On January 1, 2010 I moved into a two bedroom, two bath condo with my friend's older sister. Living on my own has been interesting, to say the least. My roommate seems to believe me naive and inexperienced and...well i think she thinks I don't know anything because this is my first time living alone. I've been trying to make her understand that even though I lived with my parents untill I was 22 and didn't go away to college, I still bought my own groceries, did my own laundry, had my own cell phone bill and car payment, and am not a little kid. We get along but we are definitely two very different personalities. I though I was messy until I met her. She's a bit lazy and a slob. I see my family usually every weekend, either for breakfast, dinner, or I just go over there to hang out.
My "best friend" and I have had a major falling out and I don't think there will be any fixing of the relationship. I am done with her inability to treat me with the respect and admiration I as her supposed best friend deserve. For a girl she has very boy-like emotions and she gives a lot of excuses. I'm just done with all of it and while it makes me sad and I do think about it often, it no longer hurts. She is pregnant and due in a little over a month but I know I won't be told when she has the baby, a baby she is letting her husband completely control aspects of. He is a very controlling man and I honestly don't see this ending well.
It's May now and the school year is almost over. It has been a rough one. My co-worker Heather and I are friends again, thank goodness, mostly thanks to her little one on the way Miss Shyloh Ann, due in September. However another co-worker, Shonda, in my opinion is bitter that someone 10 years younger than her is her boss. She is mad she was moved from the school she worked at for 9 years and is not a director and because of this she is treating my school like its unworthy of her. She calls out sick, oversleeps, is late, or leaves early nearly every single week. Our bosses are aware of this and have threatened to take her morning shift away but so far they have done nothing more than threaten. I just keep telling myself it's May, the last day of school is June 17, it will all be over soon.
Other than that I really do love my job. I wish we had more kids, we only have 13 total and we should have 25, but at least they didn't shut us down. I spent the last two months earning extra hours by making the lesson plans for the summer camps we're having this summer. I'm hoping because I did this they will place me at the 3.5-5 year old camp again this summer. I am really hoping they do.
I think that's about all that's been going on. I've been testing the waters with cooking, trying to prove to everyone who said I would starve when I moved out that they were wrong. I've tackled homemade pancakes, frozen tilapia with mashed potatoes, green beans, and corn, fried potatoes, chicken, and cheese, and pigs in a blanket. Pretty good in my opinion.
This week I am going to tackle cupcake decorating. I've been looking at some really great cupcake pictures online and have been dying to make some great cupcakes. So Thursday for my roommate's birthday, I am attempting to make her favorite vanilla cake and strawberry frosting cupcakes and decorate them nicely with candles and all. It's mostly a trial run for some cupcakes I plan on making her sister, one of my closest friends and my oldest friend's (we've been friends for 13 years!) birthday at the end of May. We'll see how it goes!
And now, two pictures of my lovely but mismatched apartment!
Our living room, with our wonderful gas fireplace.
Our screened in porch. It slightly sucks that our place faces the next building yet it makes it fun to people watch =) The porch is currently covered in pollen and has a purple flowered plants sitting in the sun.
