Being Grown Up
I know I don't post nearly enough. I think when life is boring I post more because I'm bored--and life is not boring at all just now. Can just I say that being a grown-up mostly sucks?
Only mostly though. I have to remind myself of it, but there are a lot of good things happening right now. G and I had another dance lesson this evening, which was really fun. We've totally got the hang of our Rumba and should be totally hot when we get on the floor for our first dance as husband and wife. And we picked out and put a payment on an apartment. I'll stay with my parents once the lease on this downtown apartment is up and then move in with him in our new place after the wedding, so yay! It's super beautiful with lots of windows and cabinets and an indoor laundry room. It's actually almost the same square footage as the 2-1 that I have with Tiff and he has with Tom, but it's a 1-1 and $100 cheaper per month.
Bad things include the depressingness that is searching for a full time job, the stress of all those random things we have to buy for the wedding, and the worry over family stuff like my dad having to have surgery on his gallbladder. The job is the most stressful thing, since without a full time job I have no steady income, no way of paying for the gazillion dollars of student loans that are coming up, and no health insurance.
I've been sewing a lot lately, since I don't have money to go shopping but desperately want new clothes. I have a box of clothes that the costume shop was getting rid of last year that I picked out, and have been using them as material for new stuff. So far I made a pleated skirt out of an ugly taffeta bridesmaid dress and a nice fitted blouse out of an old-lady long sleeved shoulder-padded button up shirt.
As for my wedding dress, Tiffany is going with me to some alterations places to see what can be done. There is still enough time to, as they say on project runway, "make it work."
Also, I'm about halfway through my stack of books I got for a dollar each at half price. I read Redwall (I was upset that though it's the first in the series, it's not actually about Martin the Warrior!) and the first three Anne of Green Gables novels, which are incredibly charming. I'm about to start on Peter Pan. Oh, and I randomly read The Burn Journals while subbing one day in an English Class and House on Mango Street another day during a conference period at Martin Middle School. It's unfathomably wonderful to be able to read strictly for pleasure now that I'm out of school. I will admit to surfing the web and reading Buffy fanfics more than I should but as the kids say "grown ups can do whatever they want!"
Alas, how I wish that were so!
Only mostly though. I have to remind myself of it, but there are a lot of good things happening right now. G and I had another dance lesson this evening, which was really fun. We've totally got the hang of our Rumba and should be totally hot when we get on the floor for our first dance as husband and wife. And we picked out and put a payment on an apartment. I'll stay with my parents once the lease on this downtown apartment is up and then move in with him in our new place after the wedding, so yay! It's super beautiful with lots of windows and cabinets and an indoor laundry room. It's actually almost the same square footage as the 2-1 that I have with Tiff and he has with Tom, but it's a 1-1 and $100 cheaper per month.
Bad things include the depressingness that is searching for a full time job, the stress of all those random things we have to buy for the wedding, and the worry over family stuff like my dad having to have surgery on his gallbladder. The job is the most stressful thing, since without a full time job I have no steady income, no way of paying for the gazillion dollars of student loans that are coming up, and no health insurance.
I've been sewing a lot lately, since I don't have money to go shopping but desperately want new clothes. I have a box of clothes that the costume shop was getting rid of last year that I picked out, and have been using them as material for new stuff. So far I made a pleated skirt out of an ugly taffeta bridesmaid dress and a nice fitted blouse out of an old-lady long sleeved shoulder-padded button up shirt.
As for my wedding dress, Tiffany is going with me to some alterations places to see what can be done. There is still enough time to, as they say on project runway, "make it work."
Also, I'm about halfway through my stack of books I got for a dollar each at half price. I read Redwall (I was upset that though it's the first in the series, it's not actually about Martin the Warrior!) and the first three Anne of Green Gables novels, which are incredibly charming. I'm about to start on Peter Pan. Oh, and I randomly read The Burn Journals while subbing one day in an English Class and House on Mango Street another day during a conference period at Martin Middle School. It's unfathomably wonderful to be able to read strictly for pleasure now that I'm out of school. I will admit to surfing the web and reading Buffy fanfics more than I should but as the kids say "grown ups can do whatever they want!"
Alas, how I wish that were so!