MY VERY OWN APARTMENT!
That's right, for the first time ever, I am roommate-free and it is Absolutely Fantastic.
The apartment is a very tiny (we prefer the term cozy here) but totally adorable studio that I've made look more like a one bedroom by arranging the furniture quite differently than the last resident did. He was a single, 20-something guy who slept on a futon, so I don't think he was much for home decorating -- said the girl who slept on a futon herself three years ago, but I digress.
My chosen decorating style is 1950s retro surfer, which is code for lots of hibiscus fabric and cocktail parasols without the bamboo that I hate so much. Replace it with chrome, colors that pop and it's paradaise in what my calculations deem less than 300 square feet. I told you it was Cozy, people, and I'll be damned if it isn't the most perfect place I've ever set foot in.
Favorite things: Retired chrome Urban Outfitters display table I scored for chump change b/c store wanted to get rid of it; red-top garage sale coffee table that looks like the baby of aforementioned Urban steal; cool, framed photo I took; $2 Ikea clock covered in mosaic glass to look cool as hell; itty bitty palm tree.
It really doesn't get better than this.