So Bright!
Posted in Life on April 2nd, 2010 | 6 Comments »Yay for the holidays. Yeah, it’s only Easter, but it gives me an excuse to go home. And gets me away from classes.
My parents moved into their current house the summer I graduated from high school. I only lived in my room for 3 months, so I don’t really consider it my room. Some of my things are in there, but the room is just a place for me to sleep. I hate the room.
I guess my mom was trying to make it more of my room, but the fact is, I’m never going to live at home anymore, so I don’t care what they do with the room. Just as long as they make it a room. Well, ever since I came home for Christmas, my mom has been nagging me to pick a color. I picked a color the first day. A dark plum. Not too dark, but rich, bold, COLORFUL. That woman is afraid of color. She’s only painted shades of white since she’s owned a house. For four months she asked me to pick another color, and I told her she needed to suck it up and embrace color. Finally she did.
You know what’s funny? She LOVES the room. It’s not dark, but comforting. It actually feels like a room in the house, now, not an afterthought. And, she finally bought my other sister a queen bed. (she gave her MY queen bed when we moved, since I was going off to college, I didn’t need it) So, now I don’t have to sleep on a kid’s twin size bed anymore with my feet hanging off the end.
It’s sooo amazing. Even though there is absolutely nothing in that room except the bed, (not even a comfortor on the bed, literally just the bed) it actually feels comforting. Odd, no?
Now the only thing that’s wrong is the room faces the east. So, the sun is quite a bother. There are these big, chunky, blinds on the windows, and they keep the privacy, yes, but don’t block the sun. Even with the dark paint, it is incredibly bright in there. So, it wakes me up. Now that she’s embraced color, well, maybe taken the first step to embracing color, I’m going to talk her into those cloth roller blinds. That way, even though the sun will shine through, it won’t send patchy streaks of sunlight to blind my face at the crack of dawn.
What color is your room?
Yes, at times I fail epically.



