The first bedroom I had of my own (meaning it wasn't shared with my brother) was when my family moved into a new house that my parents had built. Personal space was a luxury I hadn't known, which made it even more special to me than I suppose it would have normally have been.

I remember very little about what my room was like in my childhood home. I do know that in later years it was painted a bright blue. I also know that I picked that color to match my Star Wars bedsheets in 1977...

The color looked better on the sheets than my walls, but... Star Wars.

My carpet was a pukey green that could only have come from the 1960's. Other than that? Memories lost in time. Like tears in rain.

Until I found a photo in my latest batch of scans...

Hot Wheels! And the walls are white, which means that this pre-dates 1977 and my Star Wars obsession.

The only thing that looks familiar is the scary clown light on my nightstand. I remember it well. It had a happy-faced clown on one side and a sad-faced clown on the other. My aunt had made it, or else there's no way I would have had a murderous clown in my bedroom. There looks to be some other kind of ceramic creation next to it, but I can't recall what it was. If I had to guess, I'm thinking piggy bank.

So... unless other photos show up in future scans, I'm guessing this is it.

I'm not overly-sentimental when it comes to things like this, but I do regret that I didn't document my first bedroom better than this.

I would have liked to have seen those bright blue walls one more time.