The closer I come to my 30th birthday, the more excited I'm starting to feel. Which is totally surprising me. I can't think of anything I'm leaving behind, expect maybe good intentions, incomplete projects, and lots of slept in beds. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I imagine every bed I've slept in for more than two week's time. You should try making your own list--no matter how old you are, it makes you feel like your life has already lasted for miles and miles and miles.
Slept-in-Beds (two weeks or more)
Childhood bedroom Indiana
Basement guestroom (with termites!) in aunt's rowhouse Bridgeport, Chicago
Mint in the backyard, oatmeal in the mornings grandparent's house Indiana
Sun tea on the porch, watermelon in the creek lakehouse Sturgis, Michigan
Dorm rooms, various Indiana
Haight-Ashbury Victorian, summer internship San Francisco
10th and Waverly walk-up, across from Nine Lives Bookshop Greenwich Village
NYU dorm, by the farmer's market Union Square
Loft above the Civic Theater with a huge vintage vault, Green House with slugs in the garden, blue house by the river Indiana
House by the arboretum, house with rats in the basement, co-op by the doughnut shop, Seattle
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Mine is pretty boring. I think it's just been:
childhood homes
college dorm rooms
apartment in bloomington
apartment in south bend
apartment in Seattle
Damn, yours is cool.
hmm...
1. room with orange walls, phoenix
2. a townhouse for a difficult year, phoenix
3. room with pink walls, phoenix
4. room with a really tall bed, phoenix
5. a traveling room, my grandparent's rv for a summer
6. dorm room, house, apartment, apartment, tempe
7. green, dank basement apartment in kirkland
8. pill hill apartment, seattle
9. a london flat - rats, fleas, old man sunday dinner smell
10. apartment on olive - a freeway for a backyard
11. condo on a hill - cherry blossoms, roof-top views, a place to call our own
I got started, and had to finish, but the list is too long for a blog comment... here you go, anyway:
1) childhood captain's bed with drawers underneath and a shelf for books and treasures (outside Detroit, MI)
2) various bunk beds in various dorm rooms in Christian spin-off commune-like campus (N. Indiana)
3) budget townhouse-- same captain's bed (South Bend, IN)
4) high school house-- suburban ranch in a development that was named after what it once was: Northfield (Granger, IN)
5) freshman dorm (Muncie, IN)
6) cross between a dorm and an apartment, shared bathrooms and kitchen (Oxford, England)
7) sublet from professor, including all his furniture (and the bed in question, which had a tacky gold-chromed headboard), two cats and his college-aged daughter (Muncie)
8) weird cobbled together long skinny house with endless insect infestations (Muncie)
9) community house connected to a church that I didn't attend at the time (Muncie)
10) apartment shared with English graduate student (Buffalo, NY)
11) old house filled with junk from previous tenants (Buffalo)
12) summer in a room with not enough light, but with good friends (Muncie)
13) a few years in a tall peeling wooden house across from the white river (Muncie)
14) first apartment as a married woman, French doors overlooking synagogue (Muncie)
15) second apartment-- same house as you!-- dreamiest backyard (Muncie)
16) right here-- ground floor of a farmhouse in Ballard (Seattle)
Whew! Who's gonna read all that?
Wow, these are awesome! I think I should start a slept in beds blog now!
Gotta play this one too...
1. Childhood 1: Next to the window, front of the house that our found cat Frank (Zappa, for his moustache) emerged through, Elletsville, IN
2. Childhood 2: Converted Porch/Screen Room, wood slated, light on night, fear of local devil worshipers. Linton, IN
3. Childhood 3: One home: Phase 1- unfinished house, basement room with 4 beds - my parents, my twin sisters, and myself at the end. We jump from bed to bed. Phase 2: Upstairs, new beige carpet, new white paint, new double bed, and the invention of CDs, Bloomfield, IN
4. College 1: Dorm bunk way up, middle of the room, Ball State U.
5. College 2: Duplex up, double bed from home, Dali poster, Muncie, IN
6. Summer at home: Same double bed, coverted 'adult-like' basement, hunter green walls.
7. College 3: Apartment up, white room, window to roof, double bed again.downtown Muncie.
8. College 4: Single mattress on the hardwood floor of a dining room , Muncie, IN.
9. College 5: Solo dingy apt, wood panel walls, humongous turntable cabinet, infamous double bed, Muncie, IN.
10. College 6: Upstairs, fake gothic house, slanted roof, ole double bed, Muncie, IN
11. Internship: Slept in a turret on a blow-up mattress, Buffalo, NY
12. College 7: Downstairs, lacy curtains, turretish, built in cabinets, double again, Muncie, IN
13.. College 5: 2nd floor, huge room (14'x30")w/slanted floor, 6' hexagon window, double bed me. Muncie, IN.
14. College 6: Orange room, hanging plant, single bed my roommate was born on, Muncie, IN.
15. Bungalow front room, windowed out, double bed, Muncie, IN
16. Community house, upstairs, various roommates/bedmates, double bed, Muncie, IN.
17. 20's apartment, brightest street light ever, new forever bedmate, new queen bed, Muncie, IN.
18. By the river, upstairs, airy curtains, monochromatic, queen bed, Muncie, IN
19. Crying babies, alley light, cozy new queen bed, Seattle, WA
Yes!
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