Life and Stuff

My favorite season is Spring and I love when it starts to warm up, ever so slightly! The flowers start to peek there heads out and the trees begin to come back alive. When the snow is finally gone and the grass starts to show, we can finally get down to the business of taking care of the yard again. You have to love the sounds of the children playing outside again because the winter has all but silenced them. I love the birds coming home (I live in the North) and the geese flying in every evening, squalking about as they pass by.

I had a hard time sleeping and I got up real late. My daughter is sick with a sore throat and heavy chest so I had to call her out of school. I had to straighten out a transportation issue with the company that provides rides to and from the Doctor for me as I do not have a car. My mother in law is staying with me and we have just finished our coffee and I am going to surf on the Internet. Checking my mail and playing games like Bingo and Catch 21. The rest of the day is mine.

More about where I live. Oakland does not have a great crime rate and the schools are paltry at best. But, if you do your research and get in with a good school and find a neighborhood with a sense of community and safety, you are golden. Well, of course there is the cost of living. That is horrendous and would probably deter most people from moving here in the first place. A modest home that is out in the Oakland Hills would cost you at least $500,000 and that home would probably require at least 100,000 in immediate work for it to be livable.

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I live in Oakland, CA and no other city compares to Oakland. There are a number of downfalls with this city and this area of the country but they are easily outweighed by its unique positive qualities. It is diverse, which for my family is an absolute deal breaker. Not only is it diverse but it is integrated and diverse. We have some of the most interesting activities that abound so that you never have a weekend where you just decide to go roam the mall or watch tv because there is nothing else of interest. Every weekend we bike, hike, go to the beach, go to the City, etc.