A place to call my very own...I mean home!!

As of July 1st, I no longer have to deal with a roommate...and I absolutely love it!!

Since I'm graduating in December and my lease at the apartment I was living at (which was a dump) is up August 1st, I went ahead and got a 6 month lease elsewhere. And since it's too hard to find someone who only wants to be your roommate for 6 months, I decided to not have one! Seriously, one of the best decisions I've ever made!!

I absolutely love:

-coming home to a clean house
-having complete control of the thermostat
-not having to coordinate my showers around someone else's schedule
-coming home to a house that doesn't smell like smoke
-living in a place where the walls aren't paper thin
-having kind and friendly neighbors (they're totally awesome!!)
-knowing all of this is mine (ok, so maybe I have a bit of a sharing problem...)

Yeah...it's awesome!

I have yet to hear any of my neighbors except for when they sit out on their patios and chat in the evenings after dinner (which I don't mind that at all!). That's a complete 180 from my old place. I didn't sleep at my old place because they let their little baby cry all night long. I'd wake up in the early hours of the morning to them yelling profanity at each other and then at their little children. If they engaged in pillow talk in the evenings, I could hear it as if I was in the bed with them (want to talk about awkward). And let's not talk about when the newlyweds lived next door. My only comment on that one is that I completely rearranged my room, and it didn't help, at all. Now that's awkward!

I still have lots of decorating to do. Yet another thing I love! I can decorate this place any way I want to and no one can tell me otherwise!! :)

But, since I have a couple of months off before my last semester of college starts (so weird and crazy to think I'm almost finished with college already!), I've got some time on my hands. Love it!!

So...now, I must decide what I want to do in my own apartment... Shower now and then go to bed, or go to bed and shower in the morning... Man! I love being able to have a choice!! :)

I'll close with a cool picture I took of the cathedral in Granada, Spain. Just as a side note, absolutely zero photo retouching was done on this photo. Enjoy!