getting settled

I'm finally beginning to feel at home in my apartment. This week all of my furniture came, along with some of my bedding. It felt so good to sleep with my quilt again... I tend to have separation anxiety from that thing. I know, it's a problem. Anyway, I'm lucky to have a very sweet boyfriend who spent his entire Tuesday evening putting together my dresser with me. It took about 3 hours but we managed to have fun in the process. The rest of my furniture will have to wait until Dan comes back over since I'm not very handy with tools.  I went ahead and took some more pictures of the new place, despite the fact that it is still a work in progress.

I got all white furniture for my room, which I love. For my dresser I went to Anthropologie and got some fun knobs to give it a little color:

Our apartment has the cutest little accents, like the arched doorways:

Please excuse our living room! All of the boxes and JUNK in the alcove is my furniture. We also are in the process of getting a table and chairs for the alcove.

Our tiny, but cute little kitchen :)

That's basically it. I love it here and I'm so glad to finally feel at home :) 

I will be taking my Property and Casualty exam a week from Sunday, so please be keeping me in your thoughts and prayers. I've been studying for 8 hours every day, getting through about 2 chapters a day. The information is so dense and so specific that I'm starting to feel like my brain is going to explode, and I've only completed 10 chapters (there are 20 total that I have to study). So until then I will be drinking lots of coffee and basically going insane. And then I will be a working girl... can't wait!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Love and miss Y'ALL!

coolidge corner

I took a few more pictures of coolidge corner, but pictures really do no justice.

  

More of Longwood Ave. down the street from my apartment

 

More of Coolidge Corner

 

 

For the rest of the week I will be studying for my Property and Casualty exam, wish me luck!

my new life

So I'm finally getting settled in my new apartment. Our apartment is in an area called Coolidge Corner. Words cannot describe how incredibly quaint and perfect it is around here. Coolidge Corner is technically in Brookline, which is a town that borders Boston, but considering I am about two miles from downtown there is no notable difference.  Anyway our apartment is a gem. I'm paying less than $700 on rent while living in a very expensive area, yet our apartment is still very nice.  It's small, but has a lot of charm (considering it's probably close to 40 years old).  Since we are still in the midst of putting our apartment together, and considering the fact that all I have in my bedroom right now is a bed and some suitcases, I haven't really taken any pictures yet (I don't even have my own bedding yet). So consider this a tease until this next week when I actually have a decent room.

Longwood Ave, Our Street

Part of Harvard Ave. (the street we live off of)

My room

My favorite part about my room is my window. I have a great window sill and I love that it's so open and bright. Since we don't have air conditioning, my window is just open all day long so I get a nice breeze.  Speaking of that, we have had amazing weather so far! The high has been in the low 70's and it's been nice and sunny out.  Yesterday I went and got a pumpkin spice latte and read in the park. I took a few pictures too.

 Arlington Street Church, across from the Public Garden

 

The Public Garden

A view from the Common

 

Anyway, not a lot is going on. I did finally get a job. I'll be working for an insurance company in downtown Boston, selling auto insurance. Not my dream job but I will be getting paid well, including monthly bonuses and health & dental. I also get a special membership to Boston Sports Club, which is a really nice gym here. So I will be studying for the next two weeks for my licensing exam so that I will be a fully licensed insurance agent in Mass.  I start on October 1.

Hope everyone is having a happy friday!