Small Adjustments

The adjustments are small, the closet light being on the outside of the closet instead of inside, having to lock the front door, and cars, going up and down stairs several times when bringing home groceries, (now he understands why I wanted a 1^st floor apartment) and the list goes on.  The apartments were not built for a 5’2” person.  I will have very strong calf muscles after a year of stretching on my tippy toes each time to reach for the plates and cups.  Unpacking was almost done in the first day, but there have already been changes.  One does not realize how much some things are really used, example, the small colander.  It had been placed on the top shelf over the stove, it is now in the pantry as the step stool had to be used to get it down.  Going from 10 kitchen cabinets to 5 has been a feat.  There was a whole lot of purging before we left, but evidently not enough.  My morning coffee view is definitely different and much nosier.  I do have pretty trees to look at, and plenty of birds singing, but also get to watch others leave for their work, and listen to airplane after airplane leave.  Jim commented that he did not realize how noisy the planes would be, and I replied I choose to believe it is the sound of the ocean splashing against rocks.  He gives me that look of “I really don’t know what planet you came from.”  We have our coping mechanisms!