place to put a Christmas tree up. We still have 2 bedrooms in our place in Palmyra, just like we did at West Grove. But the bedrooms at our old place didn't already have lights in the bedrooms, and we had to provide our own lights for them. But here, the bedrooms already have lights in the ceilings. I know we don't have to worry about what we're going to do for at least another 8 months. But I know we'll either try to get a low income apartment in Waukesha or we might end up renewing the lease for this place and staying another year. But I really hope we can move back into Waukesha, for next year. Until then, I know I need to just hang in there. I need to look forward to it being Christmas time, again. I know that if we ever have to go into Mukwonago or Waukesha for anything, we have to drive through Eagle and North Prarie just to get there for a while. But hopefully, we'll only have to do that for another 8 months. And hopefully after that, we'll never have to go through Eagle again, just to get to home and go out somewhere from home in Waukesha County. All I know is after having a sad year last year, and then this year starting out good from at least March until June, before everything started taking a nose dive this summer, I can finally have a better year in 2018 with better things coming our way.
RIP Winkie
All I know is, maybe if we do end up moving to a new place next year and it is a low income apartment in Waukesha, maybe it'll be almost as nice as the one we had at West Grove. It might not be as nice as what we had at West Grove, but maybe at least it'll still be nicer than where we are, now.
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