Day 6

Tonight we finally watched Labyrinth for the first time since moving in together. Oh, the glorious, glittery, goodness! Muppets, no-reason plots, David Bowie, 80's music and clothing, what's not to like?!

Since it's Saturday, we were also able to have our first Apartment Breakfast. (Usually we're not all awake at the same time.) Beth and Erin made banana pancakes, then pulled Grosland out of her bed to come and eat with them. They each drank straight out of their respective gallons (Beth's has a blue lid, Grosland's a green lid, and Erin's a red lid).

Grosland is still possessed by Dragon Age. It is doing terrible things to her; she's a crazed mind-zombie for that game. Today she saved the Circle of Magi, bought lots of presents for Alistair (so he'll like her again), and was betrayed by her dearest friend Leske. It was pretty traumatic. She really almost cried.

Today was actually an important day in real life for Erin. She's been taking a voice-dance-acting class for the last four months, and today she performed in their showcase. It's a very prestigious *coughcoughexpensivecoughcough* group she performed with - they filmed the performances and are sending them off as audition tapes to Nickelodeon, Disney, and other big showbiz people.

Note: Because this performance was a recording session, it lasted FOREVER. Grosland went to watch Erin's awesomeness (Beth had to be sad at work instead) and the pair of them snuck out soon after Erin finished her number. She sang "King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles, and it was fantastic. Cheers for being talented and successful, Erin!

Day 5

Today we had a house warming party with Greg. We drank out of our milk jugs. We ate sausage gumbo, and Beth didn't add garlic so her life was ruined. Gros pissed Alistair off by killing a semi-foreign and extremely annoying oddity.

No, Mr. Goody two-shoes is not pleased. Now their relationship is utterly compromised (Which wouldn't have happened if she were just a complete suck-up-bleeding-heart-saver-of-everyone like Erin.) What shall become of them!? Can Gros repair this relationship? Will Alistair look past her wicked faults? Will Gros learn the importance of saving every character in this game from their circumstances?! Stay tuned! (Hint: Gros will NOT save every character from their circumstances.)

Erin and Gros went on an office-and-complex quest to hand in our apartment damage checklists and to figure out how we get mail. Success! We can now get mail... and stuff. Yes.

Day 4

Today... was... boring. (And you can tell from this apparent lack of detail that Beth is trying to write the post. She doesn't actually ever manage to be at the apartment when anything interesting happens.)

Jk. Uhm... today (for Beth) was women's conference. Does this mean she attended the conference? Nooooo, no no. She was on campus during the which. For those of you who have been to women's conference, you know what this entails. Lots of questions. Lots of lines. Lots of... lack of bathrooms.

Back at the apartment of awesome, Gros and Erin... did... Gros and Erin things. Like make soup Gros... did some sleeping. Erin did some babysitting. Then she played video games for several hours. (Or rather, she shanked herself some darkspawn.)

Then blue koolaid and cheesesticks happened. Good day.

Day 3

Today was lazy again. Jessica spent over four hours playing that wretchedly wonderful game, Dragon Age. She couldn't get anything else done, she told herself, because her internet wasn't working. How could she type a blog or email her friends or update her JobSearch if she didn't have the internet.

Fortunately, her techo-gifted father came to visit their apartment that evening. After making a sarcastic comment about their decorations ("Oh yeah, you guys will have no problem getting a man in THIS apartment!") he used his magical powers to get Jessica's internet working again. Yay! They might have invited this fantastic man to stay for dinner, but he fled after seeing Beth drop a utensil on the floor and start using it again without washing it.

We're in COLLEGE, Dad!

Anyways.  The evening ended with Zupas Cheese Soup, a dollar store run (with knives and straws) and the beginning of the female-apartment-standard--the quote wall (doubling as tasteful decoration.)  Alas, we now part for another day.  

Day 2

Today Beth went to school.

(*significant pause*)

BWA HA HA HA HA HA - said Jessica and Erin.

While Beth was being responsible and stuff, Erin had the fantastic opportunity to introduce Jessica to the wonderful world of DRAGON AGE, a video game of epic proportions.

They did that all day.

...ALL DAY.

Well, except Jessica took a nap on accident. Stupid early morning job....

At the end of the day, the pair of delinquents ventured to Park Place to have dinner with a troupe of flying monkeys. (Well, they were human really. But they were strange. In an awesome way.) They ate spaghetti and french bread and green beans and it was all delicious. They had a rousing discussion of Twilight and pregnancy and biblical homosexuality and racism. All in all, a rather delightful evening.

Now they are on the couch, waiting for responsible Beth to come home, like a pair of sad puppies. And they are debating whether Cain is Bigfoot.

The Beginning

It started with a wish...

We go together, the three of us; three parts of a whole. Others may come and go, but through high school and into college, it's been us three. But it can't continue uninterrupted forever. The beginning of August will set in motion a parting of the ways, which, however temporary, will put some distance between our trio for a while. Upon realizing that this will be our last summer as a unit for a while, we also realized that, despite our relationship, the three of us have never actually lived together.

Until now.


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Beth Black moved in at precisely at ten o'clock. Beth is a Landscape Management major, and brought eleven potted plants to the apartment. She is getting her papers ready as she prepares to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Working two jobs AND going to school full time, she is the one who knows how to get things done when the other two just want to play with bubbles for an hour.

Erin Asay came around at about eleven o'clock. Erin recently got out of a fistfight with the university and is NOT taking any classes. A pirate's life is the life for her: she brought a Jack Sparrow poster and a Jolly Roger to the apartment. She works on campus in one of the computer labs, trying to explain to students which of the buttons turns the screen on.

Jessica Grosland didn't come in until four o'clock in the afternoon. She works a custodial job at four in the morning, and was napping while the other two were settling in. She isn't taking any classes either; instead she is going to work all summer long saving money - see, she's going to be teaching English to children in Russia this fall semester. Jessica brought a lava lamp to the apartment, and greeted all her neighbors wearing her very best safari helmet.

Now it is late. The sun has set on the first day of their last summer together. They've already had their first minor catastrophe when the pizza they were trying to make (three-meat, stuffed crust) started falling apart inside their oven and they each tried to grab it out at the same time. So it begins - with a scream, and a laugh, and delicious cheesy goodness.

Jessica, Erin, and Beth.

Juh. Air. Eth.

The Jareth Chronicles.