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hers. I had a sofa like his and when i wanted to change up some of my decor I had a hell of a time working around it.

The first just seems easier when you want to change

A purring cat definitely helps me. Whenever my husband would leave town I would feel very anxious sleeping alone in bed and I'm easily stressed and prone to some anxiety attacks. I found that when the cat starts purring the vibration against my arm and the sound really lulls me to sleep. Rain & thunderstorm CDs are great too! I wish I could find more that had just thunderstorms & rain instead of music. Music tends to keep me awake.

Oh I could probably write a novel on one roommate situation alone. She really wanted long distance service on the landline and we agreed as long as she paid the difference (I had a cellphone as did the third roommate). Unfortunately she constantly tried to charge us for long distance calls that she made which was bizarre. She tried to charge me for a call made before I moved in.

She paid bills late and ate our food. When I say she ate our food I mean that she would eat all the cereal in a box save one small bowl's worth. She would eat all the chips in a bag save the crumbs and broken chips at the bottom. She never paid for the food or bought food to replace it because she didn't eat the last bite. Worse was that she would use the bathroom, not wash her hands, and then dig through our food. I thought about her urine soaked hands pulling apart my slices of bread.

She used the other roommate's razor regularly rather than buy a new one. She would go into our rooms looking for our snack foods and eat a good portion of it or she would borrow books without notice and without returning them.

Finally, when she moved out she left a closet full of items there and said that they were 'to be taken' to our new apartment (our=my place & the 3rd roommate's place, we decided not to live with this girl) and held until she returned to the state. Basically, she left all those items there and expected us to find storage for it in our new, smaller place.

We'd confronted her a few times about the food and she swore up and down that she did not eat it but she often ate the other roommate's beef & pork, neither of which I eat. It was hard to pin that on me. She also said that she would buy food if she had the money to do so - I found out she was saving to go vacation in Paris which is why she did not have money for food and ate ours instead.

Our solution: She wouldn't own up to it so we waited until the end of the lease and the 3rd roommate & I got our own place together.

I own a condo where many of the other condo owners have moved and rent out their space to college & graduate students. They are moving in & out so often that it seems like we have no time to get to know each other. There was a family who lived below us & they were the only people who had contacted us - they threatened to call the police because we showered and did laundry at night.

We don't have a TV in our bedroom. I know that either one of us would be tempted to watch it while the other was sleeping and it would just be distracting. I also loving having space in my bedroom and to give away more space in it just seems like a crime.