Hurricane Irene

Hi all!!

I made it through a rather boring but somewhat helpful orientation and my first week of classes.  I am really excited for my classes but it is definitely taking some adjusting. I technically am taking four classes but one is my lab rotation (more on that next week) and the other is "First Year Group." It's like the freshman orientation class that a lot of university's have students take just adjusted up for graduate students. My other two classes however, are more focused lecture/discussion classes.  What's weird with them is that we have a different professor at least every week in both of those classes.  I like the idea of this because I'm being taught by experts but it's also difficult to wrap my mind around adjusting to a different person every week.  I am looking forward to it though!!

So now, for what all of you are worried about...Hurricane Irene

Yes, Hurricane Irene hit the North Carolina coast today.  Yes, it just stopped raining here a little while ago.  But they are not predicting that the heavy rain/winds will come this far inland.  We are expecting rain and fairly significant winds tomorrow (gusts up to 40 mph) but nothing too terrible.  We have plenty of food and drink and are planning on staying at home all day tomorrow and enjoying the rain. For those of you who aren't  that familiar with North Carolina, Chapel Hill is only slightly west of Raleigh.  You can pretty easily watch the hurricane in relation to Raleigh so hopefully that will help! If you are concerned just text me and I'll tell you what's happening here!

On a slightly happier note, I got my North Carolina driver's license today!!

Have a great weekend!

Wonderful Furniture

If you have every lived in an apartment or a home for even just a few days without furniture, you know that it is rather uncomfortable.  So, while I realize that I am extremely blessed to have this furniture, I am so so glad it is here.  It took a while to get everything clean and organized and my desk is still a mess but here a pictures of the furniture!!

Bedroom:
The nightstands have charging stations in the top drawer so you can charge up to four devices.  There are also lights under the nightstand to turn on when you get up at night.  I still want a lamp but they are really nice.

The half bath in the laundry room is nautilus shell!

 

The living room, so far I've spent a lot of time on the couch watching the West Wing but I guess that's going to have to stop soon when I actually go to school...

 

And the piece of furniture I was most excited about, the dining room table:

 

The wall decorations are sticker clings. The white dots are white boards and the black dots are chalkboards.  We used them tonight to plan our meals for next week and I'm pretty excited about them in general.

I continue to be amazed by this area.  This morning we went to two Farmer's Markets and got some fantastic produce.  I am most excited about the peaches I got.  We're grocery shopping tomorrow so that should be another adventure!

The Beauties of Moving

Moving day arrived and in came all my stuff.  It was a little bit of a mess..

Living room:

 

Dining room:

 Office:

My room:

After moving all of that in, mom and I went to Target to grab a few essentials.  While we were gone Lucas being the wonderful person he is cleaned and got it to looking like this:

and this:

Since then we've spent most of time organizing, cleaning, buying food, etc. Everything is arranged and now I get to start picking out wall decorations! Tomorrow I'll post pictures of the furniture!

We made it!

We made it!  The drive was pretty uneventful, my tire pressure light coming on was about the most dramatic thing that happened and we think it's just from being too hot.  We went furniture shopping today and I'll include pictures below of some of what we got.  I have all of my big furniture except a coffee table now!!! All the salesmen kept asking us about the heat...they didn't seem to understand that Oklahoma/Arkansas is really, really hot.  I hope everyone at home is staying cool!! Now for pictures:

Living room:

 

For those of you who know Lucas, I'll also have his brown leather chair, TV, black TV stand, and dark wooden media chest in the living room.  Any ideas for wall art or a coffee table are appreciated!!

Spare room:

The spare room will mostly be an office/where I study when I don't need the entire dining room table so here's the desk.  We still have to decide what we're doing about a bed for when guests come (hint, hint, please come visit!). I also still need a bookshelf and a chair...but that will come.

Dining room:

Just a table, nothing exciting...but there will be a red accent wall in the dining room so that will be more exciting!

We also got two night stands and a dresser for the bedroom but I didn't take a picture of that...so you can see it when I get the room at least mostly set up! I actually move into the apartment tomorrow but I won't have internet for a while and the furniture doesn't get there until Tuesday. That just leaves more time for unpacking boxes!!! (Not excited...)