Fall has fallen

[merimask]

Wow...every darn leaf on my street decided to give up the ghost over the weekend.  Add wind and rain and you have a mess that just kept...happening and happening.  Over and over again.  I raked the lawn and cleared the drive at least five times, six if you include the touch up I had to do today.  Well, at least it appears to be done.

I've been so

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[golden_meliades]

I really hate painting hairsticks white. It takes FOREVER and usually ends up clumpy because of all the coats you have to do. >[ (You use higher quality paints than I do so that might not be an issue but I find white is the worst for clumping anyway.) Most hairsticks I've done white have ended up being thrown out. Even spray paint doesn't work well, in white. It's only good on walls, it seems.

You can probably pack most of Char's stuff away into tidy storage, if there's anything there she might still want (clothes that still fit and that she still likes and has a use for, for example, though she probably took most of those with her...except maybe summer clothes?) I actually took everything I had with me when I went to college, left nothing at all for my family to deal with (my sister moved straight into my room, I think I even helped her do it the morning I was leaving.) By the time she's done college and ready to take whatever remnants there still are to a permanent (ish) home, she probably won't want 90% of it anyway. (Though I'm a natural purger, so maybe that estimate is high.)

[merimask]

White is just so much work. Some things simply have to be white, but I cringe at every proposed white mask design. It's always so much work and yet, no one wants to pay more for all that additional time. *sigh*

Char's really bad at culling her stuff. We all are to a degree, but she's especially bad at it. It requires boxes and an eye towards not keeping EVERYthing (which is what my mom did). Because we don't need to open a museum, we just need some mementos from childhood (a few beloved toys, dolls, books) and everything else gets donated. Because it is not loved. She obviously hasn't touched most of that stuff for years.