#functioning adults

[justnightowlthings]

5:21 a.m. A huge Monster and a spoopy movie later, my best friend and I are singing the Cantina song and Puttin' On the Ritz in regular intervals. This is what my life has been reduced to. Just night owl things.

[speaklikelions]

I blame @caloriematey. Also music plug because why not. 

[sagoods]

Adult life: examples provided by Ellen and Sarah

Ellen: christine just came into my room to tell me she's going to the drugstore and ask me if i needed anything

i'm sitting on my bed eating peanut butter out of a jar with 10 stitches in my hand

anyone can see that i clearly need SOMETHING

but i said no

because i didn't want to go

Sarah: hahaha

Ellen: adult fail

Sarah: you just got stitches

you're allowed to just sit around and eat peanut butter

i just wrote a phone number down on my leg

because i couldn't find paper that wasn't my lease agreement

Ellen: hahaahahahaha

Sarah: but the good news is my 8s look really cool

maybe people will think it was on purpose

Ellen: we're so functional

[sagoods]

Relocation: the prelude

So this is it, my last couple of weeks on the East Coast. I'm trying desperately (that is in between playing on my computer and watching tv and lollygagging (suck it internet, it is too a word)) to get stuff together to move. This has mainly involved trying to find a place to live so that I do not arrive at the beginning of July and have to sleep at Epic because I am homeless. Though that could be like an adult version of From the Mixed Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler (god that's a long title), which could be kind of exciting come to think of it. Wait, no, I need a bed. And a personal bathroom. And a social life. So, anyway, in preparation for not being homeless I have been scouring the internet for apartments in the Madison area, contacting the people who put up the craigslist ads, and then not responding back to them because, well, I'm not currently in the area so I can't come schedule an appointment to see the place. Fail. All of these places will be gone by the time I do fly up to try and rent one. Which will happen. I'm planning for next week. My mom keeps trying to convince me to rent apartments that are just out of my budget. And when I tell her that I don't have the money she just says, well just go and look at it. Which I will, and then I'm sure I'll fall in love with it, decide to rent it, and then I will be poor the rest of my life. Or homeless, because they will kick me out for not being able to pay. 

 Fortunately, if they kick me out, I may have a car in which to live. Yay! But in order to have a car, I need to buy one. That's been the other part of me preparing for the real world- trying to find a car. Which I am also not great at, but I think I'm being a tad more productive about it. So far I have test driven 6 cars, but let's be honest here, all I really want are the shiny features which will probably end up being too expensive for me. I wish I had money. I just really want a navigation system. Because I get lost. All. the. time. And I know, a garmin is like $1,000 cheaper and works just as well, but a navigation system in your car is just so cool. Plus some of these cars have rear-view* cameras that turn on when you back up. Which I find excessive but exciting. Oh well.

So far the best place was the VW dealership. If anyone is buying a car in the Winchester area, go here. My salesman was so nice and he treated me like an actual customer (which I appreciated because the Honda guy clearly didn't take me seriously and it was super annoying. Plus he was slow and we had to leave before we could drive anything. lame). He even let me and my brother test drive a car by ourselves without even taking down my license information or riding in the car with us. Which may not have been the smartest move on his part, but it was really nice and made me want to buy a car from him. Of course, I'm just browsing here and will probably end up buying a car in Wisconsin because I don't want to tack on lots of extra miles just driving it from Boston, but if I was buying a car here, I'd go with this guy. 

In the end, however, all this boils down to me making big decisions and spending lots of money, two things I don't particularly love to do. I guess I get to postpone it a little longer, but I'm worried the more I do so, the more overwhelmed I'll be when the time comes to do all of this. 

I guess for now I'll just watch some more Dr. Who. I've been powering through the first season. I think I can be caught up with the current season by the time I leave and still do other things with my life. How's that for productivity? Yeah, not great, it's fine.

*thank you Brian for catching my typo