The crazy things that happen to me

So I decided that I will sporadically tell some funny stories from my life. I am 24 and have already worked multiple jobs, Including but not limited to: catering, loss prevention, door to door sales, sales for a radio station, assistant in high school special education, government contracting... I have a few interests in life, can you tell?

So because of all of these random jobs, mixed with the fact that I have lived in 4 different states (and multiple places within those states), been engaged twice, (to the same man) married that man (insert huge smile here)  moved into a new apartment (and gave it a face lift) all in the past 4 years. 

Just so you know what your dealing with ... I just naturally have weird things happen to me. Example: One time, last year sometime when I was traveling often between Massachusetts and Ohio to visit Peter) I was sitting in the airport and a young woman with a baby started talking to me... I commented on how cute her baby was next thing I knew I was holding him and she had left the airport for a smoke... when her plane started boarding I started wondering if I were in some TV show or if the mother had abandoned her child with me ... don't worry she came running back as her plane was boarding.

Stories to come!

Last but not least ...

So last but not least was the kitchen ... a great, tiny little space with surprises of it's own ... what else would you expect :)  

Oh yeah .... theeeeeres the surprise, see the cabinets next to the fridge? They don't open .... so add to the list ways to fit things in the kitchen with minimal storage space. 

One of Peters least favorite things ... the light above the sink, it isn't quite as high on his list as the plastic wall ... but it's up there :) I figured there must be a way to hide it or at least distract from it so we wouldn't have to spend money on another new fixture ... because lets be honest we would be buying one for the bathroom, no getting around that!

Our kitchen is tiny ... and we decided not to repaint for money and time reasons ... but I did decided some character and color needed to be added somehow!

Washer and dryer!!!!! Yes! We can only do half of a half of a half of a normal load haha ... but we are still very thankful thankful :) 

"Real Men Don't Buy Girls"

This is great, I am always excited when I see stars using their fame to do some good in the world. Here is a link to DNA  Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's website (and campaign) against Child Sex Slavery.

Why is this fight important? (all facts taken from DNA's website)

• 12.3 million people are enslaved today worldwide
• In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation eradicating slavery, yet more than one million people are enslaved in the U.S. today.
• Two million children are bought and sold in the global commercial sex trade
• The average age of entry into commercial sex slavery in the United States is 13 years old
• The global sex slavery market generates $32 billion in profits each year
• Every 10 minutes, a woman or child is trafficked into the United States for forced labor
• Most “johns” are quite ordinary: 70-90% are married, and most are employed with no criminal record
• 76% of transactions for sex with underage girls are conducted via the internet
• The U.S. government spends 300 times more money per year to fight drug trafficking than it does to fight human trafficking
• Approximately 55% of girls living on the streets in the United States engage in commercial sex slavery. Girls from middle and upper class neighborhoods are also at risk

HERE is a link to the Tshirts challenge on Threadless Causes website, the money from the Tshirts goes to support DNA's cause, they are very blunt and very cool!

You can also check them out on Facebook

Welcome to the smallest bedroom ... ever?



So here are the steps up into our bedroom, the apartment is essentially a studio turned 1 bedroom by means of a plastic wall (not our doing) that Peter hates with a burning passion haha! Honestly it is really nice because the plastic wall keeps the kitchen out of the bedroom :)  But again we added finding ways to hide the plastic wall to our ever growing list of to do's.



This is the view from standing next to the bedroom window you see in the above picture. Baaaasically if I had to describe it in a few words, it is a hall like space with room for a bed. Which wouldn't be the biggest deal if the picture below wasn't of the ONLY closet in the entire apartment...

Yes meet our only closet .. haha this was definitely our biggest challenge: Fit 2 people into a very small apartment with only 1 closet.



Room Number Two in our Apartment...

Oh the bathroom ... God bless the 70's ... or whatever era this room came to life in ...  we felt that although the metal towel rack and mirror on the wall were a nice look against dirty white ish walls ... we needed a paint job and some new appliances 

Oh did I mention the lovely light fixture, with no light covers .... we figured we would add a new light to the list, just for kicks and giggles of course, since this one was sooooo pretty :) 

We have this window in the shower, one side of the window shower ... the other side hallway, for modesty sake it was painted over which we appreciated ... but we decided to add some color, stay tuned!!

AH you know you have a problem when a room looks better in this stage than when there were things on the walls ... I'm just saying! 

Moving into our first fix er up

So we got married ...  And moved into our first Apartment together....
We fell in love with the area the apartment was in as well as the apartment itself ... 15 foot ceilings? Yes please! But we soon found that walls that large come with challenges of their own.  After cleaning things such as grease all over the kitchen wall, dead faceless mouse from behind the fridge, no I didn't scream when I found him ... pretty proud of myself, and the mounds of dirt behind the oven we moved on to more of the cosmetic issues. 

Issue number 1 ...
Yes you see correctly, the previous tenant seemed to have painted the walls a tan .. ish color with the exception of this one large section.  So we decided paint was a must ... but what to paint a room with such large amounts of wall space? I already had a vision for a red couch ... which made Peter very nervous, but he trusted me and off we were to the nearest Home Depot. I am not the biggest fan of boring but I also didn't want the space we were going to spend the majority of our time in to be overwhelming or become boring.... the fact that we had to climb 15 feet in the air to paint our living room walls made it a definite one time deal. 

Issue number 2
See that dark square on the wall ... its a widow to the hallway that was boarded up. It was taking away from the character of the apartment and also was just plain ugly. (also notice my red couch! I found it on craigslist and at the end of my negotiations paid $40 for it!) 

Here is the window once it was uncovered!  At this point I had also decided on a wall color, a mustard yellow color. It took a LONG time to find the perfect yellow color. There is a section painted with the paint!

Molly came to visit!

Elbie, Molly and I went to the outdoor market on my street and got breakfast! :)