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[Sour Grapes]

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I have three announcements:

1. Moving is very stressful. But I already knew that.

2. I have a Billy Currington song stuck in my head, and I don't even think the song has a catchy tune!

3. A friend told me today that my oldest daughter is the first child under the age of six who didn't try to beat up her -- my friend's -- pets.


How are all of you doing?

[Alex]

1. I drink 3 cans of diet coke a day.
2. I've been on this forum since April 7th, 2010.
3. Cheetos taste fake.

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[Sour Grapes]

Well, this move was a trial move and I'm moving back. I'll find a different temporary residence. I think I'll go crazy if I stay in the place I came to this past week. It's a shame, too, because I really thought I would like it. I do like it, parts of it, but my family can't stay in this house with other families. There isn't enough room for all of us. There is barely enough room for me. I'm on a long yet small couch, having to sleep on my side. My husband only lasted a day here before leaving, and I'm not going to stay here until August or so without him. What's more, it's very loud here. People come in and out all day and night, and no one has any privacy.

I've also somehow become the unpaid daycare provider. I can't do that. I already have work. I can do that on stormy off-days, but I can't be a one-woman source of entertainment 24/7. That is exhausting! I entertain a huge group of kids from the ages of two through five while also taking care of babies and cooking every meal all day (which has been nothing but a lot of spaghetti because there is not much in the fridge here) and I'm expected to keep the other adults in this house company all night... and all day, and...

AH, NO.

My biggest issue with this is that there are just too many people! I shouldn't dread waking up in the morning. That in itself would be less of an issue if these people understood I and my family. That's tough. What can you say? "I'm sorry, but my party and yours do not understand each other, and frankly speaking, none of us have the patience to stick around with hopes that we eventually will"?

I'm expected to socialize constantly. I'm then asked why I'm so much more tired. If I don't socialize constantly, my fellow boarders think that I don't like them. I don't dislike them. I told them that I have Asperger's syndrome, and I know they've been more sympathetic since my telling them this, but they seem to think that as long as I am not CONSTANTLY WITH AT LEAST TEN PEOPLE, then they're failing me or something odd like that.

"You don't like us! You're not talking to us!"

Good gravy. I like you, but I have nothing to say if you're going to talk about people in this neighborhood because I just came here and I don't know who those people are. No, no, no, that does not mean I want you to invite them over at three in the morning. I like you, but I barely know you. I'm not snubbing you if I would rather slip outside to call people I actually have known for years or for my entire life.

I am so far out of my element!

Time for Summer Residence Plan B. Wish me lots of luck.

As I wrote this, people ran by me chasing their dogs and cats with leashes that are always slipping off at the collars.