I am extremely happy to report that I am writing this in the company of no one. As I mentioned in my previous post, I had a difficult time finding housing. I ended up needing to string a few things together until I end up in my final “home” on October 1st. Also everything is expensive. I honestly did not at all expect New Hampshire to be expensive. I did not think anyone cared about this state. So in an effort to save a few dollars I booked a cheap air bnb for the first ten days.
The circumstances definitely could have been a million times worse but nonetheless they were not ideal. The guy I stayed with was nice enough but quickly learned he is definitely a bro. After about five minutes of being there, I was sitting on my bed and he comes to the doorway and spills his life story which included a tale about knocking up some English chick so he now has a British daughter living across the pond and he lives there in the spring. The sheer volume of his voice is enough to make you go deaf. I had to call him one morning because he dead bolted the door and I work night shift. So after an hour drive home and a thirteen hour shift I came home and couldn’t get in the condo. Anyway, his voicemail. It sounded like he was shouting through a megaphone. Oh and he finally woke up after I buzzed the place a few times. When I got in the condo and he apologized he told me that I could always scale the balcony. He lives on the second floor. What a guy.
He’s a bachelor and the place was fine enough but he had no soap and no towels in the bathrooms or kitchen. WHAT. I literally carried around a small bottle of hand sanitizer because I’m not interested in touching the bodily fluids that are on any of those surfaces. In that first five minute life story I became a part of, he told me that he is known as “the christmas tree guy.” He owns a Christmas tree farm and sells/distributes them around the area. So he comes home one night and walks in with a live Christmas tree. Proceeds to walk around shirtless and pose the tree in various parts of the apartment. All the while he is telling me a story about some schizophrenic chick he went on a date with that he picked up at the gym a long time ago. One morning I casually made conversation by asking him if he was going to be able to enjoy the long labor day weekend at all to which he replied ” I mean, am I supposed to do something? I thought until I turned 30 that if I wasn’t getting drunk and having sex with models that I wasn’t doing it right but now…” – so that’s what I was dealing with. I also woke up multiple times to him yelling profanities and slamming the kitchen table and then I would walk out and he would say “oh I hope I wasn’t being too loud.” I suppose this is what a $28/night air bnb gets you.
I am so happy I am by myself. I am sitting here drinking a glass of wine and listening to the ocean waves crash outside the condo. SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS. Just basking in my solitude.
I really just needed to tell you all about this guy. The last ten days have been a bit rough and this guy did not help. Turns out I am not handling the whole being 2,000 miles away from Brad thing very well. Despite the fact that this is totally my own doing, I am finding it difficult. I am hoping I will just get used to it and it will be fine! I really don’t know how military spouses handle this sort of thing. I would die.
My dad drove out with me again and we had a great trip! We explored several of the towns in the area and really enjoyed ourselves 🙂 I went hiking last weekend and climbed two of the mountains out here. Most the elevations of the mountains here are 4,000ft or less so the elevation is way easier to deal with compared to Montana as far as breathing goes. I did not feel like I wanted to die and I did not get nauseous at all! The only thing with these trails is that they are pretty much straight up so you are gaining quite a bit of elevation in a short distance. I enjoyed the hikes though, they were kind of fun because there were a ton of rocks that you had to actually climb up so it made it challenging. I am looking forward to working my way towards the White Mountains. Casey, one of my friends and another travel nurse I met in Montana took an assignment in Vermont so she will be close enough that we will get to continue our adventures! I’m excited about that.
I also could not be happier about being near water. I have enjoyed the beach several times already and am hoping to get a few more days in before the weather changes! The Hampton Seafood festival was/is this weekend. I went yesterday afternoon and it was such a letdown. I mean, I am in New England. So I was expecting some seriously awesome seafood vendors to be here. Turns out most of the vendors were basically the equivalent of Red Lobster – they had seafood but it was definitely geared towards tourist and places I would never eat in my life. I did manage to hunt down one decent vendor, they are a lobster pound and their lobster roll was extremely delicious. So, it wasn’t a total loss. In addition to the poor food choices, the bands that have been playing sound like a bunch of 60 year old drunk men trying to do karaoke. Woof.
I won’t really be doing too much the next few weeks in an effort to save money for my trip back to Milwaukee on the 20th so I will probably update after that. I really just needed to unload about living with The Situation. A few photos below but between crying and trying to stay out of the condo I was I haven’t done much photography so stay tuned for that as well 🙂
Cheers!