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This fall will be full of new for me and I'm very excited, but of course nervous at the same time. It won't be the first time I've moved away from home, but this time I'm not in the comfort of campus, I'm not with 4 other girls who are feeling the same way as I am (I don't even know who I'll be with this semester!), and I don't even have the comfort of knowing I'll be back at the end of the semester - a yearly lease means I'm gone for good. Also, I've grown even closer to my family this summer than I've ever been. We seem to understand one another a lot better than before, and I really appreciate the love they've given me, but the space they've respected as well.

So like I said, I'll be moving away from home in a week (I didn't even realize it was that soon until this moment... ugh), and I'm so very nervous. I hope that my roommate and I will get along well, and that the apartment is in great condition. Scott assures me it will be, but I after seeing the first one he moved into, I'm skeptical. I know right now that I have the basics of making the place livable - bedding, kitchen ware, cleaning stuff - but how do I make it home? I think I'll just pack all the pictures I have and start there, but what is it about where I am now that makes me comfortable? All of the expertly placed foliage (Mom could make a killing at interior design), the trinkets my parents have collected? I know the love, and my puppies, could never be duplicated, but I need to get close enough. This will be an adventure in finding out where I'm most comfortable, and how to make my place my home.