May
28
It's been about two weeks since I graduated college, packed up my life, said goodbye to all my friends and made the 8 and a half hour drive across the state of Texas. Needless to say a lot has changed in my life over these past fourteen or so days. This definitely wasn't my first choice of what to do after I graduated, but you know what? I'm actually kinda enjoying it (don't tell my dad that). I know that I'll probably feel differently in a few months, when it doesn't just feel like I'm home for summer vacation, and all my boxes are completely unpacked and the permanent feeling of everything has settled. But for now I've decided to make a list of things or reasons I like living in Monahans. So, here we go (in no particular order)....I get to go on walks with my grandma. Right now this is a hypothetical statement, because she keeps cancelling on me. Every afternoon I call her to see if we're going to go walking and everytime she says we'll start tomorrow, or Tuesday, or in a few days. Come to think of it I think maybe she's avoiding me....
Watching Deadliest Warrior with my parents. I never thought I'd like a show on SpikeTV, but it really is pretty interesting. Each episode they put two famous warriors or tribes against each other to see who would win in a full out battle. They have all these tests and simulations to prove which weapons and defenses are most advanced. I've seen William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu, Apache vs. Gladiator, and they are supposed to have an episode that shows the IRA vs. Taliban, talk about good tv! Which leads me to....
We have TV! For the past three years the only televison I saw was on my MacBook or the occasional friends house for season premiers or finales. I actually didn't miss it that much because you can watch pretty much anything online these days, but it is nice to have a television again.
I spend less time online. My parents don't have our wireless router set up because it apparently makes their computer run really slow for some reason. I was going to call the internet company and have them fix it so I could use my laptop, but I don't think I'm going to. Since the only computer I can use now is in my parents office, it makes it a lot easier for me to not be on facebook as much or read celebrity gossip all the time. Life is better with less internet.
People skills. When you live in a small town everyone either knows who you are, who your family is, or recognizes you from somewhere. Avoiding people is impossible. That makes things a little difficult for me because when I was at school I would see people that I know, good friends, and I would just put my iPod in and pretend I didn't see them because I didn't want to have to talk to them and go through the whole "how are you?" "good, how are you?" "blah, blah, blah." I can't do that here, everyone is really friendly. And I know that A&M is supposed to be one of the friendliest campuses in the nation with the whole "howdy" thing, but seriously A&M has got nothing on Monahans, America. I'm forced to make small talk with people who know who I am while I have no idea who they are. For an introvert this is an extremely uncomfortable thing, but I'm getting better.
Living is free and I make $$. I know it'd probably sound better not to put this on the list, but seriously it is a really good thing.
Don't they have dinosaurs in Monahans? I think I read that somewhere. I'm not sure but I would definitely count dinosaurs as a good thing.
I know what you mean about small talk I hate it! Thats why we always have super deep convos all the time.
Also, abs of steel.