My own apartment... and sleeping (or lack thereof)

I've gotten kind of terrible at blogging. Whoops.

I'm not even sure if I mentioned this in my blog. But at the end of August, Karen moved to Utah, so I moved in to a house with a different roommate (a girl I hadn't met before, but she seemed nice enough when I got a tour of the place). It was a really nice house and a good price, but it was a bit uncomfortable. My roommate and I just didn't click. At all. But I was determined to stick it out. It felt so right for me to move in with her. Why should I give up? However, after being there about a month, I got a 30 days notice from my roommate. That was rough. I'm really not a bad roommate, I promise! But it was a month-to-month arrangement and she owned the house and apparently no longer wanted me there. So I woke up one morning and there was a note telling me that was my 30 days notice to find other living arrangements. Ouch.

I really didn't know what to do. After that rough experience with that one roommate, I was really hesitant to move in with someone random again. But things fell into place for me to get my own apartment. And as hard as that last roommate experience was, it did help me realize how ready I was for my own place. If I had moved into my own place straight from living with Karen, I think I would have questioned it a lot more. I think I needed to go a bit down a wrong road in order to find the right one.

Anyways, I really like my apartment. I don't love paying all the bills myself, but I get over it when I remind myself how nice it is to do what I want without walking on eggshells around a roommate. It's been fun to decorate and furnish how I want instead of relying on what's already there. Maybe one of these days, I'll hang some pictures on the wall and put things away enough to take pictures for a little apartment tour, but that day is not today. Also, it should be noted that I do have a spare bedroom and bathroom (and an inflatable queen Aerobed), if anybody wants to visit.

In other news, I'm still exhausted a lot. After getting the results from the sleep study (and finding out my insurance requires putting someone on a CPAP for sleep apnea before other options), I've been on a CPAP machine for close to 3 months...but I'm still really tired. I talked to my doctor about it and now they're trying to figure out what else is going on. Now that the apnea is treated, it must be something else. So I'm trying a sleep aid, but I think it's going to be some trial and error. It's not fun being tired all the time... especially when it means my emotions are haywire and I'm not able to fully think clearly. But I'm hoping we can figure something out. And I am grateful for good health insurance that is helping pay for all of this fun stuff.