Ok-A-Homa!

Well my new adventure is now in Oklahoma. Oklahoma you ask? So do I. I would not have chosen this on my own, but since it is for my Paramedic Internship, here I sit :) I am pretty excited to be here. When driving in it looked a lot different than I imagined. There is actually things here instead of just tumbleweeds. I have been here for almost a week and since I am one of the last ones in the class to actually start working I have done quite the exploring with Laura since she hadn't started work yet either. My dad drove me out here and stayed a night at my place since I barely had a bed to sleep on he had to sleep on a stack of blankets, poor guy. But he managed. The beginning of the week we just had boxes everywhere but our place is looking quite nice now. We have almost everything any other apt has just ghetto poor college kid style. Laura was able to bring a little card table with three fold up chairs which is perfect for us, I brought my very stylish older box tv. One of the first few days we knew having no internet would just suck, so we jumped on that real fast and now we have internet. It is awesome, basically completed my life here. We decided a couch was a necessity and that sitting on the floor to watch tv or anything just wasn't cutting it anymore. We looked up some yard sales and other free stuff on craigslist. Yesterday was our yard sale day. We brought Taja and her little guy Emmitt. Me and Laura we're not successful in finding a couch or anything we would benefit from, but Taja found a nice baby carrier. So at least someone got something out of it. We came home and we're all worn out from our yard saling so we took a nap and then we woke up found a house in Norman, OK (which means about as much to you as it does me. All I know is I live in OKC) with a free washer and couch sitting on the side of the road we weren't sure if it would even be there by the time we got there but we had nothing else to do so we jumped in the truck to go find it. After a 45 minute drive we get to the address and find nothing. Full of disappointment (seems to be our motto). We just start driving around and end up in some sketchy neighborhood and i spot a couch on the side of the road so we go and check it out. This is the beauty we found:

Because we are poor and desperate we don't judge. We were all about taking it! Laura had a canopy on her truck so we had to see if it fit in the truck. We start trying to shove this couch in the back of the truck and it just wasn't going to go in. Again full of disappointment. We had to leave the couch, but there was a vacuum sitting there too. So we at least got a free vacuum out it.

We get back on the road and drive by a goodwill so we stop. We have been looking for one since we got here. We go in and straight to the back looking for a couch and the only couch we see is listed at $59.99 we say not happening and we go to walk away and I spot a futon frame for $14.99 and we say no that is doable for a couch. We take the sticker to the front and pay and they didn't offer us help so we just go to the back and walk out with this frame and no one even said a thing to us so we kept going. We get it tied in the truck and start our 45 minute drive back home. On the way home it was dark and rainy, we passed a car accident on the other side of the highway and there were two EMSA ambulances on scene and we got excited for our shifts to start soon :) Once home we looked at the price for a futon mattress and it is not something for our budget right now so instead we took our extra blankets and claimed a spot on the futon  with our blankets and pillows to make it a little more comfortable. It works for us and we don't care what it looks like. 

I would have to say we have gotten pretty good at this. Our apt is looking pretty established. Every time Merritt comes home from her shift we have added something else to our apt. It is beginning to feel more homey with a couch ;)

Well tomorrow I start my internship on the ambulance. I am looking forward to it!! :)