Moving In

Reading through my old journal entries and my old blog posts, it's amazing to me that I am actually in my apartment in Colorado. Rachel and I had been counting down since we had 135 days to go. It's a wonderful feeling to be done with that. Not to mention, the apartment we chose is perfection. 2 bed, 2 bath, a living room and a kitchen with a long bar/island thing, a laundry closet, and a patio that faces the mountains. 

DAY ONE

Rach has lived in an apartment before so there was already a ton of furniture when I got here. So my family helped me unload a million boxes of crap, and then we went out to dinner at a restaurant called BJ's Bar and Grill (or something). Mom told the waitress they had just helped me move here, and she sounded all surprised when we said it wasn't the family that had moved, that it was just me. And then she welcomed me. (: 

THIS PLACE IS PERFECT.

DAY TWO
Yesterday we went to Walmart and bought some stuff, like groceries and toilet paper, and went out to lunch at a cute little sandwich place... that messed up almost all of our orders, hah. When we came back, Rachel was here and I finally got to see her, after ~80 days. It was glorious. (: 

However, Mom and Dad decided to "get out of our way" way earlier than we had planned, so nobody even got to go into Boulder or see Pearl Street or appreciate the wonderfulness of this place. :/ But they did have a long drive back. So they left, and we immediately went back to Walmart so we could buy the things together that we'd waited for each other to buy, like a silverware tray (it was just being thrown into the drawer (by me)) and tupperware. We also bought some more groceries! 

Here's the thing about groceries. It's been such a long time since I have actually sat down regularly to eat a meal that I cannot even remember what meals might be good to prepare for. And I am really trying to stay away from frozen/boxed dinners. We did pick some up because I was about to have a break down in the meat section of Walmart, but it's hard! I couldn't think up meals like that on the spot. And everything I looked at just seemed to be processed or so over-the-top with sodium that I got so discouraged. My goal is to stay away from frozen, boxed, processed, dehydrogenated foods, but you only have so many options for your first meals! It's harder than it looks. 




When we got back from Walmart, we set to work putting things where they belong!!! We want to get it all done so there is no chance of random crap lingering in the apartment. Everything has it's place. Except there is not enough room in our kitchen, lol.

this isn't the actual curtain, but we figured... we don't need one yet. hah.

We put together a bookshelf Ma and Daddy bought me and omg it was so complicated, lol. But it's gorgeous and perfect now. Our apartment is so wonderful. We put away lots of clothes (Well, Rachel did... she has SIGNIFICANTLY more clothes than I do.) and books and movies and dishes... I apparently think it's necessary to buy every mug there could ever be, with no thought towards storage space. And our kitchen is kind of lacking that. Well, that's not true. It just doesn't really have many drawers to put stuff in, so there are lots of big cabinets, but I'm kind of a drawer person. So... whatever. It still all fits, it's just finding a place for it. But Rach is such an organizer that it's so wonderful, and we're almost done. We have to take out a TON of recycling (single stream recycling in this complex :D) and I have a bag of cooking/baking supplies to put away and then a box of clothes/shoes, and after that we are tackling the second bedroom. We have to go through some boxes and decorate, and then organize the closet for random storage. (:

We also need to pick out paint colors for the apartment (management paints for us once we pick the colors we would like), get jobs, find cheap patio furniture, find either barstools for our counter or a little kitchen table set, and I need a bus pass!!!

I'm going to go unpack, (: