Today I hung out with my friend Jackie after work. She lives out near Green River Community College, which is in the opposite direction from my house if you're coming from Kentridge. I'm not quite sure why, but on the way home I decided to go the long way...the REALLY long way. What should have taken me twenty minutes tops took me an hour, but I loved it!
You see, I love adventures but I hardly ever get them. Not that driving out of the way is much of an adventure, but I went on the back roads and on roads I'd never been on. I nearly got lost a couple times and it was perfect! One thing I like to do is scope out future residencies, like roads I'd like to live on or areas I'd like to live in. Today I went down a few of those.
By no means am I living my dream life. Don't get me wrong, I love my life, but if I could live exactly the way I want to it would look nothing like how I do, starting with my lovely abode. I currently live in a two-bedroom apartment with a noisy downstairs neighbor, not enough parking, and a street light right outside my window. My dream house is a country-style two story house with a wrap-around porch on at least two acres of land. In the back is a huge patio or deck, large enough for entertaining, plus a large grass area and plenty of trees and ferns. There's a porch swing in the front and a large circular driveway speckled with huge trees but not so many that the sun doesn't come through. Inside, it's open and welcoming with exposed beams on the ceiling and a large loft on the second story. Large windows on the front and back let in plenty of sunlight. In the far corner of the back yard is a chicken house with ten laying chickens and a goat barn with two goats for milking. Our dog, some sort of lab, runs around our yard with no fear of him running away since we have the invisible fence. Our two cats, Max and Mika, sit in the big window watching the birds in the trees and the humming birds drink from the feeders. Last but not least, there's a long media room above the detached garage (which is really a studio for my DIY projects) with a pool table on one end, tiered seating facing one wall, and a projector with a Bose sound system for watching our favorite movies.
*sigh* I guess everyone has dreams that will never be fulfilled, right? I mean, seriously...two teacher's salaries? My dream will never come true. And if I really did have chickens and goats (which I really do want), I'd have to tend to them, which means I couldn't work full time. And I'd love that. Another part of my dream is getting to a point in my teaching career where eight hours a day five days a week really is all I have to put in rather than ten hours a day five days a week, plus weekends. But that's another dream that's truly just a fantasy. My goodness...how life ends up so differently than we expect! And I'm still young! Goodness gracious.
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