Living at Home

This weekend was really busy. Friday I got to relax and watched a movie and finished a book. Saturday I worked at Dad’s shop, worked at Potters, went shopping for a dress for formal, went to church got ready for Heather Mann’s party, went to Heather Mann’s party, went to the Presidential Ball, then went to bed. Yesterday I got up, cleaned the apartment, made frog’s eyes, and had our scentsy party then did homework, went to an ASA meeting and watched desperate housewives.

Hectic.

My postcards still aren’t done. They were supposed to be done on Friday and I went to pick them up and they looked like crap because they didn’t center the image on the paper so some of the edges were a lot smaller or nonexistent for the white border around the main image. Fortunately, the guy was really nice about it and in fact said, “These look like ass,” which made me smile and helped me not to cry because they weren’t done. He said they’d redo them and I’m going to (cross my fingers) pick them up this afternoon.

I'm kind of scared to graduate. I’ve gotten used to the college life and now its going to change again. Living at home is going to be very different. I’m used to having things a certain way and when they’re not that way, I’m going to be frustrated. I realized this when I was home for spring break. I find it really difficult to stick to my routine when I’m at home because they don’t do things the way that I do them. Plus, I won’t have personal access to the tv. I’ll have to share it a lot more than I usually do. Also, I’m spoiled at home because there’s a guide and I can find shows I want to watch even if they are on commercial at the time. At Coe, if its on a commercial I skip it and so I get to bed much earlier because I don’t see that the shows I’d like to watch are actually on. I know this is a minor detail but its just one of the many things that I’m going to have to get used to. I want to try and convince Mom and Dad to let me get cable in my room. I need to make it my own personal adult space and a tv with cable would be really helpful. I’ve lost the refrigerator argument which I’m okay with because it generates a lot of heat during the summer and that would make my room too hot. I will not give up my tv, though.

I’m scared to move home, too, because I’m really bad at doing homework there. Of course, I’m really bad at doing homework here, too, but less bad than when I’m at home. Here I have space to spread out and do stuff. At home I’ll have to first work at finding a clear space to do my homework.

I’m just complaining for the sake of complaining. Everything will work out fine. I know because I did live there for 18 years before coming to Coe and I’ll probably be there for at least 4 more. *sigh* I wish it wasn’t so. I’m a much more fastidious person than I used to be. I keep my stuff fairly organized. Stuff is much less organized at my house. I’m not complaining by any means and I know that both Mom and Dad are gone at work all day and come home and don’t want to clean up. I’m just saying that when I live there, if I have free time during the day, I’m going to be cleaning house and picking up and organizing things and keeping the mess down. The biggest problem is that if you don’t stay on top of housework, it piles up very quickly. Mostly I’m talking about the kitchen but also the paper clutter piles all over the kitchen table and the island. They will be organized and put where they need to go when I’m living there.

I’m taking home a tub of stuff a weekend from now until the end of the school year. Hopefully this will help for when I move out at the end. I will have less stuff to pack up and take home because I will have taken much of it home already. So far I think I’m doing pretty good. I’ve got a lot of stuff here that I don’t use or haven’t used in a long time and don’t foresee myself using any time between now and the end of the school year and if I do need it, I’ll find another way. I’ve taken two tubs full home already. I’m working on filling a third tub. My plan is to throw stuff in the tub over the week then when I go home, take the whole thing and unpack it when I’m there so I can bring it back and start over again. I like it because it will mean less work in the long run for me and my family when they help me move out of here. The biggest issue is that I still have so much stuff here. I’ve been living here for almost a year. I moved in last May and I’ll move out this May. A year is a long time to accumulate stuff, especially when you have a whole apartment to spread out in. Now it all has to fit into my room at home (which is not going to accommodate all of it by any means.)

Books: I finished two books over the weekend. Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey is the first book I finished (Friday evening.) It’s a part of a series of books called the Elemental Masters series that I really enjoy. Each book is loosely based on a fairy tale. This one was based on Puss in Boots. It was alright. I liked it because the main character was a ballerina. I gave it to Hillary because I thought she would like it too. The second book I finished was Undead and Unpopular by Mary Janice Davidson. This is another book in a series I’ve been reading. They are really funny, light reads. I’ve read this one before by accident because I picked it up on cd and listened to it without realizing that it was not the first book in the series. My one issue with this series is that things happen between books that they talk about in the book and make me think that I missed a book somewhere. They aren’t numbered for series order so I get very confused when they talk about some people that I’ve never met before as though I should remember them from a previous book. Minor detail to complain about, though, because the rest of the book is usually very entertaining.