Settling in....it will just take time!

It's been 2 weeks since we moved to Perth, ON and we are settling in to a routine.  Life in Perth is different than outside of Westport.  I can walk to places, not that I have yet, and it feels like there are more options for evening activities.  It is a short walk or drive to those activities, so I am more inclined to get out in the evening.

I joined a local concert band.  It is a fun mix of ages and abilities although I am in some serious need of practice.  I haven't played seriously since high school and that was a long time ago.  I have picked up my flute periodically and run some scales but this will be interesting.  I have a while before we actually play in public, but I will be practicing so that I can at least pretend to keep up a little this coming week.

As apartments go we were blessed with a nicely renovated one.  The stove smells when we use it because it is so new and the whole apartment still has a slightly new renovation smell to it.  That will soon change but it's taking some adjustment to get used to living here.  For Laura and Faith too, I am sure.  I struggle most with the light that comes through my window at night, it's the orange glow of city light-pollution, not a white moon.  I don't really enjoy that, but I always sleep with the blinds open so I maximize the sun in the morning.  I have also had trouble with the noise.  Most people would probably say it's quiet but there is traffic and a train that I am not used to.  And I miss laying in my bed, looking out at the forest.  In the place at Little Crosby Lake Road, it was like sleeping in the forest because there were so many windows and it was only a ground floor.  We are on the 6th floor in Perth and I can see the Mark's Work Warehouse sign when I look out the balcony window, that a little weird still.

I will get used to it....it will just take time.  That is the latest phrase I repeat to myself.  It will just take time.  As we have changed the staffing structure at work, it will just take time to transition.  It will just take time to figure out how to work with less people.  It will just take time to figure out my new role.

So it will just take time.

PS  I wrote this weeks ago and am only now posting it.  A little update is in order.  Laura, Faith and I are learning to live together and have to keep reminding each other of how recently we actually moved.  It feels like we have been here longer than we have.  So patience and grace is what we are practicing!  And the train is getting less noticeable but some days it's still really LOUD!  Work is just going to take time to adjust too and I feel a little like I won't be able to keep up with the added tasks and duties, but in reality......it will just take time!