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! 😕
I don’t know what would be worse…being forced out of an apartment because they were going to build a library there, or having that library named after George Bush *shudders*.
I’m glad the news/change was a good one!
I still live with my parents and always have done. I might be 25, but sadly my mental health issues are too severe for me to live alone, and I can’t see anyone tolerating me apart from my Mum and Dad. I need someone around when I’m at manic or depressive extremes, otherwise I’d end up hurting myself somehow. I do feel like a complete failure for being unable to live alone and be independent though, and worry a lot about what will happen when my parents aren’t around. I love them so much, and they’re more like best friends than parents now.
xxx
Yeah, lol that pretty much was the most-annoying part. It was like, “He hasn’t affected my life enough?!?”
congrats; you have done a lot of moving; my mother did some moving b/c her dad was in the arm, but not that much. i might move out after i graduate 4 year college. we might even move to another state. i’m not sure if i’d move with my parents, or move out west… (currently on the east coast, hoping to end up on the west coast.
I moved out at 18 – from the San Francisco Bay Area to Nashville TN for school. What a change! Then to Atlanta, and last stop Kansas City MO. Not nearly as exciting as your childhood cities!
Congrats on the new place! I lived away from home all throughout college, then moved back home for a year, then lived on my own for a year, then moved back home for a year, and now I live with my husband! I’ve been back & forth a lot, so I’m hoping we stay in our apartment for no more/less than 2 years!
I’m hopefully moving out next year when I start college! I’m tooo excited!!!! (:
YUM 😛
Congrats on the big move!! My brother went to SMU too, and he also lived in the apartments that were demolished for the library!
Ugh :(. I am so sorry. The Binkleys were so cool!
But that’s really cool he went there… I probably passed him sometimes on my way to class! Maybe we were even in the same unit!
Moving to a new place is a great feeling-new memories to make! 🙂
Congrats on the move! That’s awesome!! Did batman move in with you?
I went to college near my parents so I stayed at home and commuted. I moved out at 23 or 24 and moved a few times within 4 years. Now I own my own house with the help of my parents and I have an awesome roommate. I love my house!
No, but I will probably bring him over once I’m more settled :).
Home should always be your safe place. In time you’ll come to appreciate your parents on a different level – and they with you as well.
Mazel Tov! Yes – part Jewish – somewhere amongst my heritage 😉
Your on your way! 🙂
I moved out at 19 when I graduated high school and went off to college. I ended up hating the school and dropped out at the end of the first semester. I moved back home while I took a semester off and that did not go well. My parents and I get along really well, but as my dad says, two adult women cannot live under the same roof. LOL. I moved back onto campus after transferring to a new university, then got my own apartment 2 semesters later. But the apartment wasn’t going to be ready until a month after the new semester started, so I lived at home once again for about 3 weeks. Now I’ve been living in my own apartment for two years and unless it’s a significant other, I’m not sure I could go back to having a roommate!