137 Up

I will never forget this house! It is dear to me in my memories. It has long since been torn down, along with most of the other houses on College Ave, because it was just old and falling apart. Thank goodness I have pictures! It was not a bad little house for our college days, that's for sure. And there I am on the porch, sitting on my favorite piece of furniture!

Here are some pictures of the inside of our house at 137 Up, College Avenue. This was my bedroom my first year in the house. That TV was just for looks, it never worked. For some reason I thought it was neat to have a TV in the bedroom--I'm sure it's because we never had that growing up. I loved my room, but I had a roommate that...required a lot of patience. I have always, always, always loved clean, and I have always, always, always struggled when I have had to live with people who just will not be clean. Heidi, bless her heart, had to put up with my clean freakishness as much as I had to put up with her messiness. She had the top bunk, and it was always piled with clothes and all kinds of other things that refused to just...stay up. So her things were always spilling down, hanging over into my bottom bunk space, from both sides of the bed. Oh those were trying times for me! And I'm sure they were for her as well, because I'm sure she did not appreciate being asked multiple times to please, please, please keep her things UP. We just both needed our own space, that's all. Ha ha!

I lived in this house for three years, and the furniture was arranged a lot of different ways during that time. Here's one of the ways. That couch under the window is the couch I remember as being our front porch couch. The border around the top of the room was Sheri's brain child. We went to the craft store and got this decorative paper strip, and she hot glued it all around both sections of the living room. I must admit, it was pretty clever! (And yes, I am old enough that that rabbit eared TV console was a working TV for us. It was old, even then, but it did work).

Here the couch is on the wall that the living room shared with the kitchen, and there I am studying. We all loved having that chalk board in the house!

After work one day...