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Excited: 
My mom and I are designing a new bedroom at home for me at Christmastime! We're going to clean my bedroom (I've got a ton of stuff on the floor that used to be under my bed), paint the walls a gorgeous warm, orangey-yellow (not TOO bright so that it's like an adolescent's room...think Tuscan villa), get new carpet installed (something neutral), and then set up all my new furniture :)
"Why?" you ask. We think it's time that I have a more sophisticated bedroom. Sure, my room's awesome and all (no modesty there, I adore the set up and the furniture), but it's a bit more teen than adult/young adult. Some of the pieces in my room could be set up in a different manner and look more adult, but a lot of the decorations are more adolescent (think about the pink boxes on my vanity that display my makeup). So basically, it's about time I have the Kate-Hudson room I've always wanted (when I think of a sophisticated room, I think of her room in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days--except the main thing I remember is the yellow paint and the giant bed).
What's awesome is that this was totally my mom's idea. She wants me to clean the room by Christmas break so that she and my dad can get new carpet in there (mine is the grossest shade of dirty-old-white and it is RIDDLED with stains, including piss...no, not my own--Jessica's. KIDDING ;) Chester's). Well, I asked if she wanted to paint the room at that time as well because it only made sense to paint it before the new carpet is in, that way, she didn't have to bother at all trying to cover the carpet. It would be a lot easier. See, my mom hates the colors in my room (and I've tired of them as well because it's so Little Mermaid and, looking back, I feel like a 12 year old (mainly because of the pink and purple on the trim)) and always said she was going to have to paint over it whenever I officially moved out--especially because she wants it to look really nice for whenever she sells it yeeeeeeeeears down the line (to me, which she isn't aware of, because I'm not letting anybody buy that house and have that backyard). So I figured she may as well have it painted now and that would work in both our favors because she wants it done and I now want to have a room with a more subtle color than turquoise, pink, and purple ;)
SO, I made the suggestion and she thought it was a great idea, as long as I wanted my room painted a different color. I wasn't expecting anything more. All of a sudden, though, she starts going on about how I should try to make my room look more sophisticated and we could put the chaise lounge in there instead of the poppison chair and we could get a new tv stand. So I go onto target.com to look and find this GORGEOUS tv stand. So then, I clicked on the whole collection (Pablo: http://www.target.com/gp/browse.html/602-6482797-4302234?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=10699261) and just went WILD. My mom took a look and she loved everything as well and started making suggestions, "you could use those as nightstands on either side of your bed, you could put drawer units next to that vanity to store your makeup in, you could get that computer desk, [etc etc]." Basically, we went from installing new carpet to an entire redesign.
Now, though, I'm getting a new full-size bed instead of putting the chaise lounge in there ;) I'm SO EXCITED. In high school, I used to talk sometimes about getting a bigger bed, but my mom said it wouldn't fit in my room (and she was right) and she thought the twin was perfectly fine for me. The twin IS perfectly fine--I fit well, it's comfortable, it's cute, whatever. But it's still a bit childish considering twins are made for CHILDREN. There's a reason a lot of people's feet hang off the end (including my own). So I made the suggestion that I get a full and she agreed! That's what's going to cinch the sophistication factor--having an adult's bed ;) lol.
So up there is the layout with everything in proportion--except I don't know how big my room actually is, so the dimensions of the room itself could be a couple feet off. Oh well!
Tonight my mom and I are going to measure the room and plot out whether or not this furniture can fit where I want it. After making that design, though, I'm pretty sure it will. If worse comes to worse, the only thing I should have to move is the drawer unit and that could fit just about anywhere.
Tres excitement!!
OH, and I'm hoping that we get the furniture sometime soon after we paint and recarpet. I figure, if I ever spend the night there between Christmas and the move-out on the 28th, I'll have my bedroom instead of the guest room. Very nice :)
And yes, I am moving out of the apartment on the 28th of May. It's definitely official. I'm guilt-ridden for all the money my mother is paying (don't even bring up the fact that now I'm allowing her to buy new furniture for when I move back--I already have plans to "repay" her in a non-literal sense) and I can't possibly afford to continue paying these utilities (and ever think about paying my mother back the $700 I owe her at the same time...so far, I haven't been able to afford to pay her back a dime). Sure, I'm living fine. I do have food and I'm not 100% broke--I haven't overdrawn in quite a while. And I do really like living "on my own" because it puts a lot of things into perspective and gives me a newfound sense of independence (and I can make my own rules), but I would like to be able to go out with my friends more often, to afford gas to visit friends at other universities, to buy clothes! I want to be able to save up my money to buy a supremely awesome digital slr, etc etc...
This will have been a really good experience, but in several months it will be time to temporarily fly back to the nest for a couple years until I can fully afford to live on my own (either with a friend, or in the sweetest studio you'd ever see).
Now, however, it's time to get back to studying math! I'm pretty confident about my test tomorrow because I'm a bit of a math whiz (those who really know me don't need my logical reason for being in a technically remedial class that I already passed with flying colors in high school as opposed to something like pre-calc explanation LOL), but I'm also worried because my professor's a bit of a uh...not-so-great teacher, so I'm worried that his test will be stupid (like with those dumb explanation and yes/no questions in the book that I NEVER answer because even though I can do the problems, I don't necessarily know WHY I have to do them that way--I HATE that shit). Let's hope I do well! ;)
Chicken pot pie tonight at the Madden house! I hope I either don't have to work or that I can be there early enough to leave by 4:30/5 so I can eat with my family as opposed to picking up the leftovers to take home to the apt.
Talk to ya laters, loves!
PS, Kristen, think about what you want to do here if you visit this weekend--like, if we get movies, what the hell do you want to get?
PSS, Jessica, you should come chill with us! We're having a "girls night" this weekend as long as Kristen has time--something along the lines of dinner/carryout, coffee, movies, and lots of junk food (I think girls nights are nights to forget what the word "healthy" means, tee hee).
PSSS, I'm assuming Kristen doesn't care if Jess is here considering we're all friends.
PSSSS, I love multiple PS's...I crack myself up :)
STUDY TIME!
My mom and I are designing a new bedroom at home for me at Christmastime! We're going to clean my bedroom (I've got a ton of stuff on the floor that used to be under my bed), paint the walls a gorgeous warm, orangey-yellow (not TOO bright so that it's like an adolescent's room...think Tuscan villa), get new carpet installed (something neutral), and then set up all my new furniture :)
"Why?" you ask. We think it's time that I have a more sophisticated bedroom. Sure, my room's awesome and all (no modesty there, I adore the set up and the furniture), but it's a bit more teen than adult/young adult. Some of the pieces in my room could be set up in a different manner and look more adult, but a lot of the decorations are more adolescent (think about the pink boxes on my vanity that display my makeup). So basically, it's about time I have the Kate-Hudson room I've always wanted (when I think of a sophisticated room, I think of her room in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days--except the main thing I remember is the yellow paint and the giant bed).
What's awesome is that this was totally my mom's idea. She wants me to clean the room by Christmas break so that she and my dad can get new carpet in there (mine is the grossest shade of dirty-old-white and it is RIDDLED with stains, including piss...no, not my own--Jessica's. KIDDING ;) Chester's). Well, I asked if she wanted to paint the room at that time as well because it only made sense to paint it before the new carpet is in, that way, she didn't have to bother at all trying to cover the carpet. It would be a lot easier. See, my mom hates the colors in my room (and I've tired of them as well because it's so Little Mermaid and, looking back, I feel like a 12 year old (mainly because of the pink and purple on the trim)) and always said she was going to have to paint over it whenever I officially moved out--especially because she wants it to look really nice for whenever she sells it yeeeeeeeeears down the line (to me, which she isn't aware of, because I'm not letting anybody buy that house and have that backyard). So I figured she may as well have it painted now and that would work in both our favors because she wants it done and I now want to have a room with a more subtle color than turquoise, pink, and purple ;)
SO, I made the suggestion and she thought it was a great idea, as long as I wanted my room painted a different color. I wasn't expecting anything more. All of a sudden, though, she starts going on about how I should try to make my room look more sophisticated and we could put the chaise lounge in there instead of the poppison chair and we could get a new tv stand. So I go onto target.com to look and find this GORGEOUS tv stand. So then, I clicked on the whole collection (Pablo: http://www.target.com/gp/browse.html/602-6482797-4302234?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=10699261) and just went WILD. My mom took a look and she loved everything as well and started making suggestions, "you could use those as nightstands on either side of your bed, you could put drawer units next to that vanity to store your makeup in, you could get that computer desk, [etc etc]." Basically, we went from installing new carpet to an entire redesign.
Now, though, I'm getting a new full-size bed instead of putting the chaise lounge in there ;) I'm SO EXCITED. In high school, I used to talk sometimes about getting a bigger bed, but my mom said it wouldn't fit in my room (and she was right) and she thought the twin was perfectly fine for me. The twin IS perfectly fine--I fit well, it's comfortable, it's cute, whatever. But it's still a bit childish considering twins are made for CHILDREN. There's a reason a lot of people's feet hang off the end (including my own). So I made the suggestion that I get a full and she agreed! That's what's going to cinch the sophistication factor--having an adult's bed ;) lol.
So up there is the layout with everything in proportion--except I don't know how big my room actually is, so the dimensions of the room itself could be a couple feet off. Oh well!
Tonight my mom and I are going to measure the room and plot out whether or not this furniture can fit where I want it. After making that design, though, I'm pretty sure it will. If worse comes to worse, the only thing I should have to move is the drawer unit and that could fit just about anywhere.
Tres excitement!!
OH, and I'm hoping that we get the furniture sometime soon after we paint and recarpet. I figure, if I ever spend the night there between Christmas and the move-out on the 28th, I'll have my bedroom instead of the guest room. Very nice :)
And yes, I am moving out of the apartment on the 28th of May. It's definitely official. I'm guilt-ridden for all the money my mother is paying (don't even bring up the fact that now I'm allowing her to buy new furniture for when I move back--I already have plans to "repay" her in a non-literal sense) and I can't possibly afford to continue paying these utilities (and ever think about paying my mother back the $700 I owe her at the same time...so far, I haven't been able to afford to pay her back a dime). Sure, I'm living fine. I do have food and I'm not 100% broke--I haven't overdrawn in quite a while. And I do really like living "on my own" because it puts a lot of things into perspective and gives me a newfound sense of independence (and I can make my own rules), but I would like to be able to go out with my friends more often, to afford gas to visit friends at other universities, to buy clothes! I want to be able to save up my money to buy a supremely awesome digital slr, etc etc...
This will have been a really good experience, but in several months it will be time to temporarily fly back to the nest for a couple years until I can fully afford to live on my own (either with a friend, or in the sweetest studio you'd ever see).
Now, however, it's time to get back to studying math! I'm pretty confident about my test tomorrow because I'm a bit of a math whiz (those who really know me don't need my logical reason for being in a technically remedial class that I already passed with flying colors in high school as opposed to something like pre-calc explanation LOL), but I'm also worried because my professor's a bit of a uh...not-so-great teacher, so I'm worried that his test will be stupid (like with those dumb explanation and yes/no questions in the book that I NEVER answer because even though I can do the problems, I don't necessarily know WHY I have to do them that way--I HATE that shit). Let's hope I do well! ;)
Chicken pot pie tonight at the Madden house! I hope I either don't have to work or that I can be there early enough to leave by 4:30/5 so I can eat with my family as opposed to picking up the leftovers to take home to the apt.
Talk to ya laters, loves!
PS, Kristen, think about what you want to do here if you visit this weekend--like, if we get movies, what the hell do you want to get?
PSS, Jessica, you should come chill with us! We're having a "girls night" this weekend as long as Kristen has time--something along the lines of dinner/carryout, coffee, movies, and lots of junk food (I think girls nights are nights to forget what the word "healthy" means, tee hee).
PSSS, I'm assuming Kristen doesn't care if Jess is here considering we're all friends.
PSSSS, I love multiple PS's...I crack myself up :)
STUDY TIME!