Being grown up

I officially moved into my apartment for the coming year this past Sunday/Monday. It's kind of exciting, I feel grown up now even though I'm still in college and have yet to turn 21. I have to pay bills and regularly do the dishes and cook and clean and buy toilet paper. I'm also living on my own for the time being, I have yet to decide if I want someone else to sublet for the summer because my roommate for the fall is back home in Philly. I'm sure I'll end up telling Marissa she can live with me, I should probably call her back soon though, to relieve her from crazy housemates.

Cooking is perhaps my favorite part of having a real apartment. Though I'm not actually cooking at my apartment (I eat all my meals at a friend's apartment) I do have to cook and clean and do all that good stuff. We've made some great meals, and being the only vegetarian in the house, I've done a great job adapting everything they make into something I can eat. Granted, they've also been very considerate to make two separate batches of things or leave out the meat. If I had the money, I would have loved to get produce from the farm for the summer, but that's out of my budget range.

I'm also quite a fan of not having to pay for laundry. Quarters are one of my favorite coins, perhaps cause of the most recent (but sadly now over) state quarter campaign and the bicentennial drummer boy quarters. Thus, I was saddened every time I had to spend quarters just to clean my clothes. Now I can put in the laundry and not have to worry about someone else taking all the machines and I can listen to loud obnoxious music at the same time and dance too.

In many ways though, this summer has made me reminisce over last summer. A wonderful summer spent with my sibling reading, cooking, doing lacrosse things (I'm still working on trying to get some sticks here), and just being environmental together and loving plants. My sibling is quite wonderful, although I probably have a biased opinion. You can see for yourself though, cause zie has a blog as well, though zie hasn't updated recently. boooo. We had good times, and I guess I'm just hoping this summer will be just as nice, possibly better cause I like all of my coworkers this time around.

So here's to hoping I actually get all my research done and that this summer is as awesome as the last.