settling in...

week three of vermont life is in full swing (has it really only been three weeks?).  i've done more than one grocery shopping trip, and we went out for chinese food.  surprisingly enough the combination of these two [seemingly insignificant] things has started to let it seep into my mind that this isn't an escapist vacation, but rather, we actually live here.  i'm happy to say that the realization is a rather lovely one.

therein i'm also starting to get used to the new realities of life.  groceries is a big adjustment, actually -- where in brooklyn i would just stop on my way home from work and pick up a few things here and there, here it [actually, literally] takes me forty minutes to get to a big grocery store.  there's a smaller one right in town (so, a fifteen minute commute) but as is with smaller grocery stores, i find the selection [logically] smaller and the prices a bit higher than the bigger stores like hannaford or price chopper.  so!  grocery shopping is a commitment, is what i'm getting at...

i've taken to making really detailed shopping lists, and i flirted with the coupon section of a newspaper last saturday at a coffee shop.  i haven't quite taken out the scissors and started clipping yet, but i could see myself being featured on extreme couponing soon enough.

going out for chinese food is a similarly lengthy commute commitment, but that, my friends, is a blessing in disguise.

all in all we're basically just getting into a groove, here.  we've both got our home offices set up -- mine is on the first floor of the house and garret's is on the third floor, so most of the time murgy hangs in the middle in the living room confused about whose desk to curl up next to.  i think in time, i'll win - i put one of her favorite couches in my office... prime curling up space.  you're welcome, murgs!

it's going to rain every day for the next seven days here, so i'll probably be posting again soon enough.

rain for the next seven days in wilmington, vt!