But first, breakfast:
Warm and delicious Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal.
On a whim, I made my boatmeal with coconut butter as the fat source. As it turns out, coconut butter pairs really well with pumpkin. Not that I expected any different; coconut butter pairs really well with everything!
And this single-serving recipe never fails me.
I also ate the last of my samples of Vegan Greek Yogurt.
Then, after breakfast, it was time to meet a friend… and move into our new place!!
That’s my big news. (See? I told you it was something that was a huge deal to me, but that y’all probably wouldn’t care about. Your guesses about me running away with my blind date were much more interesting!)
We spent Thursday, Friday, and some of Saturday moving furniture, unpacking boxes, and organizing everything. The actual process of moving is never any fun, and I’m definitely not a stranger to it.
As a child, my parents bounced me all over the world: London, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Manila, Shanghai, and Dallas. And the bouncing didn’t stop when I got out on my own, moving first to a dorm in freshman year of college. When I transferred to SMU, a friend and I found an apartment together. Junior year, I moved to a single apartment after my friend graduated, and it was an adorable little place. But I arrived home one day to find a note taped to the door that said: “Move out, because we are demolishing your apartment to make room for the George Bush Library.”
Ugh.
So I got another apartment, with a roommate. And then, tired of all the moving, I moved back in with my parents for senior year. Living at home was awesome. It was free, familiar, and I got to see the people (and puppies!) I most love in the world. However, it’s just too easy to pretend you’re still a kid when you live at home. I was ready to get out on my own again and be independent.
Question of the Day:
If you don’t live with your parents, when did you move away from home?
Or when do you think you will leave home? Although I’ve lived on my own before, this is the first time I’ll truly be independent; paying my own rent and bills.
P.S. Can someone quickly go “like” my Facebook page?
I’d be so grateful… I know it sounds ridiculous, but I’m superstitious and am scared of 6666s! 😕
Yay for you!! moving out is so much fun (well, when you’ve got the initial unpacking out of the way),
I love paiting walls, making bits of furniture, buying cusions and kitcheny bits and colour co-ordinating things. i just like making my mark i guess- but i suppose that has a lot to do with the fact i’m an architect, so always trying to change things!!
That baked oatmeal looks amazing!!! I love pumpkin!!
I moved out when I got married… I was 20.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
I moved out when I was 18 🙂 I’m 35 now.
Woah! That is great news! Congrats on the move 🙂
CONGRATS!! That’s awesome news!! And you said it wasn’t a big deal pffsh! Moving out HUGE deal! I’m so happy for you! Please take photos of your new place!! 🙂
Hey I just moved into my first apartment with me paying all my own bills and everything too! It’s so weird, right? I’m like…what do I do with all this room?! But I don’t really have much furniture, just ma bed. 🙂 I’m pretty sure my cooking supplies to actual furniture ratio is wayyy uneven. Oh well. If I can’t sit on a comfy couch, I want to at least eat something deeeelicious (like that pumpkin baked oatmeal). And next up is punkin beer with the football game. Pumpkin overload? Nah…
Haha I hear you… I am so afraid of giving you all pumpkin overload with what I post on my blog. I’m trying to space it out, but then I just keep thinking of new pumpkin recipes, including another one to post tomorrow :-?.
I think I need to get me some pumpkin beer… and then enjoy it while sitting on a cardboard box. You’re so right: who needs furniture?!
During the next three months, there is no limit to the number of pumpkin recipes that may be put up. It’s the season!
CONGRATS KATIE!
Quick question; isn’t it illegal for them to just leave a note that says “move out we’re bull-dozing your house?” Don’t they have to serve some sort of formal notice?
I think it was legal, because they gave me like 2-months notice, which would’ve been the end of the school year, or the end of my lease. I’d fully intended to renew the lease, though :(. I loved that place!
That is exciting news! I moved out when I went to college, and I haven’t ever lived close enough to live home again. Not to mention, my bedroom is now an office…
Congratz on the new place 🙂
I went to boarding school when I was 9, and ‘moved out’ for good when I was 17.
Interesting about moving all over the world, I also had to move around a lot when I was younger, makes it a huge hassle when I am trying to explain where am from to people!
I always tell them I’m from earth! 🙂