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Longing For Creature Comforts March 14, 2008

Posted by Emily in : Daily Life, Saba, Texas , trackback

Our time on this island comes to a close in seven weeks. Really, it’s sort of weird. This place feels like home. Our family expanded here, and honestly, I feel like a local. I have been quite nostalgic lately. Watching every plane land, enjoying every rain storm, smelling every flower, savoring the wonderful view from my patio and enjoying the mild temperature. It kind of makes me sad to think I won’t always be a stranded-housewife-of-a-medical-student-living-on-a-deserted-island-forever. To bring myself back to reality, I started a list of things I’m not going to miss on Saba, and things I look forward too in the states . . . just to keep my perspective real.

Not Going to Miss:

Paying $5.50 a gallon for gasoline
Paying $12.00 a gallon for milk
Paying $80 a month for S-L-O-W internet
Monthly grocery bill of $800 (for two adults and one little person)
Paying to make local phone calls
Walking up hill BOTH WAYS
No access to a Vet
Bathrooms that smell like pee (since you can only flush when it’s brown. True story.)
Weekly power outages
Hanging my laundry to dry
Hand washing dishes
Taking an “army shower” to conserve on water
The very uncomfortable bed in this house

Looking Forward to:

Paying a LOT less for groceries
Sleeping in my OWN BED
Living on MY OWN FURNITURE
Shopping. Any kind
Going out to eat at fast food places (they don’t exist here)
Eating out at Posado’s in Texas
Going to Michaels Craft and finding projects to do
Taking Hannah for a walk on a FLAT SIDEWALK
Seeing the American flag everywhere
Driving my car (that currently lives in storage) that has AIR CONDITIONING and a STEREO (What a luxury, right?)
Flushing the toilet every time I pee (Which is like 80 times a day now that I’m pregnant)
Cooking in a kitchen that has more than three square feet of counter space.
CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING