For instance:
- A door. Yesterday F&CM came to replace the hallway door. It had been sticking all year, and Michelle finally decided that we should get it fixed. It was SO weird to leave yesterday morning and not have a door to shut behind me. But the fact that I now have a door that functions perfectly is wonderful.
- My own room. I shared a room with my brother for a long time, and was so excited to get my own when we put the second floor on our house. Then I came to college and learned to share a room again. I can make the best of really any situation, and I didn't mind having a roommate, but there's something beautiful about having my own space to think and sing and talk to myself and have a random underwear dance party that is just amazing. And this is definitely going to be the most space I'll ever have to myself while living in NYC.
- Money in the bank. I'm not talking big money here, but it's nice to know that I can use my debit card for something other than getting the gunk out from under my fingernails. Seriously, the times when I can't even afford a MetroCard are the worst.
- A phone. I'm not one of those people that's addicted to their iPhone or Blackberry, but back in December I was without a phone for about a week (due to problems with switching my service to AT&T). It was horrendous. I don't realize how important a phone really is for everything I do until I didn't have one. Also, I think my thumbs started to atrophy from disuse.
- Clean laundry. I am the queen of putting off laundry. It's a pain, it's expensive (okay, I know I spend twice as much on a burrito as I do on laundry, but it's the principle of the thing), it takes forever, and I despise folding clothes and putting them away. Once it gets down to the wire, I find myself wearing some pretty ridiculous combinations of clothes/wearing the same pair of jeans four days in a row. But I eventually just bite the bullet and do it. And then it's like heaven. It's wonderful to look in my closet and see so many options, instead of the sweater that's stretched out and has that weird stain and that I only wear as a last resort and today is last resort day.
- Waterproof boots. It sounds weird, but living in Upstate New York, I never really worried about having waterproof footwear for winter. After the age of about ten, my outside time consisted of the time it took to walk from the car to whatever building I was headed to and back (I loved snow as a kid, but then I realized that instead of going outside and freezing my fingers off, I could stay inside reading a book and drinking cocoa [thus my middle-school extreme nerdiness and fatness]). But once I got to college and started walking everywhere, I realized that waterproof footwear was a gift from the gods on high. I have the best boots ever: warm, fuzzy, good traction, and not ghastly to look at (plus they were cheap! Go KMart!). And now my toes stay nice and snuggly all day long, no matter how much slush I encounter.
- Contacts. Oh yeah. These babies are awesome. As jealous as I am of my friends that can just wake up in the morning and see, I love the fact that I have an excuse to wear fun styles of glasses and contacts. I wear colored contacts (my eyes are green anyway, but these contacts make them ridiculously green, to the point that strangers sometimes stop me on the street to compliment them). But the downside of contacts is that itchy feeling you get when they're too old and need to be replaced. That's the point my contacts are currently at. I can't wear them for more than a few hours before I start wanting to rip the suckers off of my eyeballs. But I'm holding out, because I know the new contacts feeling is the best ever.
- I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them at this point. Maybe I'll update this post later!
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