Pajer - Journal #2 - September 22

Word Count:  337

Journal 2: Your neighborhood-either at FGCU or at your childhood home. Use all of your senses to describe the things you care about and that you notice.

             My childhood home is about twenty minutes away from where I live today. It was a nice: three bedrooms, a master bed room, two baths, living room, family room, dining room. It wasn’t huge but very homey. To the back of the house was a preserve with a forest of trees and shrubbery. It was one of those houses and communities which you knew your neighbors and very calm and laid back kind of setting. My home now is a bit larger, and after ten years of living here finally feels more like home. It doesn’t normally smell bad; it use to smell like a dog at times and had tumble weeds of dog hair. But we lost our dog last year to heart disease. So we have most of the hair out of the pool and house now. The house has a rather large yard for a gated community, and it sits on the biggest single lot as well. My room is devoted more or less to a few good Beatles and Pink Floyd posters and I have a nice collection of vinyl albums to complement that. We (my brother, sometimes his girlfriend, me, my girl friend, and our dad) painted the inside of the whole house which took us a good chunk of the summer to paint. We also had crown molding installed which my dad wanted since we moved in but, things take forever to get done in my family. So we just had it installed and the house looks ten times better, classy, and richer, with a bit of depth. Last year seems to have been the first year we got our house into order too because we have this middle room in between mine and my brother’s room and for the first time in a long time we aren’t just using it for old storage.