My work is now 3.3 miles from my new home. Yay!

My room is slowly coming together. Boxes of books and kitchen supplies are still floating around. This is probably the biggest room I have ever inhabited. My furniture is dwarfed in its bright cheery walls with two sides of windows. The brightness and sunshine feel good.

This morning Dave, Gus, Rocky, and I took a 3.5 round trip walk to Walmart and back. My sedentary lifestyle is showing... I can feel it in my feet, legs, and back. How sad! But we are going to get in shape! I have printed out a "Couch to 5k" running and walking program for us.

My two roommates and I are spending the warm, sunny afternoon tinkering around the house and napping.

Perfect.

Tonight Dave & I are getting dressed up to go out to eat. It's our 6 month-iversary!

I move into a new apartment today!

Can you believe I ended up living at home for a little over a year? Crazy how time passes. Living at home is a good life. Little responsibility, $FREE$, come & go.

Unfortunately even though I live with my family I spend literally NO time with them. I feel bad about this. Somehow my relationships with them have gone down since living with them--and not from arguments or disagreements--simply I all did was sleep there. The problem with living so far away from where I work, church and school is that I leave at 7am and didn't return till 11pm. No familial contact. I hope that in moving out, I can go over on Saturday mornings or an evening for dinner. Call to chat. etc.

I'm looking forward to living centrally to my life to have a base of operations and home to relax, cook, be organized. Living further away has added another pinch of craziness and disorganization and stress.

Still trying to figure out a Sabbath. *shaking head* There is so much I have to do that I already don't have time to do!! Seek ye first... yeah... I hope my new living arrangement can add some more peace, free time, and organization to my life.

I'll keep you posted!

Things I am looking forward to:
* cooking (I've been purusing allrecipes.com, have already made a grocery list, and am looking forward to planning menus for optimal health and budgeting!)
* entertaining
* living in community with some cool girls
*jogging (Dave & I are goign to start a "Couch to 5k" running & walking program next week)
* carving out a little bit of peace and quiet every day - to journal, pray, read the Word
* walking/riding my bike to grocery store, community group, Dave's, work, church
* having my own space to decorate, clean, BE
* getting all of my stuff organized, giving away/freecycling anything I don't use or wear!