I really wish we were already in the Northwest. I'm so tired of living here. I just feel like I'm in a rut and can't get out. I'm so excited about living in a new city and exploring everything. Living here for so long has gotten pretty old and seeing the same stuff all the time is tiresome. It just seems like a change would do me and my husband a lot of good right now. I'm barely going to make it the next four months, just waiting for the end of January.

There are a lot of mosquitoes here and I'm tired of them. They sneak inside our apartment often and I don't want to stay in one place outside for very long because I don't want to get bitten. They're just a nuisance. I tried to find statistics online about mosquito density by state, but I couldn't find anything, but I'm assuming that the cooler weather would mean that there would be fewer mosquitoes in Washington and Oregon.

So, the move is getting closer and I'm thinking of a lot of reasons why I'm looking forward to moving.

1. Change - This is a really big reason and it includes a lot of other little things. I'm looking forward having a new city to explore and discovering and adapting to all the little ways that it's different up there than it is here.


2. Living in an urban area - I've talked before about how I'm tired of living in the suburbs. In Seattle and Portland there are more livable-urban-areas, which are more livable than the ones here. I can't wait to be footsteps away from museums, urban exploration, street performers,public transportation, and other cool urban amenities.


3. Sustainable lifestyle - As a whole, people don't tend to be very environmentally conscious in Texas. There are a few enlightened people, but it seems that most people don't make much of an effort to limit their ecological footprint. I'm looking forward to living among like-minded people when it comes to the environment, where I'll be given more opportunities to be nice to the environment. There will be more environmentally-sound businesses to do business with, I'll be able to talk to more people about ways to limit our environmental harm, and I'm really excited about getting to take more public transportation.


4. Parks & Outdoors - I like going to parks here, so I'm excited about going to parks there. The parks there are bigger and prettier, and aside from regular city parks, there are more opportunities overall to spend time outdoors.


5. Weather - The summer here wasn't bad at all, by Texas standards, but even still it's been in the 90s for the last month. I can't wait to move up there and not have to sweat when I go outside. Sure, it's colder there, but I like the cold weather.