Small Town Kid

I went to Dallas this weekend...and I loved it. I love my friends. I was so so happy to see them. But, as it turns out, I am not a big city girl.

There are definitely some disadvantages to living away from civilization. Examples:

• If I want ice cream or chocolate late at night I'm going to have to drive 15 miles to find it. Unless I want to purchase some from the 'Green Store'. Everything in the green store tastes like cigarette smoke. Everything. It's also twice as expensive as usual. But sometimes, it's worth it.
• I can't just go shopping, forget something, and run back to the store. You didn't get toilet paper?? Too bad for you. You don't have enough gas to drive back to town this week.
• I saw an armadillo on my front porch. No, not saw. I encountered. We had a staring contest. Please don't ask who won. It's a sore subject.
• There was a scorpion on my bed on time...and one in my bathtub...and one on my bedroom floor.
• My tap water tastes weird.
• It costs one million dollars to have internet at your house...unless you steal it from the camp. :)
• I only have cell phone service if I'm sitting on one cushion of my couch. I can't move or I lose it. It's not even my favorite cushion. Lame.
• One time some people from down the road chased their pet pig through my neighbors yard. Apparently it had escaped. That's just awkward.
• Starbucks - 60 miles. Walmart - 30 miles. That's enough to make me consider moving. :)

But...to me, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. I don't think I ever want to live in a big city...and here are a few reasons why:

• Nobody every comes over unless I ask them to. No trick or treaters or Jehovah's witnesses or people selling candy door to door.
• You should see the stars.
• I can be as loud or ridiculous as I want and no one cares. I only have one neighbor who is ever there...and they are louder than I am! (Just kidding Thomas fam:)
• No traffic! Except when you get stuck behind a tractor driving 10 miles an hour on a road with no passing lane....but that is rare.
• I spend less money...because I don't really make 'casual purchases.'
• I appreciate the quiet. No sirens or honking or yelling in the streets. It's nice...to be able to think and write and play the guitar.
• I can walk across the street on a pretty day and sit by the lake.
• I seem to eat better...I just strand myself with nothing but vegetables and water. It works.
• I see a lot of lovely animals. I feel like Snow White sometimes. Okay, that was an exaggeration. They don't sit on my shoulder or help me clean...but they are pretty.
• I can sit on my porch barefoot and read and no one looks down on me.
• Open space! I feel free.
• The air smells good.
• I can do fireworks.

Hahaha...I'm just realizing how white trash I sound right now. I promise I don't sit on my porch barefoot and shoot bottle rockets. Promise. I'm just saying...I could...if I wanted to...which I don't. :)

Of course if God wanted me to move into a big city I would do it. But I've always been a small-town girl. I blame this on my heritage. I feel trapped in big cities...with people on all sides of me all the time. Also, I'm really easily entertained (obviously:). I'm not used to having all types of stores and restaurants close by...so I get really excited about everything. My friend told me I sounded like Buddy the Elf this weekend in Dallas: "Wow look at the tall ceilings!" "Oh my gosh...that guy is wearing a scarf!" Hahaha...It's official. I'm a big dork. So friends, unfortunately I don't think moving to Dallas is in my near future. But I love visiting! And I miss you already. :)