Should I move...AGAIN?!😂
I am an old lady (72) slowly but surely recovering my health after a bad siege of illness 2 years ago. During this last very difficult 2 years I have had to move 3 times; each time was thoroughly exhausting although my health continues to improve. My latest attempt at health improvement is starting a new healthier way of life with better food and more exercise. I love swimming, and a daily hour in the pool last summer really helped get me stronger, happier and slimmer. However, I am still obese and need to lose 80 more lbs. (I am on a managed diet, and eat a low calorie low glycemic index diet with vegetables from my garden).
Here's the deal: I live in a rented room in a private home. They let me plant a small garden in back. The pool is big and beautiful and right outside my door...but...
It is not a heated, year round pool! I can only use it about 5 months a year. My weight loss plateaued and stopped when I stopped swimming back in October. Now I'm able to enjoy the pool again. Yay!
I get along with the other 5 people in the house (all older guys). I have no problems living here. The neighborhood is upper class; it's lovely but I sometimes feel a bit out of place as a retired school teacher. It's quiet, which is nice, but frankly sometimes it's almost too quiet. And although I do get along fine with my 4 roommates and the manager, it's clear no one's really open to friendship here; we're all a bunch of quiet old folks, a bit introverted, stuck in our ruts.
Last night I prayed about it, asking if I should try to find something else for my living situation. I would like a house with a heated pool, a friendly young family, even a rambunctious little kid who'd wake me up from a nap now and then. Maybe a place to garden. Don't need fancy or upper class, just a room, year round pool, and some livelier younger people.
This morning, as I woke up, I remembered the saying, "If you've prayed about it, God's working on it." And I had a feeling...
At the market, the young woman who carried out my groceries was very friendly and mentioned that she and her husband and their 3 year old son and their new baby were living with her mother-in-law...[i]who wants to rent out a room![/i] The house has a heated pool. It's in a middle class neighborhood. She seems very open and friendly; might be a nice little family. I'm checking it out.
The thing is, I'd have to be crazy (or maybe crazier than usual) to move for the 4th time in 2 years...right?
I've downsized each time I've moved so it won't be an ordeal like moving out of my apartment 2 years ago where I'd lived for 28 years. And my last move was three days ago, across the hall in my house into another room where I've been unpacking for the last few days.
Should I start packing again?
Here's the deal: I live in a rented room in a private home. They let me plant a small garden in back. The pool is big and beautiful and right outside my door...but...
It is not a heated, year round pool! I can only use it about 5 months a year. My weight loss plateaued and stopped when I stopped swimming back in October. Now I'm able to enjoy the pool again. Yay!
I get along with the other 5 people in the house (all older guys). I have no problems living here. The neighborhood is upper class; it's lovely but I sometimes feel a bit out of place as a retired school teacher. It's quiet, which is nice, but frankly sometimes it's almost too quiet. And although I do get along fine with my 4 roommates and the manager, it's clear no one's really open to friendship here; we're all a bunch of quiet old folks, a bit introverted, stuck in our ruts.
Last night I prayed about it, asking if I should try to find something else for my living situation. I would like a house with a heated pool, a friendly young family, even a rambunctious little kid who'd wake me up from a nap now and then. Maybe a place to garden. Don't need fancy or upper class, just a room, year round pool, and some livelier younger people.
This morning, as I woke up, I remembered the saying, "If you've prayed about it, God's working on it." And I had a feeling...
At the market, the young woman who carried out my groceries was very friendly and mentioned that she and her husband and their 3 year old son and their new baby were living with her mother-in-law...[i]who wants to rent out a room![/i] The house has a heated pool. It's in a middle class neighborhood. She seems very open and friendly; might be a nice little family. I'm checking it out.
The thing is, I'd have to be crazy (or maybe crazier than usual) to move for the 4th time in 2 years...right?
I've downsized each time I've moved so it won't be an ordeal like moving out of my apartment 2 years ago where I'd lived for 28 years. And my last move was three days ago, across the hall in my house into another room where I've been unpacking for the last few days.
Should I start packing again?
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