An apology

We are getting ready for the end of a beautiful summer and the beginning of a long winter. It is only October and they are forecasting snow. I can't help but wonder why I moved to a place like this, and then I look out the second store window of Night Herring at the Old Buckhorn Bar and remember why I agreed to it. The first few weeks were extremely difficult but I am slowly beginning to feel more and more at home. I now have a favorite bar: The Ruffed Up Duck, a favorite diner: The Prairie Rose, a place to go to get cute birthday cards: Poppy, and I know where to got to get the best pizza: Crow Bar. And I have yet to kill my boyfriend, which is likely due in part to the fact that our schedules tend to conflict quite a bit. So Laramie, I owe you an apology. I came here thinking that you had nothing to offer me, only to realize that this is the first time in quite a long time that I feel at home.

Almost done

It has need a long, adventures and beautiful summer. But the leaves have started to change colors and the hail storms have started, which has given me a great deal of time to finally start cleaning up the trailer. And so that is what I have been doing for the last three days. I have done nine loads of laundry, made two trips to Walmart, two loads of dishes, washed the dog, filled five trash bags and vacuumed every room twice, but I must say the place looks good. And I am so close to being done. I have to say the bedroom looks good and I am finally willing to show off my room. Yes I made that headboard and yes, I did mount those antlers. .

And now I only have a little more to do in the living room, kitchen and laundry room, which should only take until next Tuesday

Changing

Almost 9 months ago, I left California for Colorado in search of adventure. During that time, I considered leaving at least once a week for the first three months. I was unemployed, didn't know where anything was, didn't know anyone and just felt completely alone. And then in one week, I met a boy and found a job that would do for the time being and became extremely happy. Life in Colorado was wonderful, but I began feeling restless. I have not lived in one place for longer than a year in six years, thanks to college, broken relationships and just a need for change, and that need hit again. So yesterday I put in my two week notice at work, put my room up on craigslist and began a mental note of all the things I need to sell in order to fit everything into my car to move in with my boyfriend in Laramie, WY. This is my story, a girl who spent the majority of 2006-2011 living in the major cities of California and is now moving to a state that has half the population of LA, and could not be more excited. So here we go again, finding a new job, learning my way around a new town, and trying to make new friends. Here is to a new adventure, another chapter, another challenge

Manic Monday

As usual, I am looking for ways to pass my monday. Luckily last night as I was driving home from Santa Barbara I happened to hear this on the radio and felt the need to share.

Design on a Dime

At the end of this month, I will be moving out of California to Colorado and I will have very little extra spending money. So in the next couple days I am going to have to come up with a budget to get me through the first few months possibly jobless. Also everything that is going to Colorado has to fit into my 92 Honda Accord Wagon, all the things that won't fit are gone. This means that I will not have a bed or a dresser. I have spent a great deal of the morning looking up ways to decorate the room on a tight budget and have come up with a few ideas. For instance, I like this idea of adding color to the room by using cheerful fabric as a cheap alternative to a headboard




And that is about all that I have come up with, other than painting the walls a sage green, light grey or a mauve color. Which I am sure my dad will be extremely happy about considering he is the one who will be helping me move and the one forced to help me paint

Finish!

So I am about to be 23 (and by that I mean Monday) and I feel like I have accomplished very little this year. So I have about three days left to finish everything that I have neglected! This means that I should have two new dresses, a clean room and clothes that don't smell bad by midnight on Sunday. This last weekend of my 22nd year is going to be crazy!
But back to the dresses. I have two dresses at near completion (pictures to come soon). The yellow only needs to have the hem finished and a button added and then the blue one needs a couple more rosettes and the hem as well. I don't know why I have allowed them to get this close to being done and then I just stopped. So they have both been sitting on the manikin for about a month.
And then I don't want to start out a new year with smelly clothes and a messy room. So I have to get on that...

Love

Most important thing about love is that we choose to give it, and we choose to receive it. Making it the least random act in the entire universe.