Things I've learned living on my own

• Most things aren't quite as fun when you have to do them on your own
• I need people and crave conversation
• Crowds are no longer a fear that keeps me away from them (although at times traffic can be overwhelming when you're running late for work)
• I like to work
• Without the stressful times you can't enjoy the stress free times as much
• Target is my best friend
• Down comforters make me sneeze and should be stuffed in closets so as not to see the light of day
• Dishes pile up in the sink slower when you live on your own
  
• I love fresh cut flowers in my house but I don't know that I'd have the motivation to maintain a garden anytime soon in my life
• Painting my fingernails only stops me from biting them until I pick off the paint (needless to say I repaint them a lot)
• I have an overwhelming addiction to desserts/sugar that if ignored results in the consumption of mass amounts a sugar in a very short amount of time
  
• Dawson's Creek is still as entertaining as it was when I was 13
  
• Food shopping is not as fun without roommates
  
• I love reading books
• My cousins babies are the cutest ever
• Airplanes flying over your head at 6:30 am not only rattle your house but your bed and brain (haha just kidding most of the time I don't notice them that early)
  
• Driving a monster truck is amazingly fun but it sucks to park
• I love when you go shopping and you find that one thing that you can't live without
• Working at Nordstrom makes you forget how expensive some of the clothes in the designer section are when people throw them sloppily back on the hangers
• Personal shoppers sell loads of clothes and anyone can have one for free :)
• Two words (Hanky Pankys) gotta love um
• My grandma is capable of asking me the same question 7 times in less than 2 minutes
• There is nothing better than Mexican food!
• There's almost nothing else as magical as watching the sunset from the cliffs with the pelicans floating up and down the coast
• Although I haven't spent all that much time at the beach it's just the comfort of knowing that it's there that makes all the difference

There are 14 days until my family arrives (yes it's reached a countdown point). I'm finished working...turns out they don't need me anymore. So now I have to spend my time enjoying what time I have left here. But as always....easier said than done.