day three

It's the morning of the third full day (as in, day off) I've had with my new apartment.  It's beginning to feel much more like my home to me.  I love that it's one big room (despite the awful dorm flash-backs I keep getting, hah), specifically because I can have it set up like I do right now:  all the furniture against the walls with 36 square feet of painting room in the middle.  I like the feeling of being able to be all up in everything.  And apparently the only reason I took black and white photography last semester is so I had enough good pictures to build an homage to my best Boone friends, ha ha ha.  Gary, Matt, Will, Emma, Kristi, and Bed are all gracing my wall in beautiful monochromism.  

I feel like I haven't been so much as just 'decorating' my apartment as I have been building a sort of shrine to myself.  Not in an unhealthy-I-am-GOD sort of way; more like a "I want to surround myself with paraphernalia of the things and people I love" sort of way.  This apartment is a labor of love.

Today:  baking my first loaf of homemade cinnamon raison bread. I'm excited to start baking things of SUBSTANCE! instead of just little treats.  Though I also need to make some little treats for Jacob's birthday, which is today.  Cupcakes maybe?  I don't know.  I have a recipe and enough almonds to make delicious FRENCH MACARONS (ohgodyes) but I don't think I'm quite up for such a degree of experimentation when I have a due date.

Right now:  black tea and listening to the sounds of King st.