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Travel like the gypsies living off of any

June 29, 2008 in Personal · No comments

Here I sit in my new apartment after the first night of sleeping in it. My roommate is at the dining table on the computer, our blinds and sliding door are open, the dog is wandering somewhat suspiciously around and it doesn’t really feel like home yet. Often, I catch myself referring to my parents’ house as home and have to stop and take it back.

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In your mausoleum

June 20, 2008 in Personal · No comments

I am moving out. I am signing a lease on Tuesday. I am moving to Shoreline next week. I am no longer going to be living with my parents and siblings after nearly 20 years. This is ridiculous.

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And if you were an ocean, I’d learn to float

June 12, 2008 in Personal · No comments

Here’s the thing about being 19: It sucks. At least for me. (Not like being 20 will magically make things better, though.) I feel like I’m on the verge of so many things coming together, but I’m stuck in the waiting. I’m in a career that won’t really officially be “started” until four years from January when I’ll have a degree. I’ve found someone I want to spend the rest of my life with, but we have/want to wait until finances come more in order. And, most immediately, I’m trying to find a place to move to.

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It all will fall, fall right into place

June 3, 2008 in Personal · No comments

Now that I’m not going to Russia, I have a lot to decide and figure out in the next month. Where I’m going to live. Plans and goals for continuing work. Plans for school. And then all the other “little” things I want to figure out — when I can get a dog, for example. But those are obviously lower priority.

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