Yesterday Kohl’s had a huge anniversary sale. I really wanted to go shopping and get a few new pairs of shoes, but eventually decided not to. The biggest problem was that I had already seen the stock at the closest store and it wasn’t impressive, so we’d have to travel a bit further to the next closest store during rush hour traffic. Then I started thinking about how long the cashier lines get at Kohl’s on regular days and that was it. No go.
This is just another reason why I can’t wait to move. Our new place is a five minute drive from a huge mall and the surrounding area is chuck full of every store and restaurant you can imagine. Just about everything is in the same general area whereas now we have to go in completely opposite directions to visit both the Walmart and Target. In our new town they are across the street from one another. So instead of having to spend several days shopping, we can do all of it in one day and still hit all the places we like to go.
We drove around the new neighborhood a couple of weeks ago to get a feeling for where everything is located, other than the shopper’s paradise, and learned we have a brand new 24-hour Walgreens a block away. Across the street from our subdivision is a huge post office, and the library is only two/three blocks away (score!). On the safety front, it turns out that we live directly between two police stations – one for our town and the town we border on. That always makes me feel good. As our subdivision is on a golf course, all the landscaping is nice too. I’m really getting excited about the move. We close in 8 days and move in 22. Not too bad. I think when we first found out we had the place we had 50-something days before moving so we’re more than halfway there.
As moving day gets closer, I am going to be posting my list of things I will and will not miss about living here. I’m itching to start packing just because I’m bored. I went clean-crazy the past couple of days and scrubbed the toaster oven and kitchen floor. I got really lazy lately and need to get back in the mode as I’m going to have THREE bathrooms to clean in the new place. That’s three toilets. Yuck! I’m definitely not looking forward to that.
Yay for new houses! How exciting. I hope you post pics.