On the other hand....No, there is no other hand

50 points if you know where the title of this post came from

So last week I posted about some of the things I'm excited about in our upcoming move to Seattle (this Saturday, YAY!). Here's a post on the flip side: Things That I'm NOT Going To Miss About Utah. What? That's not the flip side? Eh, I don't really care.

UDOT. Enough said.

Snow. While I like white Christmases, I don't like snow starting in October and ending.....well, I'll let you know when it finally ends this year.

Hot summers. This is made worse by the fact I don't sweat, I RASH like crazy.

Annual winter/spring smog. I have to keep a bag in the car because I *literally* get sick sometimes when I leave the house.

The city that I live in. Let's face it, it sucks.

The school district. One of the reasons I pushed for the move so much was because Liam will be entering school soon. The Alpine school district bites, especially for special need kids.

Mountains. They make me feel very claustrophobic. Weird I know.

Mormon culture. Utah people are odd and xenophobic.

The Right Wingers that run this state. While I know there will be Republicans in Washington but Utah ranked third most conservative state in US (the first two were tied). The ones that especially piss me off are the ones that ASSume that since I don't agree with them, I must be stupid/uninformed/emotional. And then (since most of them are Mormon) when I get mad about THEIR rudeness, they'll quote a 2006 conference talk by Elder Bednar about choosing not to be offended and that "I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive...." This does nothing to piss me off less. Apparently I'm not allowed to get offended when YOU say something rude and offensive. Rant over.

Xeroscaping. I hate looking at brown and gray. It's depressing.

Aridness. It's too @#$$%^@# dry here.

This is not a comprehensive list of the things I will not miss about Utah; it's just the least offensive ones. I've turned off the comments because I'm sure I've pissed off someone (see paragraph re: Elder Bednar's talk) and I don't really care what you think. If you're someone to bitch about this list, chances are you are among the reasons I will not be missing Utah.

Things I look forward to in Seattle

Rain. I'll probably get sick of it, but I like rain.

Fresh seafood. The only thing you can get around here is mutant trout from Utah Lake.

The kids being in separate rooms. Then hopefully they will sleep a little better and not tear their room to bits every morning.

A fenced backyard. With no deer running around to strafe the ground.

Furniture buying. I'm excited to have my OWN furniture that is not whatever we could scrounge up while we were in college.

No having to drive forever to get to anything. The closest decent grocery store is 10 minutes through some very nasty construction; Target, Costco, and frankly anything else is 15 minutes plus. The freeway currently takes 30 minutes to get to.

Asians. The area we're moving to is 22% Asian.

I knew I wasn't that creative

Today Google informed me that if he was still alive, Roger Hargreaves would be celebrating his 76th birthday today. Hargreaves is the author of the Mr. Men and Little Miss books. I LOVED these books when I was in Singapore, but when I moved here, no one knew what I was talking about so I started to believe that I had imagined the whole thing. Nice to know that I wasn't crazy.

Hargreaves also inspired me to write my own story about the Heart Family and two siblings named "Sweet" Heart and "Black" Heart. Sweet Heart was a little goody-two-shoes and Black Heart was a criminal (not so) mastermind who often got into trouble leading to cardiac arrest from their uncle "Brave" Heart. Give me a break, I was 10.