Hello one and all! So I don't have pictures of my new home yet, but I will soon I promise. I have been spending my days flocking to campus because Internet and air conditioning are very attractive luxuries that my house lacks. I've been visiting friends and watching the student leadership return to campus from the sidelines and have a joyful old time! When not doing that, I've been bonding with my new housemates (LOVE them, it's going to be a fantastic year!) and sprucing up the old place. I feel like such a grown-up! We've basically lived at the thrift stores in town and been taking daily adventures around the greater Spokane area to find garage sales. The other day, one of my housemates and I hit 6 garage sales within an hour and found tons of nifty stuff that just needed a LOT of TLC... and some antibacterial cleansing... I worked for a good two hours on this toaster from the 1970's or earlier that has since declared mutiny against me, but at least it doesn't smell like burning gasoline anymore! And more importantly I made the cheap chrome paneling shine like a new penny :) Anyway, we've been fixing up our bargain buys and have invested a whopping $30 bucks into this place (second mortgage here we come!) but I weeded yesterday, sanded and revarnished our dining room table (a freeby because it had broken in half, so we also filled the crack and bracketed it too...) planted a garden, fixed my dubious toaster for the second time and a hodge-podge of other stuff. The great thing is my roommates really want this to be a home and so we're all pulling our weight. The last two roommates are slated to come within the week, so the family will be complete!
The other day, I went grocery shopping for myself for the first time. And I don't mean picking up a few things here and there for the family, or getting snacks or even meals to pack into the dorm room. I mean real food, food I have to make on a daily basis. You'll be happy to know I haven't made myself sick yet, but give it time :) the learning curve doesn't just apply to book learnin'.
I will most definitely post pictures within the next week or so to show you what the house looks like. It's going to be a very bohemian, eclectic style because of two reasons: 1) All my housemates like the look, and 2) the price is right. I have some before pictures, and I'll put those nasty reminders up too :) Anyway, I think the girl working in this coffee shop has started placing bets about whether or not I'll ask to sleep here so I'm going to get out of her hair. I love you all dearly, and I hope to hear from you soon!
With love,
Chels
P.S. Don't worry, I haven't been working so hard that I'm not having fun... midnight sprinkler runs on campus have already happened, AND I've already been pegged in the head with a frisbee inside the new dorm :)
Monday, August 31, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
La Starta of the Bloga
Welcome to my concession! I have finally given in, everyone... STOP! Blog time :) Everyone seems to agree, myself included, that this may be the easier way in which to keep in touch and relate my debauchery to you all. This way, I won't have to write a small novel; instead I can just post the fun as it comes! And it gives a new field of competition for my family and their "I'm going to out-comment you" mentality :) So welcome! For a little bit this blog may be a work in progress, meaning I might change the layout and such, but I will try my best to keep it updated, I really will. Each year has been a huge change, so we'll have to see how this year goes, but I anticipate a much more relaxed, free atmosphere. Don't worry, I'll still keep myself fairly busy, but just in different ways. And I'll be taking you guys along with me :)
I moved into my new (well, not so new... the geometric-design shudders give it away) duplex a few days ago and already love it. My housemates are great, the other two who are already here, and I think it's going to be a wonderful change of pace and push into adulthood. My papa left me today (TO STARVE!!! Just kidding, we ate enough the last three days to keep me full until Thanksgiving... I'm assuming that was intentional on his part...) and I headed over to campus to visit some friends. Tons of people are coming back today for RA training (haha SUCKERS!) and for various other reasons so I snuck into the cafeteria (Saga, if you may recall) and made the rounds. I saw a few old team members from my leadership team and started feeling both nostalgic and sad. Part of me would really have liked to be an RA again, but I'm ready for a new adventure and feel as though I took as much from the experience last year as I could have. This year will be completely different and yet I anticipate that it'll be completely great! With living off-campus, tour-guiding, classes, being a peer advisor for about 20 freshman, choir, possibly auditioning for the school play (SO excited!), my refugee family and volunteering with the Bonner Leader program, it's shaping up to be a pretty dang good year :)
When papa and I arrived in Spokane after much gluteal distress, we took a tour around campus and went to the beautiful, newly-seeded lawn that was once Keola. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, my much beloved, asbestos-filled home last year has been destroyed. It was really kind of sad, I'm going to miss everything about it. Well, not everything, but the people, the memories and what it represented. But on the flip side, it's kind of cool because I can tell people I'm giving tours to that I once lived in a dorm that doesn't even exist anymore! How about them apples?!
So for the next week and a half (I got here pretty early) I will be getting things put together in my house, bonding with my roommates, and creeping on RA training and Traditiation meetings. I'm in the Library right now for two reasons: 1) It's air conditioned and my house is not, 2) it has Internet and my house does not. We're going to be fixing this very soon, we are looking between Comcast and someone named "my friend knows this guy who..." and we'll probably be going with the latter :) Spokane is beautiful and I wish you were all here, but I'll try and make it feel like you are, okay?! My email at chelsea.casebolt@gmail.com is still fully functioning and I would love to still hear from you all, so don't think that door has closed just because this one has opened up. Also, I've been asked to provide my address here at school, so here it is!
9803 N Ivanhoe Rd
Spokane, WA 99218
Tada! That's it for the first post. Wow, practically painless! So comment away if you see fit, and I will talk to you all soon.
With love,
Chels
I moved into my new (well, not so new... the geometric-design shudders give it away) duplex a few days ago and already love it. My housemates are great, the other two who are already here, and I think it's going to be a wonderful change of pace and push into adulthood. My papa left me today (TO STARVE!!! Just kidding, we ate enough the last three days to keep me full until Thanksgiving... I'm assuming that was intentional on his part...) and I headed over to campus to visit some friends. Tons of people are coming back today for RA training (haha SUCKERS!) and for various other reasons so I snuck into the cafeteria (Saga, if you may recall) and made the rounds. I saw a few old team members from my leadership team and started feeling both nostalgic and sad. Part of me would really have liked to be an RA again, but I'm ready for a new adventure and feel as though I took as much from the experience last year as I could have. This year will be completely different and yet I anticipate that it'll be completely great! With living off-campus, tour-guiding, classes, being a peer advisor for about 20 freshman, choir, possibly auditioning for the school play (SO excited!), my refugee family and volunteering with the Bonner Leader program, it's shaping up to be a pretty dang good year :)
When papa and I arrived in Spokane after much gluteal distress, we took a tour around campus and went to the beautiful, newly-seeded lawn that was once Keola. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, my much beloved, asbestos-filled home last year has been destroyed. It was really kind of sad, I'm going to miss everything about it. Well, not everything, but the people, the memories and what it represented. But on the flip side, it's kind of cool because I can tell people I'm giving tours to that I once lived in a dorm that doesn't even exist anymore! How about them apples?!
So for the next week and a half (I got here pretty early) I will be getting things put together in my house, bonding with my roommates, and creeping on RA training and Traditiation meetings. I'm in the Library right now for two reasons: 1) It's air conditioned and my house is not, 2) it has Internet and my house does not. We're going to be fixing this very soon, we are looking between Comcast and someone named "my friend knows this guy who..." and we'll probably be going with the latter :) Spokane is beautiful and I wish you were all here, but I'll try and make it feel like you are, okay?! My email at chelsea.casebolt@gmail.com is still fully functioning and I would love to still hear from you all, so don't think that door has closed just because this one has opened up. Also, I've been asked to provide my address here at school, so here it is!
9803 N Ivanhoe Rd
Spokane, WA 99218
Tada! That's it for the first post. Wow, practically painless! So comment away if you see fit, and I will talk to you all soon.
With love,
Chels
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