2008

After a sad week in Georgia, I'm back home at the bungalow. While I was gone, all the leaves outside magically disappeared, but unfortunately, not all of my magazines have arrived that should have. I changed my subscription address several weeks ago, and I'm worried that they aren't sending me the Jan/Feb issues.

I'm going to spend the next couple of days before classes start decompressing and maybe, just maybe, finishing some things around the house that I've been putting off for far too long. Between the stress of grad school applications and my grandmother's death, I really need a break even though I finally have internet access again and am able to blog. Ironically, the longer I'm away, the less motivation I have to blog anymore. Catching up on all the other blogs I read makes me feel quite inadequate both in the quantity and quality of my posts. I'm not sure what 2008 will bring for this blog. Hopefully it's just the grad school- and death-related stress that's getting me down; it could blow over and I'll find more things to say and post. But right now, I feel like there's always something preventing me from blogging about what I want to blog about. For example, Dan and I got a few art prints to frame, and half of them are being framed right now. I wanted to take pictures of them, but we had to leave to go to Georgia before they were ready, so framed or not, they're all in New Jersey.

The point of this blog was to post about the house I live in now, the bungalow, the prototype with hand-me-down couches before Dan and I move in together when I graduate. Yet it seems that all I have to blog about is things I don't have, just admire; things I think someone should have. I'm only 21, a college student. With my age, schedule, and budget taken into consideration, I probably shouldn't be expected to have a perfectly executed house to blog about. However, I have many things which I love and make everyday life happier for me. I think over the next few days, I'll blog about some of my favorite possessions which make the bungalow my home.