There is something in the air tonight
August 6th, 2008 byNo matter where you go
you’ll never find your way home
you’ll never find your way home
no matter where you go
-Travis (scottish band)
Ofcourse, Travis has never been treated to the fantastic smell of onions frying that immediately converts any place into a home.
Now that your loved one is frying onions, what are you supposed to do?
This: sneak into the kitchen, distract said cook, wildly grab the boiling hot golden brown onions and stuff them in your mouth. Please remember to avoid the angry spatula of the cook, the mad hot oil drops flying in the air and be prepared for your eyes to roll in delight at this savory stolen snack. Any injuries you incur will be considered Scars Of War.
What helps you change a place into a home?
August 7th, 2008 at 3:16 am
What helps you change a place into a home?
unpacking books, and then shelving them wildly, ostensibly without any organization or thought behind it.
and sitting down and eating oranges together, sticky juice running down our arms.
and add in some ice cream, too. home is where there’s always some kind of ice cream in the freezer.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:29 am
two more things, because i remembered this post the other day:
1.chapli kabob
2.fruit trees, lots of them
that is all.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
@yasmine – home is where the chapli kabob is?
August 15th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Home = You.
August 16th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
adnan,
of course!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
i heart fried onions.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
i travel a little for work each week, to the same client; i tend to stay in the same hotel or two. all the rooms are the same but slightly different, so every week i find myself in a new but eerily similar home to the one i had last week. And as most business travelers do, I have my own methods of makign a hotel room a “home.”
- turn the lever on the door — last thing you ever want is someone (housekeeping, another guest given the same room, a serial killer) being able to enter the room if they got a key
- if 2 double beds (and just 1 me): suitcase goes on one bed, the one closer to the bathroom.
- hurl laptop and papers to attend to onto the desk, or if i wanna be working on a couch or bed, onto the bed.
- kick shoes off
- find out what the internet situation is; connect
- change into PJ’s & flipflops
- bring toiletries into bathroom
- tie up hair and wash face
- find comedy central on TV; if no comedy central, then TBS, or nothing – listen to music instead.
I know, isn’t it fascinating?
I didn’t realize I had this routine until I went on a trip with 3 other people, and started doing my thing – luggage up, shoes off, toiletries out, internet on…
so apparently home for me = comfortable clothes+internet (wireless? *angels sing* )
=) sounds good.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:11 am
anjum, i lowved your comment. it was fascinating! thank you for sharing that. =)