Cure for the Roommate “Divorce”
Thank you so much for stopping by! And thanks so much for any prayers you may have said on my behalf because of my last post! God is good, and my Papaw will be fine, thank the Lord!
My roommate took her last load home last week. It sucks she couldn’t stay at the school. I’m gonna miss her. But I guess when choices are made, consequences must be accepted.
Now, I can’t really think of a good segue for my next topic, so I’m just gonna jump right out and say it…
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO TAKE A SHOWER WITHOUT A SHOWER CURTAIN??
I do.
Back in June when my now-gone roommate and I moved into this apartment, we went out together and bought essentials with our money pooled. Trash cans, shower liners, shower liner rings, dishes, etc.
And being the Tiffany’s shoppers, “Prada-or-Nada”, “let’s just not eat frozen pizza for the 8th time this week” people we are, we bought these items for a dollar each at the amazing dollar shop around the corner.
Anyway, when my roommate took her last load of her belongings home last week, I was not here while she packed. Therefore, some of our items that we bought and paid for together, she took.
Included in those items? You guessed it… shower liner and rings.
Don’t know why she took it. Asked her not to when we were divvying up our stuff like a divorced couple. It’s not like she NEEDS it. She’s going home to her parents’ house, who are well-equipped with such necessities. So, when I got home and saw it was gone, I asked her to put it back. To which she replied sheepishly, “I’ve already packed it in one of the first boxes and its somewhere in the bowels of the van. I don’t know where.”
Convenient, no?
And I’m back to lookin’ like an idiot, showering while crunched up against the wall.
Lovely dollar shop, here I come!
Early bird gets the worm…. Right???
I am an early bird. Always have been, likely always will be.
Which is an absolute sin to any other college student.
But its not like I can really help it. On my dad’s side, I come from a long line of bed at 7, awake at 4 early birds. Now, I’m not quite that bad. Usually bed by 11 or 12, awake by 7 or 8. This actually makes me a night owl by the standards of Dad’s side. Which is pretty funny.
But I digress.
I am usually first to go to bed between my new roommate and I as well, and first to wake up. So, it was a strange occurrence indeed when she went to sleep at the same time as me last week. As I lay there in my bed, waiting for my eyes to adjust to the dark, let me invite you into my inner thoughts…
Wow, its dark in here. And so quiet. I wonder if that will make it harder to fall asleep for me. I’m used to lights on. Roommate on the phone. Loudly. TV still on in the living room… Man. Its STILL really dark. Why aren’t my eyes adjusting yet? Oh man! What if there’s something wrong with them from always being the first one asleep, with all the lights usually on!?? I HAVE NO NIGHT VISION!!! OH, DEAR GOODNESS GRACIOUS SAKES ALIVE!!! I’M DISABLED!! I KNOW IT!! Ok, ok, calm yourself down. Maybe tonight’s just a really dark night… Ask roommate…
Followed by:
“Um, Roommate?”
“Mmm-hmm?”
“Is it always this dark in here?”
She’s promised never to let me live down that question.
EXCITING NEWS!!
I am blogging to you now from the LIVING ROOM OF OUR NEW APARTMENT!!!!!!!!!! Woo-hoo!!!!
Its very empty… Everything echoes. But its totally fine with me! More stuff will be added to the pile of junk we own before I can blink, so I’m soaking in the new apartment-ness of it all.
But the bad thing is that we are missing a few necessities such as curtains, trashcans, dishes, pots and pans, and a shower curtain.
However, I am rollin’ with the punches. And learning quite a few things along the way as well.
For instance:
1. Empty moving bags and boxes make great trashcans.
2. My sister has a deep love for her silverware and has promised to murder me should I damage any of the ones I borrowed.
3. When moving in someplace new, it is not a good idea to forget to grab a few temporary towels from your dad’s house.
4. It is entirely possible to shower without a shower curtain. Just stay very, very, very close to the wall and don’t, well, move.
5. My roommate has a pretty evil-sounding laugh. Especially when she is assembling furniture.
If you have any good advice for equipping an apartment with essentials on a budget, I would LOVE to listen!!
Have a fabulous day!
Excuse me while I remind myself…
Don’t you hate being reminded of something you THOUGHT you already knew? I don’t know about the rest of you, but it humbles me every time.
I have been ridiculously excited for the past few months about moving into my new apartment this weekend. I had planned everything around a June 1st move-in date.
God giggles at my plans.
I found out yesterday that the people who are currently in the apartment have no intention of moving out until the last minute of their lease (May 31st). If you have a calendar handy, you’ve probably already surmised that this is a Saturday. June 1st, the day I have started paying for the apartment, is a Sunday.
However.
My roommates and I are not allowed to move in until the apartment maintenance people have replaced the carpets, repainted the rooms, and made repairs. Which I assume they would not do on a Sunday. Or even get done in one day. No one ever seems to be in a rush when they do these things.
The issue: I am only permitted to stay in the dorms until tomorrow.
This leaves me a transient for at least a few days. Can’t move forward, can’t move back. Can’t go home for this time period because home is too far from work. Work is imperative because of the whole “money” phenomenon…
Thank goodness for Big Sister’s couch!
Alas, plan your life in pencil. And pray A LOT.
Because the awesome, loving God we serve DEFINITELY has a sense of humor!
