Lately, I miss Sacramento. Maybe it's more like I FINALLY miss Sacramento. Up until last Saturday I never really thought about missing it. I miss knowing where the deals are, what is happening down the street, freeway, a few exits away, knowing what backstreets to take to avoid traffic, knowing who my doctor is, knowing what dentist to see, knowing that I will see my friends this weekend, and knowing that my family is within 10-15 minutes away. Even though we might have not seen each other every week it was still nice to be near, the distance apart makes it feel different, you miss even more. All the comfortable aspects of a home town I am finally realizing I have not really "learned" in this part of CA. BUT: I WILL LEARN :D. And most importantly I am meeting some pretty neat people around here.
Slowly but surely, things will make sense again and I won't have to try too hard to not look so lost. Here's a story of how things can get around here:
This past weekend, I decided to drive down the street to explore a thrift town, of course hoping to come across something interesting and worth buying. Well, that is yet to happen. I am not a very good, or good at all at thrift store shopping.
Anyhow, this isn't a story about thrift store shopping- it's about purple ribbon and the Kings.
While I was out and about exploring in this town of mine, I noticed many purple ribbons tied to trees, poles, door handles, trash bins, bike racks, and pretty much anything else that is stationary and can have a ribbon tied on it. It was pretty- I wasn't sure what the occasion was but I noted it. Then when I was standing in a very long check out line (unfortunately, not at the thrift store) I browsed through my Facebook on the phone and saw that some Los Angeles friends were rooting for the Kings! Yeah go Kings! And also, I had some Sacramento friends rooting for the Kings in their status updates... I thought it all to be a bit strange, purple ribbons in Burbank and L.A. people celebrating for the Kings along with the Sacramento people. Wasn't really putting the purple ribbons directly with Sacramento Kings... completely, but it really made the team come to mind. I came home to my most trusted source in these type of dilemmas, Vlad, and I shared with him my strange observations. He chuckled and told me none of those were related. So I went forward to friendly Google.
This is what I found out:
-Purple Ribbons: Relay for Life Event (American Cancer Society)
-Los Angeles people are rooting for the Los Angeles Hockey team
[LA Kings... Wow that sounds strange to me]
-And Sacramento is talking about their Sacramento Basketball team
There... that's what all that was about. Even though I moved only 400 miles away, I deal with random nuances like these weekly. I can only imagine what people deal with when they move between states and even countries!
Goal for the week: not to get lost on the way to the grocery store (Tom Tom fails me every time I go to Jons on W. Glenoaks Blvd. ) I finally looked at a map and will take this into my own hands/logic- and maybe not get lost this week.
Slowly but surely, things will make sense again and I won't have to try too hard to not look so lost. Here's a story of how things can get around here:
This past weekend, I decided to drive down the street to explore a thrift town, of course hoping to come across something interesting and worth buying. Well, that is yet to happen. I am not a very good, or good at all at thrift store shopping.
Anyhow, this isn't a story about thrift store shopping- it's about purple ribbon and the Kings.
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This is what I found out:
-Purple Ribbons: Relay for Life Event (American Cancer Society)
-Los Angeles people are rooting for the Los Angeles Hockey team
[LA Kings... Wow that sounds strange to me]
-And Sacramento is talking about their Sacramento Basketball team
There... that's what all that was about. Even though I moved only 400 miles away, I deal with random nuances like these weekly. I can only imagine what people deal with when they move between states and even countries!
Goal for the week: not to get lost on the way to the grocery store (Tom Tom fails me every time I go to Jons on W. Glenoaks Blvd. ) I finally looked at a map and will take this into my own hands/logic- and maybe not get lost this week.
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