in real life.

a lot of things are different in real life. the most different for me is learning how to make friends when you're not simply given a community. i call it making friends from scratch. but i guess i'm cheating a little because i knew people out here before i moved, and well, i have a church. nonetheless, it's still hard. how do you know if you're not trying hard enough to make friends, or if you're trying too hard...

in case you were wondering...

i had my first celebrity sighting this week! haha. well, kathryn really saw him first. if she hadn't been there, i totally would have missed it. but...we saw john stamos!!! that's right, uncle jesse in the flesh. haha. it was pretty cool. we were on the WB lot though, is that still just as cool?

happy anniversary.

so last saturday (november 8), california and i had our one month anniversary. yay. 

happy birthday laura!

november 4, 2008. it happens to be election day, a very important election day at that...but also it's Laura's 24th BIRTHDAY! yay. which makes her two years older than me for a little over a month. ha. so, happy 24th Laura!!! i miss you!

i like it when it's cloudy here.

i know that sounds crazy. but i can't help it, i miss fall. it's too sunny in california. which also sounds crazy i'm sure. i was talking to a friend on the phone yesterday telling her about the HOT weather, and at one point in the conversation i said "but it's going to get down to the 70's this week"... at the end of OCTOBER. this so very different. 

alas, it's starting to sprinkle right now and i'm outside. i should pack up my computer.

good thing i like pb&j.

we moved in!!! it feels so nice to have our own space. and it feels great to not be constantly worried if someone is going to break into my car and steal my stuff. 

so here is our living room right after we brought everything up from our cars. 

so we unpacked! ha. our apartment is a bit sparse at the moment...oh and that lamp you see, we found it in the basement by the dumpsters. now we actually have light when it gets dark! (although, not in our rooms yet...)

this is my room. huge, but empty.  

kathryn and i celebrated with some wine (in my awesome blue wine glasses) on our first night in our new apartment!

one day...

being in california has forced kathryn and i to live simply. now, that also has caused us to dream about the day we can have things again.

for example.

one day...when i can have cheese again.


in other news, tonight's dinner cost us 80 cents. we're living the life.