Surprise!! A New Roommate!

Sound asleep. The door opens. I wake up and roll over to bright light coming through my door. A nice looking young lady tiptoes in, apologizing for waking me and tells me she’ll just drop off her things and be gone. A man follows with a couple boxes. They set things down and as they walk out I mention to her that I had written a note to my next roommate so she could have an idea of who she was rooming with and that we’d talk on my next day off. “OK. Sorry to bother you.” I roll over and go back to sleep. But I smile.

**(Update: Thursday 24 April 2008) I like her. We agree on things. I wasn’t taking any chances, I wanted to be sure she would be OK with the fact that I would be off two nights a week and that I would probably be on my computer most of the time either chatting or watching movies. We agreed that we would share the chores of keeping the room clean. We talked about splitting the cost of a refrigerator and microwave. She will be here for a year, but her schedule although maybe once in a while might be a little less stringent than it sounds, is for her to work seven 12 hour days in a row for three months and then have a three week vacation. She walked to the PX tonight and I gave her my Green Beans Card so she could get us each a coffee. I told her to use the blanket I had put on that bed, it is warm and pretty, so she was happy to use it, especially since I keep the temperature in the sub zero range on my nights off. I also had bought “risers” for both beds. You put them under the four corners of the beds and it lifts the bed up about 5 inches so you can store a lot more stuff under the bed (Target Special). That helped me a lot. There were some things I just didn’t have room for. She had a box at the foot of her bed that she had no place else to put, the risers worked out great. POOF!!! Under the bed it disappears! Yeah... I think we will get along fine.