Some Of The Things I Dream About

• by GeekMan • In Experiments •   3
Unpacking
Six weeks of living out of filthy, plastic covered cardboard boxes is about all I can take before the bodies start to pile up. Right now we’re doing laundry once a week because all we have handy is one week’s worth of clothing. Just yesterday, as I rode the train, two people put spare change into my cup of hot chocolate and a homeless bum took pity on me and gave me directions to a shelter. Funny thing, the soup was really good.
 
Cooking
Never thought I’d miss making a mess on the stove and washing dishes, but by golly, I do. Every time I think about how wonderful a home cooked dinner would be I just have to glance over at the giant pile of rubbish that was once a kitchen and all my hopes and dreams come crashing down around me. Sometimes, when I’m home alone, I even ‘play chef’ by walking around the “kitchen” and pretending to cook. I even make my own chopping and sizzling sound effects. BAM!
 
Furniture
We’ve sold just about all the big furniture items we used to own and now we don’t have a chair to sit on, a table to eat at or even a TV to watch. Which brings me to…
 
Television
We haven’t watched TV at home since the week before we moved into this apartment. I’ve missed the final weeks of The Amazing Race, the whole fricking football pre-season and the opening three weeks of football. Some nights we get withdrawal so bad we actually wander the streets and spy on other people in their homes as they sit on their couches and watch TV. Hey, here’s and interesting tidbit you might not be aware of. Did you know that entire neighborhoods could get a restraining order against someone? Well, now you know.

Tomorrow there will be pictures for you. Please, be gentile with your mockery.

3 Comments

  1. Oooooooooooooooh! This is like Designer’s Challenge Extreme Home Makeover Debbie Travis’ Painted Room by Room While You Were Out Home to Go Divine Design Fix It Up Sensible Chic Decorating Cents This Small Space Weekend (actually 3 weeks) Warriors Designing for the Sexes (ahem) New Spaces Kitchen Accomplished and Survivor ALL ROLLED INTO ONE!

    Oh, and um…. just in case you missed it on TV Mrs. Alabama won Mrs. America.

  3. Five weeks after the move-in, we’re apparently better off than you, because we’ve found both the television AND the kitchen. We have not however, found the remote controls, and so, have reverted to the most antiquated method of channel changing: making the children do it. I’ve actually withdrawn the youngest child from school to employ him full-time as my chief channel changer. Oh, and the end of The Amazing Race was, well, amazing. Just so you know.

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