Adventures Living Alone

It is been a while since I have had a post about me and my life so I thought this week I would give everyone an update. I have been living in my little house for about 2 months now. For anyone who has not seen it I have a living area with a small kitchen in the corner, a bedroom, a bath, and a closet. It is very cozy and I absolutely LOVE it. After living with roommates for the last 4 years of my life living on my own is an amazing blessing and reduces the amount of stress considerably. I cannot describe how much I enjoy cleaning up after ONLY myself. I know this might be hard to believe for some of the female members of my family but I actually do try and keep it fairly neat.

I have also acquired a futon, a couple of lamps, a rug, and a small coffee table. My living area now consists of more than a TV, my weight bench, and small kitchen table. It is really turning out to look quite homey and it is a very ‘comfortable’ room. I have not really done anything with my kitchen since I moved in. One of the interesting things that is both depressing in some ways, inspiring in others, and I think is gradually teaching me about myself is cooking alone. I am trying to compose my thoughts on this subject and hopefully will have a blog post about it in a couple weeks. I am still in the market for an office chair but I am hoping Office Max or Walmart might have some back to school sales closer to the start of the semester.

Over the last couples of months I have gotten into the basic routine of general living on my own. Outside the basic routine of simply cooking, cleaning, and going to work I have had the added joy and experience of dealing with, you guessed it, bills. Formerly an apartment dweller, whose rent included all utilities, this has been a bit new. When I was first setting up many of my utility accounts, electric, water, and internet, everyone but the water company did not believe I actually existed. Having never had a credit card, or a credit report, both the electric company and the internet company did not believe I was actually a real person. I had to fax numerous documents to both before they would even consider me for service. On top of that I found out yesterday that the electric company had switched account numbers on me after the first month. I had been paying my bill to the wrong account number!! There were late fees, the accumulation of 2 ½ months of electric bill, and the question of where all my money had gone. After spending almost an hour on hold, talking with a general customer service person and an account specialist I got the situation sorted out.

Today I am heading down to San Antonio to see Janille, celebrate the 4th of July, and have a long weekend with some great company. I have not forgotten about my promise for the 10 most ridiculous lines ever heard in a country song so maybe that will happen next week. I have also been thinking about a lot of other stuff lately so my 7 or 8 readers might be in for several posts not entirely about me over the next couple of weeks. I hope this post keeps you satisfied until something more exciting than boiling over my pasta happens to me >.<. Many thanks to Laura for mentioning me on her blog. I do not know if I will be able to live up to the praise she gave me but I will try.