notre dame, my house, displacement theory

well, faithful readers, it's been an incredibly long two weeks and i feel that i have much to share, even though i don't do much of the what's-happening-in-my-life stuff. i guess the main thing is that i moved into my parents' home. i'd lived in that lovely duplex for almost exactly a year, and to save money i decided to move back* into my parents' home which, as felicity would have it, is three blocks away. that actually doesn't have anything do to with actual felicity but i wanted to use that word. so you probably thought you learned a new word just now but i used it wrong. ha.

*i didn't actually ever live in this house because they moved into it after i had already moved into my duplex. so i can't really move "back" into it, at all.

actually i wanted to share some observations about my new abode compared to my other one. (while writing this i typed out "adobe" instead of "abode" like three times.) for anyone who doesn't know, my new home is filled to the brim with seven people not including me. two of those people are completely displaced because the basement, including their bedroom-in-the-making, isn't yet finished. so that displacement results in them and their stuff spilling over, into the rest of the house. most of the spillage is contained in the basement, but jim's clothes are in johanna's closet, there are a few ill-placed bookshelves and endtables and lamps here and there, and there are several bins of what appears to be laundry (actually, joshua's clothes) scattered in odd places. i guess now he has a good excuse for wearing what he does: he honestly couldn't find anything else.

one good thing is: the colors i picked out for painting my room turned out really well. especially now that most of my furniture is moved in, it's looking really really good. (pictures will appear when all is arranged and decorated.) one wall is a kind of grayish teal -- "Beguile" -- and the other walls are a grey-beige color -- "Notre Dame." now according to more versed connoisseurs of college football, i should NOT support any connections or relations to the team called Notre Dame. at first i thought it was because they are catholic, but it turns out there is somthing worse than being catholic: being a good football team. instead of irking those connoisseurs (i've always said it's never good to irk a connoisseur) i decided that the color shall be pronounced "noch-ra dohm" instead of "note-er dayme." this satisfies the many potential problems associated with having three walls dedicated to a football team that no one likes.

there are some things i'll have to get used to, being back under a roof with seven other people. these things include being spied upon by my youngest sister, being barged in on in the bathroom (i lock doors now), having windows, a pink Rubber Ducky in the shower, five other individual menus of shampoos and soaps in the same shower, the ever-present sounds of Murder, She Wrote and Perfect Dark (and Slappers Only) reverberating through the house, and the not-unrelated need to sleep with earplugs and an eye mask. oh yeah...and to be fair, it won't take long to get used to a cup of coffee and a fresh breakfast quiche eagerly offered me in the morning before work, the feeling of being much closer to my family, and, oh yeah...let's not forget the utter lack of rent/utility/food bills each month.

in the last couple of weeks i've also bought a new camera which, if you spend any time at all near me, you probably already know because i have been carrying it around like a needy infant. i have been extremely tired because i've had a million little things to do, and i get distracted easily. also the park, and nature in general, beckon more loudly now that i am able to capture their beauty more accurately with my new camera. so that makes it much easier, and much more enjoyable, to not get things done.

i'm also trying to sell some things on eBay. mostly some used CDs and books. you should all buy them.