just try and live life

sometimes you really do hafta try things before you judge it..

when my parents first informed me that i was not allowed to move back home for my coop term, i was absolutely devasted..i was on the verge of tears as i was talking to my roomies..it was shocking..but first, lets rewind a bit..

so i got the job at SC Johnson and was absolutely thrilled..thinking that since it was just in brantford, i could move back home and commute to work..then came the shock of my life when my parents insisted that i move there..their thoughts were something along the lines of "it's time for you to grow up a little"..they wanted me to experience life..a life i hadn't expected to live until i finished school with a degree in my pocket..

my first thoughts were "omg, i can't do this..it's not like living at school..at school i had friends and roommates..i had things to do..i had places to go..how am i gonna supposed to move to a brand new city and survive on my own?..i don't know anyone..i am gonna get lost..ahhhhhh" i can't even begin to describe how bad i did not want to move..i wanted more than anything in the world for time just to sit still..i couldn't believe my parents were doing this to me..and hm, i guess i sound like a spoiled child..maybe i was..

but it's been 2 months into the term and my thoughts have taken a huge change..but for the better..the experience i have had has been absolutely incredible..i actually have a full time job that i love so it's as if i am actually done school and working..i drive my own vehicle and pay for the gas..i come home to my own place..a place with my own living room, my own bathroom, my own bedroom..it's actually mine and i am paying my own rent as if i am all grown up..i've made new friends and a brand new social circle i could never imagine having at this age..the word "independent" has a totally new meaning to me..

now the thing i'm dreading is giving this life up and going back to the life of a student..sigh..i don't know what to say..sometimes parents do know what's right for you..even when you believe with all your heart that they are wrong..

let's just say the "lesson" i've learned from all this is that you really just gotta live..live and try..try a bit of everything and you'll learn a bit of everything..but you won't know unless you try..

cooking and laundry part II

it's been just over a month and i'm sorta getting the hang of things..although here's a couple of funny stories

yesterday i was boiling some water in my kettle for some tea and i had some extra water left over..so i pull out a glass that was in my fridge and as i pour the hot water into the cold glass, it SHATTERED..right in my hands..it scared the crap out of me..i was like "what the hell just happened?"

the first time i did laundry, everything went fine..i didn't shrink anything nor did colours mix..however the second time i did laundry was another story..i was washing my whites and i had this baby blue towel that i figured could be washed with the whites..well, unfortunately i was wrong..some of my white towels came out with fuzzy blotches of blue..

i think i'm just cursed..