Something New

As I curled my hair this morning it occurred to me that I have lived in Colorado for nearly 19 years. We started out in Fort Collins before my fifth grade year and I stayed there until Babe graduated late 2002. Since then we have lived in Denver and currently reside in Aurora, a suburb of Denver. The mountains are great, when you actually make time to go up there, the weather is nice, winter 2006-2007 not included and the summers can be like living under a broiler set on high. But in general, the weather can be pretty predictably nice. The school system in our area is one of the best in the country and the cost of living isn't the best but it's doable. So why am I so strongly fixed on something new?

This fixation started when Babe took me along on a business trip to Houston, Texas, where I enjoyed just being in a new place. I know every city has its drawbacks, that's a reality in every area of life, so I'm not foolish enough to think a move would mean the best of everything. I am fully aware of Houston's location on the map, so I do know that the humidity can be brutal and I've heard terrible things about the size of the insects that dwell there. Yikes. I don't like spiders so I know that the random nasty creatures that exist there could be a real issue for a bug-a-phobe like me!

So as each new flake falls from our Colorado sky I start thinking about how nice it would be to live somewhere where snow isn't such a prevalent part of the winter. To live where the highs are rarely lower than 50 degrees would be perfect. The flip side of that would be the highest high temperatures...100 degrees in Colorado is tough, but add humidity to that and you can bet I'll be locked indoors with the air conditioning keeping me nice and cool. But I don't go outside when it's 100 degrees in Colorado, so really, how different would it be?

Where we would go is the big question, but even bigger is why I want to move so badly. Everything about life right now is quite good, so why throw that away for a move that would take all of us some time to adjust to? I've gone over this a few times already just today, but maybe I want to live life depending on myself and Babe to keep 'us' afloat because we have quite a bit of family here near the Mile High City. Maybe I've been here so long I just want to experience a different way of life, way of doing things, seeing things. Maybe nothing will change but the weather if we relocate, but it just might be worth it if for nothing more than something new.