Yesterday Maren and I moved to Provo so that she could be closer to work and I could be closer to school and we could both save money on gas. We found a place we liked and we would not be paying too much on rent, I know it is not the best place, but we will make it work.
But anyway... So Ashley and I show up first, which is surprising since we left after Maren and the movers, but we arrived only shortly before Maren. As she has all her stuff brought in Ashley and I just kind of wait around for mom, who made a quick shopping stop. When Julie (Maren's mom) brought in the groceries we went to look in the freezer and noticed that there would not be any room for them. We decided to tackle that mountain after everything had been brought in. At that point only one of our roommates was up and around, Julie.. anyway she just says hi, never offers to help or welcomes us to the apartment, does not seem too interested in us at all. Anyway, a few minutes later we meet another roommate, Holly, she has been living here a year and pretty much feels as if she runs the place. She does not follow the Landlords rule about no dirty dishes in the sink or leaving your stuff in the living room, her and Julie have pretty much claimed that as their own and the rest of us keep to our space. They each are on their laptops and have a movie on, usually some old one, with the subtitles. I don't know if they can't hear it, or if the dialog is so good they don't want to miss out on anything.
So now it was time to deal with the food so that none of it went bad. They were both in the kitchen and I politely asked if there was anything we could do about the fridge situation. Julie said that straightening out the fridge was on her to do list that day and I accepted that answer and said oh okay.. then Holly says there is another freezer in the garage. It does cost a lot more to keep it running and they brought it over when it was just 3 of us living here so we haven't used it. There was hope! So i said okay maybe we can use that just while we can find more space in the fridge. Julie sat right down and started moving stuff around.. I don't know what she did, but she never did find us any freezer space... I am pretty sure she just kinda looked at the condiments until I went upstairs and had to deal with other stuff. So we go down to the basement that the garage is off of to go plug in the fridge. When I opened it, the fridge had mold in it and smelled very bad. I quickly shut the door and was immediately discouraged. I am paying rent here, the girls aren't very nice and now I have to deal with a moldy fridge that is three staircases below me. I couldn't take this. So I called mom, who had still not come and had gotten lost, and asked if she could get bleach and baking soda. She said she was almost here and wanted to first find it and then would gladly go and get those items. So when she gets here.. of course mom being mom says " Kristen I thought your kitchen was supposed to have just been re-modled!" I just said that's the other side, not really wanting to talk about it since the girls were right there on the couch. And she said well aren't you supposed to be on that side and I tried to just give her the answer that she thought we would be more comfortable with girls of our similar age rather than girls that have recently graduated from BYU and Maren and I had agreed so we were now on this side. And mom just keeps the topic going. FINALLY I get her to bring the conversation upstairs, after she has totally criticized their cleaning and their home, and remind her that it is not polite to say things like that in front of the girls that live here. She did not see how she may have said anything that was impolite or would embarrass me in the slightest. So we go show her the fridge, she agrees to get the supplies and even goes down and cleans it... she says it was her punishment being sent to the dungeon to clean the fridge, but at any rate I love my mom that she would do that for me.
We have another roommate Kylie, which we like. However, she works in Ogden and will only be down here for like 2 days out of the week, total bummer since she is the one we will most likely actually talk to. She is not a huge Holly fan. They have had their disagreements in the past and I think their solution has been ignore each other. Another girl, Allie, will be moving in within the week. It will be interesting to see how we all get along or if it will be more like we all live under the same roof, but have no interest in each other.
So at this point I will maintain my weight at the very least, if not lose some and gain muscle from having to not only walk from Kingdom Come and back for class, but also now walking up and down the spiral staircase at meals. I will be burning off the calories of my meals before I even get to eat them. We do have some snacks on hand in our room so that we won't totally starve to death!
But hopefully we can all get along and learn to like each other or that they can just give me good stories to keep all of our lives more interesting.
I posted this picture so you all could see my supervisor Christine. She is the blonde in the black Smiling. the only one really looking at the camera.
Most of the gang lining up to play some bumper boats!
Us all on the Bumper Boats, I would like you all to know that I DOMINATED everybody with this. Everybody else came out soaking wet. Because of me! :)
Hector, Alan, and Me..They are trying to come after me... UNSUCCESSFULLY!
My other friend Lorelei is the one in the samon colored jacket. She is my SAVIOR when it comes to hard questions on the phones. She is totally awesome and so so patient. Love her!
I had to put up a picture of Jeff. Especially since he is the whole reason I currently have the job that I do. You rock Jeff, thanks a bunch! (He is enjoying himself on the race cars!)
