I haven't spent a single day alone with my husband in about a month. I didn't realize this until a couple hours ago. But I am feeling, well, can we say frustrated? I mean, not to sound too creepy, but I'm starting to feel the way a Sim feels when their friends overstay their welcome, and the Sim just wants desperately to go to sleep, but they won't go to sleep if you have free will on, because they simply have to say goodbye to the guest before they retire.


I love my family. And every single day that they're either here or we're over there, it's been of my own free will. I love them. A lot. And I've missed them since I've been across the country at college. So I feel like I've had to soak them up as much as I possibly can before I get a real job. But I have to tell ya, I'm starting to miss my husband now because we've barely even talked since we've been back in California.


I guess being completely cut off from all friends and family for the last three years, he and I really relied on each other for companionship and friendship. We only had each other, so I guess I got used to the fact that most nights were like slumber parties, where we'd go to bed, but we didn't actually sleep. We'd just lay in the dark and talk for an hour before we actually allowed sleep to set in. But in California, most nights we're going to bed it's not really night anymore, it's actually morning, and we're barely awake enough to say "Goodnight."


Although, I guess you can't blame us for not wanting to sleep in our new apartment. Don't get me wrong, our apartment has been essentially perfect. I love the fact that when people are over now, they don't have to walk through our bedroom to use the bathroom. I love the fact that we have 250 square feet more here than we did in DC. I love that there are no roachs. No bedbugs. No cars honking rudely all hours of the day. I love that we have a dishwasher. That the laundry facility is card operated instead of coin operated (coin, blah, it should be called quarter operated). And we have so much more storage space here than we've ever had.


But the bedroom has been like a sauna.


California is hot in the summertime. And our apartment only has a single wall unit a/c in the living room, not central air. We're also at the top floor of our building. And we have a tree outside of our window, but it's not tall enough to provide us shade, but tall enough to provide the downstairs neighbors shade. So by 7 AM every day, our bedroom is hot enough to bake the Devil's cookies in.


But we bought our own a/c unit to put in the bedroom. We've only had it for a day, but so far it seems like it's working really well. I'm considering actually going to sleep at a decent hour just because I don't dread going in there anymore.



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