A glorious castle

It all started when I found out that my tiny new house, that I had just moved into, had stairs. I ran up the stairs and opened the door to a windy deck, that stretched out as far as the eye could see.

Trees were coming up out of holes in the deck, and were decorated with ornaments and lights. But they paled in comparison to the sky. It was daytime, but stars were shooting. I looked down, and found that I was miles and miles above the ground, in the clouds!

I ran around the trees and grabbed onto the railing, looking down, and thought it was a great moment to yell, "I'm the king of the world!" even though I've never seen Titanic.

Not only was there a staircase, but there was an elevator. The floor numbers were in Roman numerals, but there were so many characters I couldn't tell what floor I was on. I jumped in and out at random stops, until night fell.

On one of the floors they were having the most wonderful feast. After dinner, everyone went outside to watch the king of the castle, riding around in a chariot through the night sky, set off fireworks.

He was laughing, and having a jolly good time. Everyone was cheering, and someone told me, "This happens every night!"

Maybe tomorrow night I'll have that dream again....

A princess of sorts

Today was the day that I spent hours and hours in the kitchen. Of my own free will. I sang and danced and rainbow bubbles frolicked around me.

At first I sang my favorite Disney numbers - mostly Sleeping Beauty, my favorite Disney princess movie. (Mulan isn't a princess, but if she were, she would be) (also, Anastasia isn't Disney or a princess, but she's pretty great, too)

I also swept the floors in preparation for my friend Mariana to come over. She brought ingredients to make cookies! =-)I genuinely enjoyed tidying up the place.

And then we made cookies! And people loved them!

After that, the Broncos game was going to be hosted at Matt's place, and so I made these brownie things, I baked peanut butter kisses in a layer of brownie under a layer of cookie! It was pretty good!

It was such a fun day!!!

Charging into worlds previously unknown

Entering into the new house has been like an entrance into a new world - a world in which I determine how my room looks, where my clothes go, what my "style" is...

At first college choices were about what was easy. Simple. Convenient. I just want to get out of people's way. I just want to get all the boxes checked off.

Suddenly, it's like I'm choosing my future. I like old things. I love being in old houses. I want to feel like I'm in an old Victorian home...

When I touch and hold old things, it's like they're saying, "we were here before you, and we will be here after you. You are not alone. You are not the first. You are safe, and what seems to you like a tragedy is but a passing thing."

It's not the permanence. It's their experience. The people that used them have already made it through youth and learned how to be adults and fight through every hard and uncomfortable thing.I almost cried when I found this. Dahhh! Waves of covetousness....

Also, in other news... I changed the blog design again. I don't know if I'll ever be happy with it, but it's fun design practice.... haha, I mean, it's no UNT class, but I still feel like I'm learning things. I figured out you could create a swatch folder. I got really excited, even though that's probably a really simple and basic thing.

Today was kind of challenging, but in the end, it turned out wonderful.

We went furniture shopping again - it's so hard for me not to say now, "I'll need that someday!" and think of the future. One day I really might need those things... but today isn't that day. No matter how good the discount sounds.

I did end up buying a gloriously cappuccino-coloured rug. It's bodacious.
Also, gold mine...... I was using a piece of packaging, trash essentially, A LID, to hold my jewelry, but today I saw a jewelry box that just turned my world upside down.

Pictures to come. Yes, I bought it.

Carole had this great coupon for Palio's, my favorite expensive pizza place. The catch was you had to spend 35 dollars to get 25 dollars taken off. So we bought 35 dollars worth and it ended up being 5 dollars for pizza that was like, nearly forty. KA-CHOW. Best pizza I've had since Gino's East in Chicago, which is my actual favorite pizza place.

Alright, it comes in levels.

Cheap pizza: Little Caesar's. Yum.
Moderately priced pizza: Crooked Crust.
Kind of expensive pizza: Palio's
OMG CAN'T FIT ANY MORE GOLD STATUES IN MY MANSION, NEED TO WASTE MONEY: Gino's East.

Those are all my favorite pizzas, for every financial state I might be in.

Alright, I gotta do some "homework," gotta research textbook prices. I'll post pictures of that awesome jewelry box soon.

Furniture Day!

TODAY Jon came over and showed me "Whisper of the Heart" which was a very endearing film - might be in my top 15 of movies. So cute. Studio Ghibli is incredible.

He was kind enough to take me to Kroger, and I got some great food. I decided that I was going to rise above just buying veggie burgers and heating them up. I got ham and cheese and pesto, the perfect ingredients for the perfect filling sandwich.
As you can see, I also picked the healthiest breakfast cereal for those mornings I don't have time to scramble eggs.

Food situation: A+

Right before me and Grace and Carole left to buy furniture, I strangely found my scooter keys.

Anyway, at Ruth's room, I found these things:

a lovely little cup for a quarter! I've been using it as my one and only water drinking mug!
A kleenex holder that went with my bathroom set! And it looks great with my crackle dresser!!!
Lastly, a realistic rose jar, with glass water! They look beautiful! I didn't know they were fake until I picked it up and the water didn't move!

So I felt that Ruth's room was a success.

Then we traversed to this other place that was having a crazy sale, and I found the loveliest set of dishes I've ever seen in my life. I will hold out to the end and say that it is the greatest dishset that has ever been made. I love it.

So, I got them. Now, no matter where I live, I can say that I have the most wonderful dishset of them all. All I lack is silverware. But that's a long ways a way. I just had to snatch these up now, because no matter what I found in the future, I will always look back and say, "But they will never amount to THAT set I saw years ago..."

So my dresser looks like this now:I like it.
I didn't have anything to put in this frame, but it was such a cute frame, I just drew my friend Jon ... lol
yep
We've done the microwave like this...I like it.
Josh helped us put this up in the bathroom:

Then I went to a party, and there were cool performances. The coolest one was "pictureless picture captions" that Nathan read and it was awesome.

Me and Jon and Ryan all had an awesome jazz jam together, me singing, Jon playing guitar, and Ryan playing saxophone.


All in all, a great day.

The new things

Yesterday me and all the other ex-ladies of Crow went out to eat at this cute cafe - a brunch place. I can't remember the name....

We also are nearly finished moving - the house is empty except for the garage.

Currently me, Jon and Matt are all at Boomer Jacks watching the Broncos - well, they just lost. Might stay for the cowboyzzz

but I really wanna go home and finish setting up the new house.

It's like Animal Crossing in real life!!!