I am once again in the ancestral homeland. Actually, that is a lie. The many unfounded assumptions I have about who my ancestors were (i.e. Ghangas Kong AND Attila the Hun) would certainly be shaken by the revelation that they actually wanted to live in Richmond Virginia.
I am, however, once again in the childhood homeland. After two years of low-rez, fuzzy apartment living; with slim cuisine, slimy counters, and other alliterative adjectives, this place seems like a wonderland. First off, it's a house. Second off, they have a yard, which is something of a myth in the greater chicago area. Thirdly, there is, like, beverage here. All the time. We're talking high quality juice people. Juice!
In this new world I find myself, a world viewed through the hardened lens of apartment living, a place that can afford continual supplies of juice is a place of significant wealth and grandeur. First thing I do when I go to a person's residence now is surreptitiously check their refrigerator. If I see juice, I give my companions significant looks and move my eyebrows around, as if to say: "We've struck gold. These people are LOADED."
Really, I've just come to appreciate the inherent stability of a family. Whenever I enter a house in which a family lives, I feel the difference as a palpable thing. It's like I just passed through a curtain. Outside is instability and dog-eat-dog craziness, inside is order, well being, and juice.
In conclusion, my title has made me think of a new pickup line*: "Hey baby, you be major tom, and ill be ground control. Together we can explore."
*All pickup lines read on Falcomatic.blogspot.com are NEVER to be used. Ever.
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8 comments:
hahahaha I was laughing out loud at this entry. And it is so true...real homes are so rare and wonderful. right on.
I miss backyards.
Major Tom died in space after his exploration mission failed. That's a bad pick-up line.
Anisa said it before me.
And kudos on nailing the home-is-having-juice verity. Nicely done, sir.
That is why I offered the disclaimer anisa/andrew! Andrewisa.
Robbie,
Our new home has 3 kinds of juice currently. That would make us, like, billionaires, eh?
Patrick
Yeah and shoot, have you ever been to Jon's? Like 7 kinds of pure, wholesome, organic juices and nectars at all times. That's living it up.
oh my... blimey. i have definately considered the juice phenomenon before. thats so great.... its so true.... juice wealth.... juice was always taken for granted before living solo... but now i know the truth.
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