If Kodiak and I were dating, we'd be at that point in our relationship now where all of those personality quirks that you find adorable and endearing at the beginning start to lose their appeal or even become a little annoying.
At the beginning of our relationship, I would have thought things like You only have one grocery store? That's so cute, or You only bring out the sun once every two weeks? I love how you do your own thing! or Your road system only has about 100 miles worth of roads to drive on? Oh, so daring!
Don't get me wrong; I still love Kodiak. I'm just starting to wonder a little bit about why. I keep trying to remind myself that a lot of this has to do with the time of year and the weather. I haven't seen the sun since last Tuesday (today is Wednesday). I've lived in places where the weather is glorious, sometimes even hot, in May. But Kodiak isn't the first place I've lived where I've wanted to punch Mother Nature in the face by the end of this month. (Powell, Wyoming, for example, was intolerably dreary in May every year that I lived there.)
For now, I'll try to focus on the fact that dreary weather doesn't mean I have nothing to look forward to. My last day of work before summer vacation is this Friday. Crab Fest, the biggest Kodiak event of the year, is this weekend. Next month, we'll go on a trip to the mainland to visit T's parents in Anchor Point and to go to Anchorage. I'm hoping that, by the time we get back to Kodiak in mid-June, it will feel a little more like summer here.
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