I love my new apartment! I was in a two bedroom apartment in a college town with four other people. Talk about crowded. I was sharing the living room with a druggie with an anger management problem and two cats that I was allergic to. Not exactly an ideal situation. Now, though, I’m in a gorgeous new studio apartment in a nearby city. It’s a bit of a drive from all of my friends and old hangouts, but totally worth it.
Chainlink's Life List
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1. be first in line to buy Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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2. Make a list of 43 things I know very little about, & then learn at least 3 things about each of them
127 people -
3. date a boy with an accent
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4. get fitted for a bra
1 cheer34 people -
5. get high school musical on dvd
1 person -
6. read all of neil gaiman's books
3 people -
7. Spend a weekend at a spa
75 people -
8. Submit a postcard to Post Secret
2 people -
9. pull off an april fools prank
5 people -
10. plan my wedding...
283 people -
11. be loved unconditionally
1 cheer120 people -
12. learn how to tie the stem of a maraschino cherry with my tongue
1 cheer700 people -
13. walk a labyrinth
1 cheer73 people -
14. Leave flowers on the grave of someone I don't know
1 cheer154 people -
15. celebrate Towel Day
2 cheers40 people -
16. learn to make sushi
721 people -
17. grow an herb garden
1 cheer668 people -
18. design a tarot deck
2 cheers58 people -
19. Record an audiobook.
1 cheer12 people -
20. go to a film festival
116 people -
21. Get an aquarium
1 cheer27 people -
22. Take part in a scavenger hunt
5 people -
23. visit new york
1,362 people -
24. See a Broadway musical, on Broadway
144 people -
25. learn to swing dance
1,079 people -
26. get my driver's license
5,037 people -
27. change my name
493 people -
28. act in an indy movie
4 people -
29. find out what my blood type is
1,317 people -
30. scream at the top of my lungs
100 people -
31. be famous
2,310 people -
32. Pick a theme song for myself
405 people -
33. get into comic books
9 people -
34. watch House MD
1,635 people -
35. Rip my entire CD collection
147 people -
36. drink every kind of bottled water at the store and decide which one is best
15 people -
37. walk across the brooklyn bridge
80 people -
38. get a famous autograph
10 people -
39. get my fortune told
84 people -
40. get my heart broken
19 people -
41. be happy
21,830 people
It’s alright. Doesn’t quite live up to all the hype, in my opinion. I’ll use it for the better security and the cute logo, but I won’t be one of those rabid “OMG Firefox is teh awesome!” fans.
About a year and a half ago, I was taking a shower before school. It was a during a pretty bad rainstorm, but I’d never believed in the whole “You’ll get electricuted if you do ANYTHING during a rainstorm!” myth. Needless to say, I was electricuted. Not badly, just enough to send me stinging and sore and very, very surprised. I jumped out of the shower promptly and wrapped a towel around me.
At that moment, the smoke detectors went off. I ran outside, still in my towel, calling 911 on my cell phone. The firefighters arrived shortly after and checked out the house. Finally, after an extensive forty-five investigation for fires (during which I was shaking in my little bathtowel in the January air), a stoic-faced firefighter came out and approached me.
“Sorry to tell you this, but it looks like you got all dressed up for nothing,” he told me. “Everything’s fine in there.” He must have noticed that I was embarrassed for having stood scantily clad in my cul-de-sac for so long, so in what I’m sure he hoped was a reassuring tone, he told me, “Well look on the bright side! You look mighty nice in that towel!”
It didn’t make me feel better. At all.
