But without a car, that's a challenge sometimes. See, we live in this little area of housing separate from the rest of base. By car it's a <10 minute drive, but it's a bit far to go walking. If we lived closer, I'd go to the store to pick up random groceries or to the library or to the crafts center. But all of those are out of reach. Here, I have a small shoppette with the basics, a coffee shop, sandwich shop, gym, and elementary school. That doesn't provide a lot of excuses to get out of the house during the day. Of course, I could drive Jeff to work and take the car, but without a compelling reason to take the car, it feels like a waste. On Thursday I do have a doctor's appointment, and I plan to take full advantage of having the car to do some running around on the main side of base. I'm sure I will get hopelessly lost in the process. I'm still adjusting to driving on the right side of the car and on the left side of the road, not to mention I'm navigationally challenged and can only safely get to the BX and back without getting lost. I'm going to beg my dear husband for directions and put up with his eye-rolling so I can get to the hospital and library safely ;)Anyways.Today, I felt the urge to get out of the house. And since I didn't need anything, I just went for a walk around the neighborhood. We live right off the main road, so I hadn't been back into the twists and turns to see all the housing. It's a pretty monotonous view, since all the towers are built the same and all the smaller townhome complexes are built the same. But it was sunny outside, so it was a nice little walk. Here's the main road coming into this little area of housing called "North side". You can see we've had some warmer weather, all the snow that gets sunshine is melting!
I kept showing pictures of a neighboring building to describe our tower apartment, so I finally got a picture of OUR tower. I kept meaning to, but would never remember when I was outside.
While I was walking through the parking lot to come back inside, I saw a hawk circling overhead. This happens quite frequently; I'm assuming because there's a forest behind the building. Since we're so high up on the 8th floor, I see a hawk circling outside of our window at least once a day. I always wish I had my camera magically ready to go whenever I see a hawk out my window. At least today when I was walking I did!
That was a decent sized post about relatively little... There's relatively little going on in my life right now. I'm gearing up for some things (job hunting, exploring, etc), but right this second, not much.
I have been reading, of course. I'm about three chapters from the end of The Boleyn Inheritance. I purchased The Other Boleyn Girl nearly a year ago, and I finally read it and loved it. I quickly downloaded the next book in the series (I didn't know it was from a series until I started searching on Amazon!) onto my Kindle and have been reading it nonstop. It's fluff with just enough of a touch of history to make it interesting. And the secrecy and manipulation is dark and twisted, which makes for a great read.
I can't remember who recommended Philippa Gregory to me, but I haven't been disappointed. She has some more recent books out as well. And yes, I've already told Jeff we have to watch the movie now. He had already seen it before I started reading The Other Boleyn Girl, so he kept threatening spoilers. I threatened him back by telling him I'd go google spoilers for the book he was reading, and he kept his mouth shut ;)
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