My new house is so rad. I went from an expensive 1 bedroom dank little apartment to this virtual palace! By virtual palace, I mean that it is drafty, dusty, flawed & PERFECT! It is a really old 3 bedroom, 2 story house in West Oakland…I am straight street, yo!
My roommate & I have similar insane qualities, so things have been meshing fairly well as far as the arrangement of the house is concerned. We even have an entire room dedicated to musical instruments, complete with 3 accordions, 1 banjo, 1 clarinet, 1 guitar & 1 player piano. The piano is actually a fairly recent addition to the household…
Stan: (as I am walking to the front door) “Don’t be mad, but I bought something for the house.”
Me: “um…ok – what is it?!”
Yeah, he bought a player piano, on a whim…completely out of tune, but that adds to its charm in my opinion.
My buck-toothed Dachshund Mathilda is in heaven running around this big ol’ house & the cat is constantly finding new spots to hide. They especially love hanging out in the backyard (by “yard”, I mean dirt farm).
The best part of my neighborhood is the guy who practices his roller blading in front of the house. We spotted him for the first time last weekend, so we opened the window & blasted the Meatloaf Bat out of Hell record I had just bought at a thrift store. It just seemed natural that he needed that very accompaniment.
Stay tuned for a big West O housewarming BLOWOUT!!
