A little visitor!

Yesterday we had two unexpected visitors...one I didn't mind, Tyler may have, and one we both wanted out of our apartment!

Our first visitor came unannounced and startled me a little. I was watching TV sitting on the couch when my door opened. It was Twyala's little boy, at two years old it was all he could to do reach our door knob. He opened the door, smiled, waved and said 'Hi' then shut the door.

I don't generally leave the door unlocked so I'm not too worried that the kids just come walk in without me noticing. I think he could hear the TV and just wanted to say Hi. I just laughed because Tyler is always joking about the kids wanting in our apartment, saying that if we let them in they will never leave. haha Yesterday this wasn't the case, he just wanted to see what I was doing! lol

Our other visitor didn't come through the door! As I was brushing my teeth last night before bed I looked in the mirror and saw something crawling on the ceiling. I didn't have my glasses on so I called for Tyler, I thought it might have been a spider...which I want nothing to do with after my incident a year ago!

Nope it was a cockroach! Tyler has been compulsively spraying the doors and windows to keep the darn things out of our apartment and this guy sneaks in through a air vent on the bathroom ceiling! Luckily I have Tyler and he killed the cockroach before he could get where else in our apartment!
  

Growing up I never thought I'd say I miss Iowa...

When I was growing up in the middle of nowhere I always imagined getting out of Iowa. I wanted to be somewhere exciting, fast paced with a lot of people. I never thought I'd end up wanting to go back to those corn fields.

Of course my ten year old mind had no idea leaving Iowa would mean living in "Starville, Missippi"- That is how they pronounce it...somehow in the thirteen hours down south the Starkville, loses its 'K' and Mississippi loses a set of 'ss.'

Effective communication...I really miss effective communication. We are always repeating ourselves because people can't understand us. I'm sure they feel the same when they go north! I don't know how many times Tyler is asked, "Boy, where you from?" And once at the McDonalds drive thru the worker said, "Yankee I can't get you, drive up and order here."

Other then being able to just ask a question once, I really miss Target. The state of Mississippi does have Target stores, but not Starkville! We have to drive two hours to our nearest Target. Starkville does have Wal-Mart, which is actually really nice but is always full! I've gone in the morning, afternoon, evening and late at night it is always busy. While on the topic of stores I miss..I really miss the convenience of a mall. I was really surprised when I found out there was no mall in a college town.

But there are a lot of Dollar Generals! In just the mile around our apartment complex i think there are three or four. And there are a ton of car washes! There has to be four or five around our apartment complex.

I guess that’s just apart of moving down here! Before the move everyone said it would be a whole new world and they were right!