I've technically lived in Seattle for over a year, but I had a roommate for the first 7 months.
This may not seem like a big deal to many of you, but let me just explain why I think it's such a big feat:
I moved 2,000 miles away from home--the farthest I've ever been away that wasn't for a sleep-away
camp or vacation.
I went from living in a town of 20,000 people to a city of 620,000 people.
I went from seeing trees and houses everyday to seeing incredibly tall glass buildings and sidewalks.
I stopped driving a car and began using public transit. (Which is also a big deal in itself considering we didn't have any kind of bus system back home....I mean there is the Mata bus in Memphis but you don't ride that unless you have a death wish. Seriously.)
I went from living with my parents, to living with a roommate, to living all by myself.
Which, consequently means I'm a grown up, y'all!
So now that almost a year has passed, what have I learned?
I've learned so much by living on my own--but here are my top 5.
The Top 5 Things I've Learned Living on My Own:
1. I am in charge of making sure I eat.
This may sound silly to you, but I am the type of person who completely submerges myself in whatever it is I'm working on at the time. Which is usually editing pictures or doing homework. but unless I get up to stretch, get a phone call or have to use the ladies' room, I will forget that I haven't eaten anything all day long. Now, my mother does call me from time to time and ask if I've eaten all day...because she knows how I am. BUT--I still have to make sure I put something in my mouth before I leave my apartment or I don't usually eat until 5:00 at night or later. I know, I know.
2. I'm an adult, therefore I make my own decisions.
Most of the time they are good decisions! But when I make the conscious decision to stay up editing the last 7 photos of the set I'm working on and it's already 1 in the morning...that makes for a bad decision later. Or if I decide to put my homework off until the last minute because I know I work better under pressure--that tends to not always be the best decision either.
This also means that sometimes I decide to eat candy for dinner instead of a healthy nutritional dinner...whoops! ;)
3. No pants are the best pants.
I say it alllll the time--but it's true! I hate wearing pants. So as soon as I walk my happy butt into my apartment I take them off. This is a good and a bad thing--good because I live by myself--bad because that means that I don't usually want to put them back on to do other things. Things like checking the mail, going to grab some milk, answering the door....you get the picture.
4. I enjoy my apartment much more when it's clean and organized.
Until recently my apartment seemed to always be a mess no matter what. But then I bought a bigger desk, two shelving units, some storage boxes and some wire baskets and went to town. My apartment stays clean almost every day because of this, (I say almost because of laundry day, we'll get to that next) because everything has a place! Just the way it should be. :)
This is just a small example of my organizational tendencies, it will take an entire post to show you everything!
5. I shouldn't do all of my laundry at once.
I have this really terrible habit of waiting until I have absolutely nothing left in my closet to wear, and then washing all of my clothes in one day. This is a very bad idea because then I have TONS of laundry to fold and I usually do my laundry in between class or homework and then I don't fold it, it just sits on my dining table or my trunk for a day or two until I'm sick of having to stick things in the dryer to get the wrinkles out of them.
Do any of you live on your own? What are some of the biggest lessons you've learned? I'd love to hear from you!
xoxo
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