Someplace like home

[kjpepper]

A bit of context, my mood right now can only be described as morose. Partly cause I had my usual miniscule amount of alcohol at lysscat's party (it really is ridiculous how little it takes to rob me of my coordination). Partly other stuff. And I just had a scalding hot, steamy shower, so lack of oxygen might also be contributing.

Anyway, I was standing under all that water and steam kinda wishing for a place tucked way away in bumblefuckland, a big, old fashioned rambly and cozy farmhouse on enough land to say "pfff, what neighbors?" Someplace quiet, with lots of farm cats, light during the day and stars at night, furnished with comfy mostly secondhand furniture, bookshelves a go-go, quite the library of movies and the obligatory, half functional original Nintendo (among other systems) hooked up to the TV. Someplace where not only I could find peace, but welcome and open to whomever needed the space for whatever reason - time alone for the weekend, time and quiet to heal from a broken heart or spirit, whatever. I wished someplace like that existed, and not just for me. And then I thought, well, maybe that would be someplace I'd like to have someday, a big old place where the door was always open, the kettle was always on for cocoa and tea, and if you were willing to pitch in with the helping and the dishes, dinner would always be delicious. Yeah, I'd definitely like a place like that, I think. It'd be like having a friends and family only bed and breakfast for the price of helping with the upkeep in some way during their stay.

*sigh* right now though, I wish there was some place like that for me.

Comments

[sundart.livejournal.com]

...and the smell of fresh bread being baked by your loving wife. ;) Yeah, let's do it.

[htl-1126.livejournal.com]

I would be visiting and helping.

[morlock.livejournal.com]

and here i thougth the white chicks wanted to be the country bumpkins and the black kids wanted to be city mice ;p

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

did I mention anything about raising cats, cattle, chickens, bunnies or goats? all right then.

Seriously, I could do either extreme. Either I have to be in a city with enough people around to disappear in, or I need somewhere in the country where no one's around to give a shit what we're doing.

I don't do livestock though. :P

[morlock.livejournal.com]

ok... well i think it sounds nice anyways.