How To:
Write some additional directions for successfully returning home. I'm probably going to be writing choruses for "How to Return Home" soon and I'd rather be working from your fresh ideas than culling my own from forever ago. As you can probably imagine - this instructions can be very serious or ironic. After a conversation w Brian, here's the info I have: the verses of the song are going to be setting the scene and the choruses will give instructions. Most likely the words "how to return home" will be in the bridge - how very pop of us! Your personal insights will be welcome.
Well… I don’t have anything witty and I don’t think this’ll help much, but when I come home it kinda goes like this:
1) Get over the initial shock that my parents basically remodeled the entire house and that it’s so freakishly clean I don’t know where to put anything
2) Throw everything on my floor so its not freakishly clean anymore
3) Enjoy the fact that I can go barefoot into the bathroom and shower instead of having to wear shower shoes
4) Sit through (and enjoy) family dinner mom made specially for me and my brother
5) Meet with my boyfriend and work through all the long distance issues we had acquired over the past months and then chuck them like none of it ever mattered to begin with.
6) Call my close group of friends and make plans to do all the stuff we used to do pre-college.
7) Explain to my mom that I’ll be home soon and that I’m not disappearing forever or sneaking back off to college but just going to the mall.
8) Sleep till 11 every morning
Nice. Thanks for this, Nikki! It’s so crazy and amazing to be working on a project like this because I can pick at all of your brains.