My space for various stuff, usually involving cat pictures. I don't really have any idea what I'm doing usually.
An incomplete list of things that excite, confuse, or scare me about living in the city after being a mountain hermit for some years
- Curb side trash pickup. This is possibly the most exciting thing ever. Today was trash day!
- Grocery stores. They exist! They're sorta everywhere. There's one like 2 minutes from my house!
- Shoe stores. Omg and there are so many shoes in them and they aren't just workboots or hiking boots.
- Optometrists. I went to the eye doctor for the first time in like 8 years, because there is one right next to the office.
- Small things! They're everywhere. They're kinda scary? They came to my door a bunch last night:

- Tiny fluffy things. @Jake has a tiny thing that I was worried my cats would eat. It wouldn't even make a decent sized snack for a bear. I'm much more used to big doggos that are used for pulling sleds or something.
- The stove and oven in my house. I'm afraid of them and still haven't used them even though I've lived here for like three weeks. They're not even gas, and yes I realize how stupid and ridiculous this is. But what if my house magically blows up????
- People are very particular that the freeway is called a freeway, not an expressway or a highway. This is very confusing and I think probably dumb and or pedantic!
- Pizza delivery. It exists! I can have a PIZZA delivered to my motherfucking HOUSE, y'all. I almost hugged the pizza guy the first time he came here. I thanked him a ton and he welcomed me to the city and said it was a great neighbourhood. We're basically besties now even though we only met the once.
I feel like @weffey can probably help add onto this list of bizarre things I've been unreasonably excited, confused, or afraid of since moving here. But this is all I can think of for now.





He almost was a snack for the shark at the party!
I loved how buster (the giant 80 pound dog) was afraid of tiny cookies who weighs maybe 5 pounds.
Use your stove, silly person! <3
Honestly it isn't so much that I'm afraid of the stove, I just haven't had a reason to use it yet. The oven, on the other hand...
But no bears to sort thru trash! By the way how are cats surviving the move? Mine are just getting over our being away for so long - maybe tonight we wont' each have to sleep with one our heads.
Hah my cats are finally adjusting. Though one of them totally did sleep on my head last night.
Little people are way fun. They make most things more fun
They're scary in hordes!
that is a fail giphy if i ever saw one.
haha oh dear giphy. yes, fail.
You comment about grocery stores made me laugh, because the big news in my (very much a city) neighborhood right now is that our local store just closed, and it will be an entire year before a new one opens in its space. Where will we shop in the meantime?!?!? (Answer: at one of the many other grocery stores a short drive away. For most of us, this is no problem. There is a retirement apartment tower right across from where the store was, though, and I suspect some of them will have a hard time.)
Anyway, thanks for the chuckle and the perspective!
The grocery store where I lived before was like an hour away! So yes, grocery stores are very exciting to me.
Wait, you didn't have a stove or oven in your last place? Did you use a microwave, the fireplace, or just tear into your cold food with your fangs and claws?
Gas stoves still make me nervous.
I totally had a stove and oven at my last place, both of which were gas. I didn't actually have a microwave.
I finally used the oven here last night. I was mostly afraid of it because I had never used it before, I guess, and no one else had? It was a brand new oven and so I knew it was going to smell like chemicals a ton, which I somehow extrapolated in my head to "the house will explode and die" even though I knew that was totally unreasonable!
Ahhh, got it!
Can confirm and validate your list. Right now I'm still in awe of the idea of a 24 hour grocery shop... Like whaaaat?
Also so pumped that doggos were part of the Halloween festivities at Imzy. Haha.
Buster looked baller with the clock necklace that was for my white rabbit costume, so I let him have it.
Oh my gosh he looks awesome. Hehe. 💚