Since Friday, April 23, 2009 I have not been inside my house due to renovation, well actually the only two exceptions are the garage and the bathroom, but other than that, nothing’s livable. I can’t sleep in my own warm and cozy bedroom, I can’t sit around and watch television in the living room, and I can’t cook stuff in the kitchen until everything is completely finished and free of poisonous fumes.
My siblings that live with me are currently staying at their significant other’s/in-law’s houses. My parents and I, on the other hand, have not moved at all. Believe it or not, we’ve been doing everywhere we typically do in the house, right outside of the house.
This is the result of being too poor to book a hotel…the result of having Vietnamese parents who have never assimilated into American living culture…and the result of not having a boyfriend with a place to crash:
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Our sink for hand washing!
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Our kitchen sink for dish washing!
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Our dish dryer rack for dish drying!
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Our stove for meal cooking!
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Our bathroom for getting stuck in!
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And this is where I sleep…in the garage!
I swear these aren’t pictures from random spots of third world countries, this has been my way of living for the past two weeks. For the first couple of days of living like this, I really hated it, especially sleeping in there with all of the insects, and wearing the same clothes most of the time (left my clothes in the drawers, drawers is sealed tight with multiple sheets of thick plastic, I didn’t know!), but I don’t mind it all now, and hey, ‘least we still have a shower.
