One of my favourite children's stories growing up was City Mouse and the Country Mouse. I think back then I liked it because it starred mice, but today I've been thinking about country living and city living.
I'm visiting the city, I live in the country and both have their amazing traits which I find to be somewhat mutually exclusive.
Last night I went to my dear friend Samantha's documentary premiere for Oil Literacy and it was fantastic. It made me seriously miss living in the city where I get to go see things like this. Then today I did my true favourite city activity: going bargain shopping then to some grocery stores that worry about the ingredients in their products so I don't have to. I didn't really find any deals or much in the way of food, but it was so fun just to go out looking. And tonight I get to have a dinner date with my friend Andrea and we are going to have amazing foods that are practically impossible to find back home. It will be a delicious, healthy feast to be sure. Also this weekend, I watched as one of my best friends got waited on by a professional wedding dress lady, and she ended up buying a glorious dress for her wedding next year.
It has definitely been a time of doing things that I love, and these things are not the types of things I get to do back home - especially the wedding dress shopping.
On the other hand, I am looking forward to getting back home where all my friends and the activities that we do are walking distance from my house, where a fun evening with girlfriends can be spent crocheting hats and headbands, and where my family outnumbers my friends by a long shot. It is more quiet in the country, less things to be tempted to spend money on, and a lot more fresh air things to do like skiing. And, just like the country mouse, I feel like I don't mind that there are less of the finer things in life because I actually have the time to enjoy what I have more. Plus, when I come to the city I can better appreciate all the gifts a bigger centre has to offer.
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