7. What's it like to live in a house with 5 guys?
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http://www.ilikesean.com there are pics of my house,
my friends, places i go, things i do and a lot of you.
there was a short time that i lived by myself. i think it was about
six months, from moving out of my parents house, until i ended
up with housemates. since then, i have always lived in a cooperative
situation. a few times a week we cook together, we clean the house
once a week together, we shop for food together (for the few times
that i eat at home)
most of the time they have been dry, semi-straight edge houses.
i use tobacco, one of the boys eats meat, things like that. most
of the time, we move together as a group. its not always just guys,
there is a punk rock girl or two that has been in the mix over
the years, but for the most its a house full of guys. as i type this
on a laptop, there is a band in my living room and i think that
we are all going to eat tofu scrabble burritos. after that, one of
the boys is going to help someone with his car and i have to
go with the other boy to his business that he owns and help him
with some contracts. ( i know about LOI now)
i really like living in a cooperative. its a ideal of community in
certain aspects. sometimes its a little much when you want a
quite place to watch a movie alone, like when i came home to
find the entire band ?the exploited? in my living room, i think
that last week it was ?go to hell?, and it makes me think that i
really dont need to do this and i can afford to not live here. but
then there are other moments that i like the fact that we can
provide, as group, for each member and for others. we also have
an open home to our community of friends. this is the house
that everyone gets together to watch movies. we have dinner
parties over here a few times a year. when there is a holiday,
and there are people in town that do not have family here, they
come to my place and we all cook together and have a meal.
so for about nineteen years now, i have lived in a household
full of people, four different towns, two different states. at one
point i even moved an entire household of boys from california
to texas. one day i might grow up and get my own room.
he is not really that hard
tv party tonight, tv party tonight.. we got nothing better to do
he spends a lot of time on his hair
i like orange
and buliding lofts. its kind of like having a fort to sleep in
sometimes the houses are a little 70's
that loft really didnt work out well
holiday potluck. i made everyone wear ice hockey jerseys
we end up with a lot of food sometimes
its hard to make your dining room look like your grandmas
thanksgiving morning
desert potluck
she got married and decided to move.
party in the yard
we used to live above the tattoo shop of course
and there are always lots of stickers on stuff
if you ever need a couch to crash on in santa cruz, you can always have ours