A Pictoral View of my Boston Digs.

So here is my humble view of my boston experience so far. Its been an interesting journey. I drove 2,600ish miles across the country in less than 4 days, visited with my sister, a couple I taught on my mission, both Kirtland and Palmyra sites, had an awesome evening with the Purdy's, spent some time with my cousin and his family, found a place to live, went to a new ward, made new friends, and interviewed for a job in less than a week. Tonight marks a week from my first night in Boston. It doesn't seem like I could have been here this long, but I have! I feel like such a bum because I haven't accomplished more, but my best friend Sass pointed out everything I have done in the last week and that I should be tired.

Boston is/has:
Big, but small feeling.
Has the craziest drivers in the world! (lots of fun stories to come!)
Has had a range of temperatures from 100 degrees to 57 degrees since I've been here.
Humidity! hello puffy hair. (No wonder I wore my hair in a bun my whole mission! haha)
It costs $13 to go to a movie!
People who have never hear of UTAH!
Awesome crazy accents.
Jess threatened me to not come back sounding like them. haha wish me luck!
Awesome grocery stores! Whole Foods and Trader Joes! (still not as good as Wegmans but...)
Nice people. and people who stalk....more stories on that later.


Okay, here we go...

Here is my house. I live in Medford, MA. It is about 7 miles from Boston. Don't worry it still takes like 45 minutes to drive...AH!
It looks kind of grand here doesn't it? haha
Please forgive my room. The house isn't furnished and since I just drove my car, I don't have any furniture and no funds to buy any, thus the mess on the floor. I haven't come up with an organizational way to store all my stuff yet...maybe tomorrow? I'm thinking of getting apple boxes at the store. Anyway, here is my closet.

My one splurge. 4 drawer tupperware.
SOO lame. Man I will show you an after picture when I clean all that up!
I shouted for joy when I noticed this ceiling fan, literally shouted! and then I almost cried. Bliss!
I have 3 windows in my room with those "awesome" roller shades from like what the 60's? Sometimes they work though so thats nice.

On to the kitchen...Here is the sink. notice the empty place where a dishwasher could be, but where we keep the trash and recycling. All my pics are out of order so later we'll come back to the kitchen.

Off the kitchen is this dining room.
And off that is the sitting room. This picture makes it look even better than it is...
And off the sitting room is another sitting room, looks like a dumping ground. One of my roommates lives up in the attic and that is how you get to her room using that open doorway.
This door goes to the front balcony/porch. It looks with an actual old time key!
and into the hallway.the best part of the hallway is that awesome light. really it is awesome up close...and that mattress. hhhhmmmm,......
This stairway goes to the left of that coat closet and goes down to the front of the house.
This is the other side of the balcony/porch doorway. My one roommate Julie keeps her plants out there. Its kind of pretty really.
This is a close up shot of the stairway leading to the attic. Julie lives in half of it and then the other half is storage...its cool but not filled with much.
This is the door to my room. All of the doors have these cool crystal doorknobs.


Another view of my lovely room. Can you see my awesome air mattress bed? that leaks? I know. I am living the high life! hahaha

My roommate Amber lives in the lavender room. Its lovely and so is she.
Bathroom!
and into the shower. I try to keep the curtain open in case a murderer is on the other side...

This is the gem of the bathroom. the backside of the door.
This is the hallway flooring....
Back to the kitchen....yes we have two fridges. One is unplugged because they didn't need it. I want to plug it in again since there isn't room...and we all know how I've wanted my own fridge :)


The kitchen laminate....yum.The other corner of the kitchen. My cupboard is the one on the bottom left with the door ajar.
And the washer and dryer! I think its the same kind that I had growing up! haha
This is going down the back stairway...creepy.
On the back deck thing. Don't go out there all the nails have been pulled up and you could die....
The view from the back. That is where we can park our cars. and the street. love the trees!
back yard...corner...thing.
this is the view of the side yard. the bulge on the left top is my room's windows.
Looking down the street out front.
Looking down the street in the back.
Back view of the house.
Ugly flooring in the creepy upstairs

The back staircase. reminds me of the Big Blue House a little. :)
Just wanted to give you a taste of what the walls look like.
Back door....
Back door floor...yum.
This is the garage full of junk that doesn't belong to us.

I might have taken these pictures while driving...BUT notice. Do you see lines on the road? Oh you don't? well the street I'm driving on has two lanes. You just have to pretend there are lines!
This is a placard outside of my house. seems interesting. might look into it further.
This is our "yard". We have a nice variety of weeds.
Here is my car! Big Blue. I love my car! Thanks to my wonderful Parents I have this awesome thing to drive in and our run muggers, stalkers, and crazy drivers.
Another street...

This road gets so backed up during rush hours. Its called Mystic Valley Parkway....

But at least there are ball fields to watch while you wait in line.



Boston skyline!

The Bridge in this picture is really cool and reminds me of the cable bridge in WA.


Its interesting to see the different plates around here....like CT, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire. They sure are a lot prettier than Idaho and Colorado...
New love.
Hope you've enjoyed your pictorial view of my life in Boston thus far. Thank you to everyone who have helped me get out here and try to live a dream. much love!