10 things we like about Ruby

There are many reasons why we love living in Ruby, the 5th wheel beauty… here are the top ten

1. We get to be close all the time
1. Ruby has a total of 275 square feet… not too big and not too small. .. Well the shower's too small, but it just means more encouragement to take shorter showers.

2. Cleaning up is easy
1. If the place is a total mess, and Trace has every toy and every can out, it probably takes one person 5 minutes to make the place look picked up; however, if Trace is helping it probably takes more like 10 minutes.

3. Traces Bed
1. We made a bed for Trace next to ours. It’s a few inches lower than ours and sinks down in the middle. He likes to roll around a lot in his sleep so the sunken middle makes it so that he has to really get a good start to roll up to us in the night… He makes it up to us every night, but I like to think it buys us a few extra minutes before he starts unconsciously steam rolling us.

4. We have everything we need, and nothing we don’t need
1. We had to send a lot of stuff home when we ventured into RV living. We haven't missed any of it. Hopefully we can keep that going when we move into a home.

5. Our windows have screens and we have a screen door
1. Our last place didn’t have these… You don’t really know what you’ve got till its gone in this instance

6. We get to be "home-ish" owners.
1. Although there's not much to living in an RV, we do get to do some maintenance. We also can modify it in any way we want without trying to figure out if our landlord would approve or not 

7. Our Jack-knife sofa
1. We like to fold out the little (thin and short) thing and watch movies together on it. It’s a good thing that the three of us like to cuddle or else one of us would enevitably fall off

8. Mobility
1. We are looking into the future with this one. Clinical year (starting in January) has the potential to be one of lots of moving. We may have one clinical that is 5 minutes from home and then another that is 2 and a half hours away… So we should be able to always be within 20min of some kind of trailer parking space the entire year

9. Its not creepy
1. Because every single foot of the 275 can be seen from anywhere in the RV, It takes almost no time to reassure yourself that no one or thing is hiding anywhere… I don’t know why this would be a thought that someone would have, but just in case someone did, it would be quickly set at ease… (I've practiced it a few times this past week just in case someone would need to know… I didn’t need to know, but just in case someone else did… because I don’t worry about those things…)
2. Our last apartment took quite a few minutes of heart-pounding hide and seek before you knew there was no one planning on spending the night without you knowing… the street we used to live on was a little creepy, okay. I think it’s a pretty logical thought to have. And I just know that someone had died up in our attic (the smell was awful- and although we made ourselves feel better by saying it was probably just a dead bird… I'm still not convinced). I never got up the nerve to climb up in the attic and check.  SO THANKFULLY, our new home has no attic and no hiding places, unless you are a midget.

10. Laundry Shoot
1. One might think that an RV has no luxury features… This is not true. We have a laundry shoot that sends our dirty laundry into our lower storage area… one foot below. I don’t know how we dealt with the dirty laundry before, but now we don’t have to. 

We found out today that we will be relocating to Tupelo MS for our clinical year. It's 3+hrs south of where we are now. We have no clue what's down there... except of course Elvis' birthplace.