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I still haven't figured out this livejournal thing. It's pretty much a place for me to whinge about boys and boredom and sadness and I can't work out why that would be in any way compelling to the 1 or 2 people still around to read it, and yet I continue to do it every now and then. I just dont have a lot to say when things are going well....
At the moment I am feeling kind of energetic but tired at the same time. I am motivated to get things done and go out a bit and sort of actually managing to do some of those things.
I have spent a lot of time on my country house lately. By which I really mostly mean a day - but it was a full & productive day - I have a bathroom almost entirely installed, and I've smashed some walls and started assembling a kitchen.
One of the difficulties I have is that an increasing amount of stuff left to do is piddly little stuff, or big stuff that I am not physically strong enough to do by myself.. with this kitchen thing I need to move a solid oak bench to cut a whole for the sink - but it's just way too heavy for me. That kind of thing. And everyone who helps has opinions about how to do things, and their opinion is always more valid than mine - I don't go in for terms like "mansplain" but that has happened to me a lot lately.
Overall, though, I am pretty positive about how things are progressing.. it's all light at the end of the tunnell-y. It's making me happier about work, actually - just knowing that there's a chance the house will cease to be such a financial and emotional mill-stone.
In the boy department (because it's lj, and I am not sad so there needs to be boys) - Yesterday I got a random text from that boy that I was messing around with last year to meet him at the pub for drinks - which I assumed was because we are ostensibly friends and hang out and shit, but actually it looks like it might have been that he was drunk and wanted to start things up again. Because I am in a slightly manic "fuck it" sort of mood, I left the pub with him (perhaps a little abruptly), and went and hung out at my house for a bit (at this point, Lisa if you're reading this you've probably figured out who it is). So that's a thing. I guess what kind of a thing will work itself out eventually.
This week I plan to make some headway in my clearing out of boxes & piles. I am really hating living in clutter, and I am increasingly thinking I need some sort of clearing out buddy - to just come and sit and be all "do you really need that? Really?". I went to Ivy's birthday party yesterday and the clearing came up as a topic of conversation, and this guy who was at the party was talking about how there's this zen thing about getting rid of a third of your stuff, and how someone he knew went through it, and did things like threw out all their cookbooks - because even though you have a space for them, you dont actually use them a lot of the time. That is the level of clearing out that I think I need.
At the moment I am feeling kind of energetic but tired at the same time. I am motivated to get things done and go out a bit and sort of actually managing to do some of those things.
I have spent a lot of time on my country house lately. By which I really mostly mean a day - but it was a full & productive day - I have a bathroom almost entirely installed, and I've smashed some walls and started assembling a kitchen.
One of the difficulties I have is that an increasing amount of stuff left to do is piddly little stuff, or big stuff that I am not physically strong enough to do by myself.. with this kitchen thing I need to move a solid oak bench to cut a whole for the sink - but it's just way too heavy for me. That kind of thing. And everyone who helps has opinions about how to do things, and their opinion is always more valid than mine - I don't go in for terms like "mansplain" but that has happened to me a lot lately.
Overall, though, I am pretty positive about how things are progressing.. it's all light at the end of the tunnell-y. It's making me happier about work, actually - just knowing that there's a chance the house will cease to be such a financial and emotional mill-stone.
In the boy department (because it's lj, and I am not sad so there needs to be boys) - Yesterday I got a random text from that boy that I was messing around with last year to meet him at the pub for drinks - which I assumed was because we are ostensibly friends and hang out and shit, but actually it looks like it might have been that he was drunk and wanted to start things up again. Because I am in a slightly manic "fuck it" sort of mood, I left the pub with him (perhaps a little abruptly), and went and hung out at my house for a bit (at this point, Lisa if you're reading this you've probably figured out who it is). So that's a thing. I guess what kind of a thing will work itself out eventually.
This week I plan to make some headway in my clearing out of boxes & piles. I am really hating living in clutter, and I am increasingly thinking I need some sort of clearing out buddy - to just come and sit and be all "do you really need that? Really?". I went to Ivy's birthday party yesterday and the clearing came up as a topic of conversation, and this guy who was at the party was talking about how there's this zen thing about getting rid of a third of your stuff, and how someone he knew went through it, and did things like threw out all their cookbooks - because even though you have a space for them, you dont actually use them a lot of the time. That is the level of clearing out that I think I need.