Things you can do when you live alone

I love living alone. I adore my best friend from college and we lived together for three years in the barracks. But I prefer to live alone. I like having my own space. I don’t know what I am going to do when Steve and I eventually live together. I hate feeling suffocated. But here are some awesome aspects about living along:

1.       My fridge is only stocked with things I like. And no one touches my food or drinks my beer or wine. I know exactly where things are placed and I always know there will be ice cream in my freezer.

2.       My bathroom has all my essentials laid out by the sink. It’s just me. I can do what I want and leave my stuff in strategic places. Sometimes I don’t put the toilet paper on the roll, I eventually will, but when I feel like that.

3.       I can eat the same meal for days. I eat lox, cream cheese, and sesame bagels and omelettes almost daily. Sometimes for breakfast, lunch, or dinner or even snack. No one else has to eat it, just me. Can’t judge the weird concoctions I make sometimes. Or if I eat a bowl of pasta, that’s sitting on my chest, on my couch in sweats. Can’t judge me if you don’t know it happens.

4.       The first thing I do when I get to my apartment, get out of my clothes and into the most unattractive and comfortable clothes I can find. Don’t match, no problem. Who cares if my hair is in a topknot and headband?

5.       Old country songs you used to sing with your mom when you were three? Yea, they get played in my apartment, I still sing along. My neighbors must hate me. And periodically Taylor Swift and Dixie Chicks make it into the mix.

6.       I decorate my place seasonally. Just how I like it. The décor of my whole place. All mine. No input necessary because it’s my place. I am the only one who has to live here. I don’t have to take a roommates “work of art” and display it on the wall and hate it for a year.

7.       I get to the dishes when I want. Even though I hate going to bed with dirty dishes in the sink so they end up being washed. And making my bed happens…..for the most part.

8.       The best part, when people come over, they eventually leave. Hello, peace and quiet.