The UnGuest-ly Guest Room

Whenever I visit my sister, my niece Cailey voluntarily gives up her cozy room so that I will have a nice place to sleep.  It is a kind gesture really, as the poor girl ends up sleeping on the couch.

I must admit though, she's made it awfully difficult for me to get a good nights rest in there.  It's not her bed; that's very comfortable.  It's not her cleanliness; her room's always in ship-shape.  The real problem is her decor.  Generally her room looks like your average cute teenage girls room BUT there is always a one misguided accoutrement each time I come to stay.  With every visit I'm always horrified to find one unsightly blemish decorating her room--one that seems to keep me up at night.

On one of my first visits, or should I say sleepless nights,  I found a    "Vote for Hilary Clinton" sign looming in her window.  How could I sleep with that in her bedroom?  One of us was gonna have to go.  About 5 minutes passed before I stuffed it between her mattress and box spring so I would not have to look at it.  Upon my departure, I refused to tell her where it was hidden so she spent a fair amount of time trying to recover it.  And when she did, I also discovered my niece had an imp-ish sense of humor as I found the sign folded up in a large envelope inside my mailbox upon my return home.  A very misguided but CLEVER little girl.

This last visit was the mother of all offenses.  I had to sleep with a huge laminated poster of Edward the Twilight vampire staring back at me.  It was all too much.  So I fixed the problem with a little paper, tape, and scissors...

And after that, I slept like a baby.