19+ The Apartment Project

And before I get all angsty and forget to actually talk about what the hell my Apartment Project is let me start on a sweet note...

I got my birthday wish and petted a sheep!! So when I'm looking back on this blog I will now remember my nineteenth birthday as the birthday my wish to pet a sheep was fulfilled!!

Now for the angst that comes with the age nineteen. I wasn't really excited for my birthday this year. I mean what's so special about turning nineteen? You've already been a legal adult for a year and you still got two more years till you can go off and legally drink. The way I saw it nineteen and even twenty were just pointless filler years inbetween the anticipated eighteen and the exciting twenty-one!

Well as I'm learning with most things I thought about "adulthood" I was wrong completely. Turns out nineteen is an important age. It's the age that you are right on the border of adolescence and adulthood. Sure you can walk around and say your grown technically, but you don't have much in life to show for it. Sure you can argue you're still a young teenager (nineteen), but best believe someone's going to check you if you act like one. You're fresh out of school and society now expects you to join the working world (assuming you're like me and didn't go to college). You live with your parents, but you don't want to live with your parents. You might be making money, but you're still not financially-independent and definitely not financially-wise.

I could go on but to put this simply, nineteen is like being put on a mental kid-adult seesaw and it's hell. Angst over.

Which leads to "The Apartment Project" that all started with my mother. I don't listen to my mom often, but I remember this advice she gave my sister once after Dominique got her first job. My mom told her that she should spend her paychecks on buying furniture. Everything from couches, kitchenware, etc. That way once she was ready to move-out on her own, she wouldn't have to stress on buying furniture to fill her empty home and instead could focus on the more adult-things like bills and whatnot.

The advice was for my sixteen year old sister, but little twelve-thirteen year old me was the one to actually take it and run with it.

The first thing I did when I started making money (graduation and work) was just what my mother's advice entails. I bought a bunch of furniture beginning with my room.

I started with my bed. I bought a new bed frame (a cute twin daybed), a mattress, new comforter, sheets, bed skirt, silk pillowcase, canopy, even false flowers to wrap around it and really pull together the dreamy effect.

I also have other things like purple and white curtain (see through...), a purple minifridge,  a new white desk, misc, and the newest addition a rug to finally cover my unsightly tiled floor!!

Still on my list to get is a white dresser, new sunblocking curtains, and a modest-sized tv. One small enough for a bedroom, but big enough for a living room.

After I finish up collecting the main things for my bedroom I plan to move on to bathroom furniture, then kitchen, then living room. Hopefully by the time I'm collecting living room furniture I'll have more of a direction where my life is going.

I want to record as much of this "Apartment Project" as possible so I plan to make a post again when my room is done which should be soon☺
i even have some before pictures from a long time ago for the moment which are quite shameful... I'm a hideous slob.