Last night after dinner, my boyfriend and I were seated on the couch staring at Netflix, trying to decide what to watch. This is a nightly ritual. No, it's not very enriching. But after four months of living together, there are some things that have started to settle into a routine that feels normal for us, which is nice ( Read more... )

So, I just moved back into my folks' house. Not really a huge surprise, because I was living in university housing, but the idea of having to be back for the summer (and potentially... indefinitely, since I'll only be taking my senior thesis in the fall) is not exactly appealing. I have been throwing myself my own drawn-out pity party for the ( Read more... )

So, this past week and a half I was house-sitting for my grandparents, which I mentioned already. But this weekend I was also house-sitting for a client on the other side of town. It was a really hectic weekend of running back and forth between the two places. The two houses are about a forty-minute drive apart, which was a significant chunk out ( Read more... )

I'm pet-/house-sitting this week for my grandparents. They have a nice house that sits alone on the top of a hill. It's easy, sitting in the sunroom at breakfast, to imagine that I'm in the middle of nowhere in a peaceful cabin by myself. It's also easy, tucked under my covers at midnight, to imagine that whatever erroneous sound I'm hearing is ( Read more... )