Noticing My Patterns
I caught myself criticizing my home the other day. In all honesty, it's not an unusual occurrence. I live in a double-wide and I feel self-conscious about this fact sometimes. Our double-wide, like all double-wide's, is a long rectangle. It's difficult to furnish and feel comfortable in rooms that are long and rectangular. They're just the wrong shape for living. The washing machine and dryer take up most of the space that is also used as an entry into the house, meaning that clean clothes inevitably end up falling onto a very dirty floor and that floor is always dirty, even right after I clean it because shoes are dirty. The kitchen cupboards and counters and drawers are not a standard size. Actually, everything is double-wide sized. I could go on and on about what I hate about this house. The ugly mauve flower print on the kitchen walls. The cramped bathroom. The ugly stripe pattern on the bathroom walls. The walls themselves, which are little more than glorified car
