Where Is That? Oh Yeah... We Need One.

Living on your own is kind of hard. I don't think I ever realized all the random and yet needed things that are laying around my house. I was trying to make cupcakes the other night, and I started realizing how essential that weird stuff is. So, next time you move out, make sure you have the following things that I don't have:

• Hot Pads- you would think, working in a hot kitchen all day, I would be a little safer about this. Yet, I've gotten some pretty nice burns at home attempting to take chicken out of the oven.

• A Kitchen Aid- life sucks without one of these. the end.

Things like cookies and other delicious treats
that should be fun and easy to make, are
suddenly very complicated when missing the
right tools!

• Dishwasher Soap- what is the point of having a dishwasher if you have no soap for it? There is none. Thus, it becomes another cupboard to keep dishes in.

• Baking Powder- though I finally did acquire some, this (and other odd cooking goods) are far more difficult to come by than I imagined in a small community of lazy college students.

• Milk- okay, this may be a little off subject, but seriously. I like feel like we should invest in a cow or something for how fast we go through it!

• A Frying Pan- moral of the story: anything that you should cook in a frying pan that you don't, will probably burn and ruin your pan.

• Normal Sized Bowls- this applies to pretty much everything: cups, bowls, plates; is there anything more annoying than cooking a small dinner and only being able to fit half of it on your plate, I highly doubt it.

• Dish Towels- paper towels have become my best friend. And they really really really suck. 

• A Mop- also included: broom and dustpan and a vacuum. Running down the street to borrow one from the clubhouse is pretty much terrible. So a sticky floor with icky hair is the repercussion.

I'm quite sure that if I actually went and looked through my kitchen for 5 seconds, I could quadruple this list. Don't get me wrong, I love my baby kitchen and the adventures that go in it. But moral of the story? When you live on your own and need something, suck it up and just go buy it. It will make life sooo much easier. Or, just don't move out. Problems are all solved then. :)

Oh the Woes of Florida

Florida. The Sunshine State. Home of the Magic Kingdom and all that that implies. So it's this great state with everything right? Wrong. I've been here for 33 days now and I'm utterly upset and downright pissed. Sure it's sunny, I go to a Disney Park pretty well everyday and I can wear shorts any time that I want, but that is not the point! Everyday, I look for one thing and have I seen it? No. You ask what has devastated this supposedly best move and experience of my life? Freaking alligators. I thought that they were everywhere here! I hear these stories of them being on the freeway, in backyards and living in every body of water, and that is all so false! I know that all of this talk of gators in Florida is really just a conspiracy theory covering... something up. I guess maybe with NASA? Who knows. But everyday I wake up with the same dream. It's not a complicated dream, nor is it even expensive or crazy. I just want to see an alligator chillin' in Florida, is that too much to ask??