City of Brotherly Love

I am in Philadelphia! I like this city. I find it pleasing. I’m here for work and the hotel kind of ran out of rooms so I ended up with a room that ALSO DOUBLES AS A CONFERENCE ROOM OMG. It has…

*a murphy bed! MURPHY BED Y’ALL. It comes DOWN FROM A WALL. Like from the future, or perhaps, from the past.

*living room! LIVING ROOM Y’ALL! Ok fine, it’s not a separate ROOM per se, but there’s a coffee table, a love seat and, like, 3 big ass chairs. They are plaid. I don’t know how I feel about that. I’d like to meet an interior decorator for this hotel. I have a lot of questions.

*breakfast nook! BREAKFAST NOOK! Like a little table with two chairs next to a window.

*TWO CLOSETS

*A LARGE DESK

*windows on TWO walls

*AN UGLY CHANDELIER

Dude I don’t even know what to do with myself. I just ran across the room twice just to have the experience of running indoors. When was the last time I ran around indoors? I don’t even know. In my apartment, it takes two steps to walk from the door to the bed. It takes two steps to walk from the bed to the bathroom. I can take, at least, twenty steps in this PALACE. If the decorating wasn’t so heinous I would totally live here.

One day I will grow up and live like a grown-up in which a door separates where I eat and where I sleep.

4 Responses to “City of Brotherly Love”

  1. brett:

    you should invite some friends over and have a soccer game in there, fly a kite, and fill the closets with clothes from the local Salvation Army…

  2. jon:

    Philly uses heinous decorations to deter visitors who have totally binged on their open spaces and brotherly love from moving there and eating all their food.

  3. rado:

    hello
    i just finished reading your book. i gobbled it down in a day, and fell in love with your family. i was sad at the end :( so now i ll follow you…. beware i lobe blogs and bloggers . i have a culinary one but it s in french : blogging in 2 languages was too hard for me.

    Thanks Annie, and soon you’ll be like : Ayooo here she is reading me again, about me LOL!

  4. annie:

    Brett: It would actually be totally awesome to fill a hotel closet with clothes and then leave. Sounds very artsy pants.

    Jon: I totally ate Philadelphia cream cheese in Philadelphia. MIND BLOW.

    Rado: Thanks Rado! Your blog looks tasty! Everything looks tastier in French.

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