Lack of Quaintness and Truck

Over all I'm really enjoying living here, interesting things to look at and ponder. Since I'm driving down roads for the fiftieth time in my life instead of five thousandth time I'm seeing new small details all the time (in the architecture and urban-scape of course), and I eat it up. There are tons of restaurants walking distance from where we live that we still have not been too. There are so many things I want to do that I'm not even close to doing, like going to the getty, and this architecture museum something. And even though our apartment is so peaceful I love how close we are to the grocery store and target, really can't be beaten.

But the lack of quaintness came apparent to me in a new way. I was searching out the perfect loveseat on craigslist and I when I saw a potential sofa, I couldn't just drop on by to take a look, there's no dropping by in la. It's either an event or it's not happening. This is partially the size of the city, and of course that lovely traffic. Which is actually the only thing I really have a problem with. But I'm already beginning to adjust. When google says fifteen, I automatically think forty, and so when it takes that long, it only feels natural. ha. As I was saying earlier, glad our necessities are close. I only hope that when Ryan goes into the studio and has to commute a bit further it won't become a nightmare (We still only have one car). We shall see.

But on another note as many friends as we do have down here, we did hit a snag the other day, none of them had a truck. Which actually makes me smile, to think that all of my friends have appropriate city-sized cars. And of course there are people back home with trucks, plenty of them, including my Brother and Ryan's Dad! But none the less we didn't have one here. So to cut to it, we ended up renting one for seventy bucks. But not to bad for being our first dilemma from being in a "new" city.