Another day spent reintroducing myself with the wonderful web. So much to see and do I can hardly stand it!
My computer sits by a window that looks out over the parking lot of my apartment complex. When you sit at home all day, you have a lot of time to make imaginary friends with all the people who come out to the parking lot at various times of the day because they have places to go and things to get done. Let me share some of them with you.
First there is the guy who drives the big covered truck with lots of tools and paint in the back. He leaves early in the morning but is always sure to be home at 12:19 for lunch. Where he goes and what he does I know not.
There there is the (in my mind anyway) sweet older couple who lives directly next door. Wednesday is there shopping day. They leave at 10:00 and come back at 12:30 at which time she goes straight indoors and he is left to carry in all the groceries. (they seem to buy a huge package of toliet paper every week! I choose not to think too much about that!) He is the one who shoveled off everyone's walk yesterday when the snow was falling. Today his chore was to check the fluid levels in their car while she stayed inside and played the piano. She loves to play the Jurassic Park theme song which is slightly bizzare. My favorite is when she plays Tiny Dancer and I get to sing along. She obviously is a pretty hip lady!
Finally we come to our upstairs neighbors...two hard working and noisy medical students who leave the house at the ridiculous hour of 5:30 am, and come at 4:30 pm. Today, since it is Friday they went away for the weekend..on a little camping trip I think. I don't think they took their dog Sheba. We can hear her racing around occasionally upstairs. They are really noisy girls when they have friends over- but I figure anyone who has to be somewhere at 5:30 in the morning is entitled to some fun.
There are also 3 cats that walk past my back door at the same time everyday. One is black and is the spitting image of my mom's cat Blackberry. Then there are two tabby cats that were hard to tell apart until recently. One of them got half hit ear bitten off...so now they are distinctive.
It is like I have my own Rear Window going on here. If I notice anyone suddenly decide to dig a garden I will have to call up Grace Kelly to investigate!

1 Comments:
Rachel,
I think it is great that you are writing about what is going on in your life. However, I do find it a bit bizarre that my friend is being so candid about your "imaginary" thoughts about people you do not know all so well...more than anything, you know the exact times your neighbors come and go. Hee, hee. I guess that is what we all do periodically when we are in an airport, coffee house, or just sittin in our cars looking at others. I just think you are great and it just makes me feel more connected to you! I signed on as anonymous, but guess which one of your Beta Feta Phi girls I am.
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