Happy Birthday!

[averygoodun42]

First, Happy Birthday, Larilee! I hope it's wonderful and relaxing and gratifying and generally good. You deserve it!


Second, I thought I'd do the fridayfiver today (to remind myself that it is, in fact, Friday).
1) Tell us about where you live:
2) If you could change one thing about your home, what would it be?
3) Do you do laundry on a regular schedule?
4) Describe the place that you sleep:
5) This morning: was it easy or difficult to start the day?

1. The summers are hot and humid,although nothing like the midwest (it rarely gets about 95 here, last summer excepted) and the winters are 6-7 months long, although varying in intensity. First winter (four years ago) was horrid, horrid, horrid, but last winter was almost mild. The best thing about here is Fall. We get it. We get at least a month, more like 1.5 months, of beautiful, mild, crisp weather and lovely fall foliage (conditions permitting).

2. Although tempted to say the kitchen, I think I would get better insulation. It's crap, and winters here get cold.

3. Schedule? Me? No. I do laundry when I can't avoid it anymore (and preferably before DH gets to it, since his bachelor laundry habits have only gotten worse since we married.)

4. The walls are... salmon swirls of varying intensity, like thunderheads at sunset. The ceiling is night sky blue with hints of stellar clouds. The trim is opulantly flecked with gold and my bed is cream and red. It is my romantic getaway, and the only place I'm not practical first.

5. I went to bed WAAAAAAY too late last night (sleep happened around 3:30ish), so it was more difficult than not. No bad dreams, though, so that's good!

Comments

[zalena.livejournal.com]

1. I live in a trailer park, that while very nice (lots of trees, next to a nature path, etc) has low-income residents with assorted problems including drug-use/dealing and domestic violence. (Both of those things have decreased through out the years.) The most colorful resident on the block is a veteran who has a dog aptly named "Satan." He's always yelling at the dog and telling it to be quiet, "Shut up, Satan!" The neighborhood is heavily Latino, there are always tamales and zacatecas sellers coming by, and people from the Spanish-speaking pentecostal church that meets in a store front a block away knock on doors to evangelize. (And are usually taken aback when I answer the door.)

2. I would do something about the wall-covering, which is paper in the kitchen and bathrooms, and plasticized in the living room and bedrooms.

3. I don't plan to do laundry on a schedule, but it happens on weekends by necessity. I barely have enough clothes to make it through the week.

4. My big, empty, bedroom, in my big, empty, bed. It is one of the first times in my life I have had a space that is just for resting, and that's really nice.

5. Woke up at 5:30, but didn't want to go to work.

[larilee.livejournal.com]

Thank you!