Wot My Bedroom Is Like.

Here's a fun fact for you: I'm not currently living in my bedroom. Me and some mates are housesitting for another friend of ours who's away in America and whose parents are... somewhere. But telling you about someone else's room in someone else's house in the open internet is a bit weird. Instead, I will use these pictures of my room which I took right before I left.

So. My bedroom is a 4-ish by 5-ish metre room on the second storey of my family's house. This means it has an awesome slanted roof, but it gets very very hot in the summer. I moved into this room when I turned 12. Before that, I shared a room with my younger brother. I have replaced none of the furniture since I moved in, so it's all still the blue-and-silver stuff I thought was cool when I was 12.

This is my bed, and my spare bookshelf full of reference books, and my Dalek poster, and the pictures I pulled out of an astronomy calendar, and a floor lamp.  As you can see by the window, it is night time. Or at least, it was when I took the pictures. I tend to keep my window open otherwise the room heats up like the pits of hades. On the windowsill is a pot plant. Both the pot and the plant are from Ikea.

This is my desk. It's actually a dining table, from Ikea, but I've never used it for anything but a desk. Until recently, it was home to Stickers, the laptop I got when I started high school. Then my brother had a party, and Biscuitron the Magnificent from the living room got moved up here for 'safekeeping'. It's mine now. Also on the desk are some pens and some keys and some lamp and some mug.

To the left of the desk is a clothes rack. From Ikea. This picture also shows off my Wall Wot Has All My Posters On, and my sexy awesome slanting roof. In the bottom left corner you can see my uni backpack. On the bottom right you can see Blue Thing (as the guys at uni have taken to calling it), a blue zip-up polar fleece which I bought for fourteen dollars which is the closest thing I have to a trademark item.

To the right of the desk is the storage. From top to bottom, left to right: A set of in-trays, containing toys and stationery. Top metal drawer is pens and junk. Middle drawer is computer peripherals. Bottom drawer is hundreds of CDs and DVDs, a dozen odd DV tapes, and a lonely floppy disk. White chest of drawers in the middle is shorts and socks and pyjamas and such. Trolley shelf thing on the right is PAPERWORKS because I am an ADULT. Also uni notebooks from last year, and some more stationery.

You have already seen the contents of the right bookshelf. The left bookshelf is all kids books, mostly in series. Also in this photo are more photos, a bunch of movie tickets, and my high school leavers jacket. Oh, and the door. There's also a door.

So now you know where I am not currently living for the next few weeks! For bonus content, this is what happens when you leave a bunch of nineteen-year-olds in a house by themselves...

This is where I keep my stuff

The slightly creepy but entirely adorable bear on my wall welcomes you to my room! Before we begin this tour, it is advised that you keep your fingers on the left mouse button and your eyes on the screen for safety reasons. Some explanation will be needed for the state of my room. I have the largest room in the house (it's a studio room), so there's a crazy amount of space. As such, both my brother and I store our stuff in the room and use it equally for doing stuff and entertaining guests. I don't actually even spend that much time in the room cause I prefer sitting at my dining table cause there's better Wifi connection. So I'll show you my stuff and the general room area. My brother is moving out soon, so it'll all be mine soon enough. It's all very complicated. 

This is the general area of the room. There's a little bit more behind me where I'm standing, but that's where my brother stores his Lego and it's a mess. So you will pretend it's not there. 

This is my corner where I put some of the stuff, and most of my university books and notes. I never actually sit here, but the table is there if I ever need it. I love it mostly cause it's orange. 

This is a close up of my wall of stuff. There isn't a lot, but it's expanding. Mostly I like to put up tickets from gigs I attend or postcards. The pictures on the left are my class pictures from my five years in high school and my last year of primary school. And then the pictures on the right are just pictures of my friends and family. The larger framed photos are of the peer counselling society I was president of, and my high school graduating class respectively.

                               

 The other desk that is in the room is the one my brother uses for assembling his Lego, which is why it's in my room cause there's no where else to put it in the house. He's a huge Lego fan, but I reckon the picture should explain it.

                                     

And then there's a CD rack for all our CDs. Most of our favourites are kept in the car, but here are some of the rest. Anybody a fan of these bands? : D

Now, the tour will move to my favourite item in the room, the bookshelf! This is located at back part of the room that wasn't in the picture above, which is why you couldn't see it. It's a limited edition one IKEA Billy (yay for Billy fans?) which features Shakespeare quotes all over it.  It's really pretty, and I have no humility in saying so! 

That's pretty much all the I have in my room that's interesting enough to show. As a bonus, I took out my badge collection to show you guys. I keep them in a Bart Simpson lunch box tins, which incidentally is part of my collection of Simpsons tins (I like Simpsons merch). So the middle picture are all of my pins and badges, while the right picture are just the lapel pins on their own. 

And that's a wrap! 

Mia's Room

Welcome to my room. The place where I am glued to the computer screen. Feast your eyes as I just cleaned it! (Click the thumbnails for the larger images)

(click for bonus photo)

Here you can see the right side of my room, where the only properly decorated wall is located. There hang posters of Conan O’Brien support (when he was getting kicked off the Tonight Show because Jay Leno decided he didn’t want to quit after all - art by Mike Mitchell) and the first Cylon war from Battlestar Galactica. Framed with nice and cheap picture frames from Ikea.  Between the posters, among other things, is a mask I bought from Venice and in the corner is my bulletin board, where I store important and stupid crap. Like a banana plushie keychain my friend gave me as a birthday present. It looks like a penis when you peel it. My friend did her shopping at an erotica store.

Anyways, on the floor there is a jumble of wires. It is also where the internet lives. Then there are the two small TV counters that I use as shelves for books, DVDs, and other doodads, as well as for housing my scanner-printer-copying machine combo. My computer is perched on a footstool matching the chair I have. Actually, it’s perched on a cooling platform that’s on a Pink Panther comic book that’s on the footstool. Interesting, I know. If you look close enough you might even spot my pile of tissues. Oh, and on the top side of the image, where the curtain is, you can see some feathers. They are from a dream catcher I have hanging from the ceiling above my bed.

Here’s a detail shot of the contents of one of my TV counters (the other one shall remain a mystery to you, because of poor lighting). There’s a lot of fictional murder in there. Also sci-fi. Then there are the anatomy books, post-its, random military insignia, fans, a signed Piano Guys CD, and possibly the single geekiest setup in my room: A cylon figurine with a T-Rex accidentally posed to bite its hand.

The left wall of sadness. Few months ago I made a pathetic attempt at finally decorating that wall but, yeah, it’s still rather empty and miserable. There is only a printed image of a painting of mine and a collage of behind the scenes photos from Silence of The Lambs that came with the special edition DVD.

There is my fairly comfortable red chair, which I rarely actually sit on. It mainly works as an additional shelf that usually houses my bag, maybe some handouts and notebooks, and what ever I’m going to wear the next day. Right now it has my hoodie, by bag, a notebook and my warm blanket with reindeer images on it. The only reason my clothes aren’t there is that I removed them when I vacuumed it…and didn’t throw them back because frankly, I’m not ready to share my pile of clothes with you people, plus then you wouldn't have seen the chair well enough.

That thing hanging from the handle of one of the doors of the built-in closets is an USB cable. That handle is where I keep some of my wires. Yes. And within that closet there are the rest of the books I wanted to keep in my room instead of the hallway closet. As well as some random crap.

Then there is my bed. Which looks all colorful. It’s something I’ve shocked people with in the past (the bright or pastel-y colors don't generally match people's perception of me. They are right, but my secret is that I don't care about the colors of my bed sheets as much as I do about how good the fabric feels, eh heh). Also, clearly the best pillow ever: my Snufkin pillow.

The End.

(Spotted something in one of the photos? Anything related to my room you want to know more about/want me to talk about? Just ask about in the comments.)