Things I have learned from living on my own

Hey all you l33t people out there in internet land. How's it going?

That's super-fantastic. Anyways, since it seems to be the trend at them moment I'm going to write some things I miss/have learned about living on my own. By living on my own I mean without my parents.

1. Living is expensive. I mean I knew this before I moved out. Everything costs money, gas, food, movies, everything you need to survive. I am lucky that first, I have a job that pays me well and that I have learned some great budgeting and forecasting skills from my accounting classses and Crown. My Dad taught me some stuff too. So while its expensive to do the things I want to, I can budget my money and plan for expenses.

2. If left to myself, I would probably just play games all day. Well, maybe not all day, but a lot. There are just so many cool games out there. I mean, I would probably get bored eventually, but that would take a while. WoW is just so addictive!

3. I don't sleep enough. Not much else you can say about this. I like to be awake and interacting with people. Like last night. I was tired and wanted to go to bed at like 10:30. But instead a had a good convo withe some good friends. So it was worth it, but I really should sleep more.

4. Making food is more work than buying prepackaged meals, but is often very worth it.

5. Your roomates are often very interested in helping you eat your food, but not interested in cleaning the bathroom.

6. New carpet gets lots of fuzzies that stick to everything. You have to vacuum a lot.

7 . At night, I like to sleep cold, but my house is already cold, and I have the fan on. So its really cold. So I put a blanket on, but its too hot, so I wake up all sweaty and gross. Where is my 14 x 12 room when I need it.

8. Playing guitar really loud in the theater when no one is home is way more fun than having to turn it down b/c your dad can't hear the TV.

9. Having a movie theater in my house makes me cooler than you. As if I needed that.

10. Non-Wow-ites do not and cannot understand why you play WoW. Don't bother explaining it to them. Just find some other game that they can get addicted to and play for 9 and a half hours last saturday (Guitar Hero and Brent for example)

11. Carpooling is great, except when the person you normally carpool with is in Philly with his wife. Then it sucks b/c you have to drive to work by yourself.

12. Being frugal is better than being cheap. Both frugal and cheap people live at my house. (The question is, which one am I?)

13. If it weren't for the Internet, life would not exist. In fact I believe that the internet is actually what created life in the first place. God used the internet to put the spark of life in Adam. The internet then went into hiding for about 6000 years, thinking its purpose was complete, only to be dug up by Al Gore and exploited for awesomeness.