Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Time of Your Life

Soundtrack to My Life - Track sixteen

Just like the last track, track sixteen is also taken from my 2006 summer (although I could probably relate it to other times too).

Before I lived here in my nice three-bedroom house, I lived in a one-bedroom council owned bungalow on a old people’s estate type thing. It was far from ideal for a 20-year-old. But it was a roof.
During the summer of 2006, my ex stayed with me in my extra small house for 95% of the time.

My dream at the time (and still is to a large extent) was to own a yellow VW camper van, paint flowers on it and go travelling around Britain. Alas, I’ve never had enough money to do something so extravagant – well, I definitely didn’t back then.

Sooo… one evening, my ex and I decided that since we didn’t have a camper, we could paint my living room walls just like a hippy camper van. So, that’s exactly what we did.

We painted a road, a rainbow, flowers, stars, a sheep (not sure why) and a giant bright pink flower - the pink was acrylic because that was the only paint bright enough. It took five coats of normal paint to get rid of it a year later!

That wasn’t enough. We decided we needed some words of wisdom on the wall, too. After hours of trawling through books and the internet, we settled on the following quote:

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time

Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)