My fourth and final roommate of my university career has moved out and I have to say, living alone is pretty awesome.
When I set something down, I am the only one who is going to pick it up. When I go to bed at night, no one comes in at weird hours and wakes me up. When I clean up a room of the apartment, the room stays clean until I make it messy.
In short, I really like living by myself.
I'm also really excited about having a spare bedroom. My search for a fifth roommate proved unsuccessful, so the small bedroom of my apartment is completely unoccupied and mine to do with what I will.
I have been going back and forth between three potential options for the spare room.
First, I could leave it alone. Use the closet for storage. Visit the room when necessary, but essentially pretend it doesn't exist. Ignoring the bedroom would be the least expensive of my options and would require the least amount of work.
Second, I could turn the entire room into a blanket fort. I'm a big fan of the TV series Community and two of the characters, Troy and Abed, have a blanket fort that they live in inside their apartment. If I take this route, I'd need to spend several hours gathering the materials and several more hours putting the fort together. I visualize a two-bedroom fort with a door and a bunch of pillows to allow for maximum relaxation. I could set up a mini-fridge, or maybe just haul a cooler in there. Building a blanket fort would require me to buy some more blankets, or probably cheap sheets. I would also have to purchase some (dreaded) throw pillows and general comfortable things for lounging purposes.
Finally, I could turn the room into a ball pit. That's right, like at McDonalds or other play areas. I would probably need to block the bottom half of the doorway to keep the balls inside the room. I'd also have to order a ton of those multi-coloured plastic balls. Amazon.com has a bunch; for a shipment of 500 it costs almost $100. I assume I'd need something like 1,500 to fill the bottom half of the room, which is necessary for optimal frolicking. It would seriously be so awesome to have a ball pit. I would swim around in there in my free time and relieve stress by tossing the balls around. It would seriously be a blast.
I'm still waiting for my ant problem to sort itself out, so I don't need to make a decision right now. But after the exterminators roll through on the 11th, one of the three options will be taken. And there's a good chance it's going to be awesome.
Tonaya Marr is clearly unfit to live alone. Please wish her well by e-mailing her at [email protected] or sending her a tweet @TonayaMarr.
