home sweet condo

hello everyone!

i feel like every time i blog i end up apologizing for not blogging; and today is no different - it has really been a crazy time for me!

since we last chatted, i finally checked into my hotel room in columbia and had a fabulous weekend celebrating the love shared between my good friends deanna & mike. it's officially, they can now be referred to as mr. and mrs. ford! it was a fabulous weekend.

during said weekend the chef and i also broke up (not so fabulous). it was completely mutual & natural. no one said anything horrible and we left 'hugging it out' as friends. hopefully when i make the journey down to columbia before mr. and mrs. ford move down to georgia and see my other good girlfriends down south we can meet up for a drink and catch up on life. we had a pretty wonderful three years (three and a half, actually, from the first date) together and i am so thankful and blessed that he was such a large part of my life.

let's not dwell on the downer of my life at the moment. since coming home from the weekend of love, i spent the two weeks in between preparing for the big move. (read: thursday night before the move i put everything i could fit into tubs and called it good.) but mentally, i was preparing everyday! i also have been working my butt off on work. but you already knew that!

i was going to post pictures of my condo on here, but i've decided to wait until my couch gets delivered on tuesday so things feel a little less empty. (i have posted some pictures on my facebook account if anyone wants to check those out!) let's just say that i love it! i owe a HUGE thank you to the gparents, tom, ben and my mom for helping me these past couple of days. i feel like i am settling in and i am so excited for kaeli to move in on friday!

because i haven't set up cable yet, i've been enjoying online tv & redbox movies. i think i could be going a little stircrazy since there is NO one here to talk to, but mostly i am relishing in the fact that i bought my own house and i can do whatever i want in it and to it! i keep find myself thinking of paint colors, looking at furniture and dreaming of the end result (read: in five years) when i can afford it all. i am so happy that i made the decision to buy and feel completely at home already!

my neighborhood is pretty cute. everyone has a dog! (i definitely have dog envy and have started research on dogs that weigh 55 pounds or under.) and there are a few small kids that i see running around in the patch of grass between the buildings (i definitely don't have kid envy). north liberty is definitely a growing, young community and i am excited to explore it this summer. hopefully i can meet some fun people to start having dinner parties with!

tonight my game plan is to get some work done, watch everybody (or thing) is fine with robert dinero and drew barrymore, paint my nails, and make a to-do list for tomorrow. sounds pretty fun, huh? i also want to take another looksy through the jcrew catalog before i recycle it tomorrow. everything in there is so pretty. one day i hope i can afford a $50 tee-shirt. just kidding. kind of.

oh! i forgot that my first non-family visitors came to the house today! steph & sean (soon to be mr. and mrs. wolterman) stopped through ic and came to my house! it was so fun to have visitors, but hopefully next time things will be a little more...put together. after their tour we went to dinner at the airliner - delish. it made me miss undergrad, mostly. everyone looked so stressed out about finals!

until tuesday...

monica faye