Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Tilting the description

1. I walked into my kitchen, and just stopped for a second and just looked around. This was the room that is the most lived-in and where everything happened, and it was definitely beginning to show the wear and tear of all that living. The warm, sun-kissed brown of the cupboards once kept the room feeling friendly and inviting, but now just make it look old and worn. On top of the fridge in one of the five crystal vases, the bright, sunshine- yellow daffodils add extra color and brightness to the room seriously lacking in life and color. Besides the daffodils, the top of the refrigerator is full of other plants and crystal vases in various shapes and sizes, mismatched and uncertain. The almond-colored refrigerator itself is full of old school pictures, including the bad ones, the ones that should be hidden away, out of sight. Everyone has a picture like that, with half-closed eyes or a bad smile that mothers everywhere, for some unknown, incredibly humiliating reason, just insist on displaying for the world to see. Colorful, unique magnets from past trips and vacations dot the fridge here and there, holding up important papers that should really be kept elsewhere, where they won’t get lost and ruined, and bright, vivid pictures drawn in elementary art classes at school that look as young and immature as the artists who drew them Toward the bottom of the fridge is a basketball sized red, black, and white magnet advertising Florida State that looks completely out of place in this kitchen. The countertops around the kitchen are continually cluttered with baskets, flowers, bills, and letters of various shapes, sizes, and colors. This clutter makes the room look messy and unkempt, like someone forgot to clean it for about three weeks. . It’s a messy room and certainly isn’t the normal idea of perfection. The dog can often be found wandering around in here, waiting for someone to pet his soft, silky fur or scratch behind his floppy ears, which consequently leaves dog hair scattered around the kitchen; on the floors and furniture, making the room truly as dirty as it looks.

5 comments:

Brocksworth said...

Hello there,
I am quite certain that your impression in that you do not like what a mess the kitchen seems to be in. I think you used some terrific words to give your impression. Words such as lacking, messy, and immature. Fanfreakingtastic job.

Brocksworth said...

Hello there,
I am quite certain that your impression in that you do not like what a mess the kitchen seems to be in. I think you used some terrific words to give your impression. Words such as lacking, messy, and immature. Fanfreakingtastic job.

Deana said...

I agree that the dominant impression seems to be that it is messy and maybe needs a little updating, but that in general, it is a friendly chaos because the mess and dirt come from a happy family.

Travis said...

I get the impression that the kitchen is out of date and somewhat embarrassing. You get the idea that someone used to keep the area fun and friendly, but either that person mooved out, or stopped caring about the entertainment value of the fridge.

luke said...

Holy cow, you went all out compared to what I wrote. While it was lengthy, I found it enjoyable because it seemed like you were really describing something that you had been familiar with for your entire life. I kind of find it hard to identify a dominant impression, but that isn't limited to your writing - I just don't read like that.