I recently ventured out on my own and am renting my very own grown-up apartment. With this venture into fierce independant living, I have discovered the meaning behind what the late George Michael so eloquently sang about, “freedom”.

Freedom is…

1. Washing dishes by hand…a lot of dishes…because you thought it would be a good idea to wait until you ran out of mugs before doing the dishes. P.S. Dear Dishwasher, come back to me!

2. Coming home and not discovering that someone surprise washed your dishes…because you live alone/are fiercely independant.

3. Defending the fact that scrambled eggs and toast for dinner counts as cooking.

4. Realizing that maybe you should learn how to cook something that’s not a form of eggs.

5. Waking up to your car buried in snow… because you live in Canada and no longer have a garage.

6. Having to wake up early so you have time to dig your car out of the winter tundra before work.

7. Dropping a pen and realizing that no one’s cleaned back there…ever.

8. Not being able to blame the hair in the shower on someone else.

9. Endless loads of laundry.

10. Being reminded that you started a load of laundry before you went to bed…because you were awoken by the crazy loud buzzer you can’t figure out how to disable.