angiepants [one pocket at a time]

On constant calling, fitting into school schedules, and checking costs.

AKA:Apartment Searching

I’m not apologizng for starting to fill my page with apartment things.  Actually, I’ve spent less time here and spent it almost glued to Craigslist and Padmapper.  Those are actualy semi-addicting and I’ve learned itsnothealthy to check them every morning.

Its great to getbetterat apartment searching.  The first one is terrifying (at least for me, when going alone, it was!), the next handful are frustrating, but the last ones just start to become more fitting.  I now love knowing what questions to ask, showing the photos to my mom and close friends, and the idea of having a space I really, truly enjoy living in and making my own (at this point, most likely with ‘strangers’ I’d of course become friends with!  Plus, its so much cheaper that way!).

Wherever I land-friends, you are welcome for dinner anytime!

On things you collect but never know 100%

You know what’s wild?  How much you don’t know about most people.  Yes, you gather tidbits of their history, their likes, their manners through conversations here and there, but how much total to do you really know about them?

Go through the majority of your good friends and even your family.  It’s usually a game of catch up with a friend and you might not even realize you don’t know everything about your parents. 

Just a couple of years ago, I found out one of my grandfather’s was an alcoholic.  That put a huge perspective change of my mother, my nanny, and the family dynamic she had to go through growing up (That grandfather has passed away when I was 10 so I have difficulty picturing  him as anything other than Good Ole’ “Tickly grandpa”). 

Or just the past couple of years I’ve gotten closer to some friends while trying to jump around between the old.  It’s embarrassing when you realize you don’t know what their plans for after graduating are, what the status is with their siblings.  It’s only through shared time and stories that you really have history and friendship. 

It’s easy to be interested in so many things and intrigued by so many people during your walk of life, but it’s key to add and grow onto those connections you’ve already made.  In a society that faults for wanting more, let’s not crave more food, more gizmos and gadgets, more money, but let’s crave more out of the people we surround ourselves with.  Get those stories from when they grew up, their high school experience, what they struggled with, what things they find most important in life.  Discovering and uncovering more about those you care about is the best gift imaginable.

Isn’t it a pretty basic equation?

I outreach.  We make plans.  You cancel plans. ___________ (Insert chirping crickest and me left not seeing you)

People, please stop ditching.  If you do, please have the decency to be the outreach-er next time.

Signs that you’ve been home too long:

• Cooking 1-2 family sized meals each day

So much that you start reorganizing the whole kitchen that’s not even yours and get offended dishes never seem to leave the sink and disgusted how much a dishwasher wastes.

• Reading on the laptop because you can’t find anything new in your house or what you actually want to read at the Library.


And getting annoyed at starting at a screen, worrying you’ll fall asleep breaking it or the battery life dying.

• Doing arts n’ crafts constantly but losing motivation (crocheting, completely future birthday gifts, scrapbooking)


Enough that you don’t want to clean it up or can’t seem to finish the last 5%, ever.

• Organizing and cleaning your old room


that already needed reorganizing and ridding of things but your lazy parents just stored with more things with while you were gone.

• Feeling like you’re begging for friends’ company in every text, email and call.


Day 28 - Did any of your high school friends go to the same college as you? If not, do you still talk to your old high school friends?

One did.  WhooHoo Sayville High School!!  But we weren’t really friends back then so what would make College different?  Especially going from a class of 180 to Drexel’s huge student body?

He’s also an engineer so there was never any luck of us being in classes together.  The only time I really talked to him was by facebook messages after freshman year because I was desperate for other people’s opinions on Drexel while mine was in the state of plummeting.

I have a few good friends from high school I randomly catch up with but it’s been different since I almost never go home.  Even when I do, it never seems long enough to get them to actually do something.  I’m all about planning get togethers because I know that’s currently what my busy and limited life schedule is running on. 

It was tough at first not being able to make trips home frequently but I’ve been learning to live my life here and enjoy it here.  That’s been a source of a growing happiness and pride for me while at the lessening of some Long Island relationships.

Heck Yeah Tumblr Challenges!: 30 Day College/University Challenge

Downloading Harry Potter 4 on Audiobooks

because I’m really not a fan of people right now.

AKA: My ‘friends’ are not reliable on plans and now I feel like a continued anti-socialite.

On constant dirty dish work and the spice of life inbetween.

Let’s spit it out straight: I work with food.  A lot.

I’m constantly washing utensils, have recipes erupting out of cupboards, and wishlists filled with rolling pins, icing tips, standing mixers and more. 

This is unusual for the college campus student who may think boiling water is their biggest accomplishment of their independence or simply has no problem spending many dollars on pre-made foods or on tips at a bar.  For me, there’s something interesting about food.  Every part of it.  Where bought, who making with, the presentation, the enjoyment.  It has a narration passed down through culture and family yet it’s also constantly new and evolving alongside the times.

Currently in my kitchen there’s creamy cucumber soup, sweet potato pineapple salad, Greek Pasta salad, and on the counter is a platter of banana peanut butter cupcakes.  I’m on the path of making an organized collection cookbook of everything appetizers to drinks.

So please know if I share my eats with you, it’s an invitation to share something that exciting and enriching to me.  It’s also something I used to control too much.  Now, I’m okay with simply enjoying the scents with my oven and apron companions, but I’m learning to openly share it among friends and acquaintances.