Over the years
this has changed, but to me when I think of someplace safe I think my bathroom.
With a family it’s the only room in the house that when the door is close it
stays closed, no one ever forgets to knock. When the door is closed and the air
vent is on you can’t hear anything going in the house, you feel like you have
the whole house to yourself. The room is large giving you plenty of room to
move around even if the whole family is in there at the same time. When you
first walk through the door looking to the left you see the shower curtain
pulled back the only time that it isn’t is when you are in the shower. The
shower is always cluttered with too many shampoo and conditioner bottles, I
have 3 different razors and 5 kinds of soap. It’s clean enough but never really
clean.
Looking around you
see white wainscoting and chocolate brown walls, the space is in desperate need
of art work to give the room some kind of feeling. When you look out the window
you can see right into our neighbor's bathroom window, this made us put up a semi
see-through window cling. I wish I had a complete eco-friendly bathroom but the
only thing that we could afford was a dual flush toilet, now that we have it I really
don’t like.
Right next to the door on the right is our sink;
on the left side is a floor to ceiling cabinet next is an average sized sink with
a small counter on the right. We are especially good job keeping that space pretty
clean; on the counter you can find a giant bottle of gummy vitamins for
Garrett, hand soap and large jug of body lotion. The part of the bathroom that
I like best is the floor; it’s gold, brown and tan, 70’s style mosaic tile. The
tile might be the reason I’m dragging my feet on a remodel of the room.
This starts strong, but then you get into details and, interesting as you make the details (and you do; you know how to take inconsequentials like soap and tiles and give them some juice) but nothing can ever be as interesting as the human interest, the stuff that focuses on you and not on things, and that focus you mostly abandon after the first half of graf 1.
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