Who I am

 

I live in a ten story building with 13 apartments per floor. I've been here nearly three months now and yesterday, for the first time, I went out and walked around the building. 

There is a lovely little hidden nook with a bench back in the corner and a large patio with a gazebo in the front. Yesterday was the first time I was in either place.

I see people down on the patio, or in the gazebo from my windows. I see them in the elevator and occasionally in the halls. I've been to two community dinners in our big room upstairs by the library and games area. I nod and say hi. We are all cordial, but I really don't know who anyone is yet, except for the maintenance people and a couple people at the other end of my hallway.

Of course I recognize faces I've seen and one woman has always intrigued me. She is tall with long gray hair that ends just at her chin. She is a large square woman who wears no make up and reminds me a lot of Stephanie Cole, a British actress on Waiting for God and Doc Martin.

Today I ran into her for the first time. We were in the laundry room and she recognized me! "You live on two, right?" She asked. "I love your curtains."

Now I have a place. There is the woman with the long haired dachshund, the man who takes care of the library, etc. I am the woman with the curtains!

They really are lovely curtains, a sheer pale green with long green vines that allow the light and the beautiful scenery outside to be seen inside while still giving me privacy.