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Lay your bullshit down
Dec. 1st, 2017 01:15 pmI've successfully painted the second finished room of my basement (including the stairwell) and am pleased with how it turned out. If there was an easy way on here to share pictures (:checks app store for 'dreamwidth', no results found:), I would so you're just going to have to take my word for it.
The lighting is typical basement, so I found myself needing to hold up an unshaded lamp not unlike an old-timey prospector to see the spots that I missed. Nate was with his mom in Chicago for the Thanksgiving weekend so it was great to have an uninterrupted weekend to get it done.
Next week, I'm getting a second carpeting quote and will see how to proceed - hoping for some year-end deals on carpeting as well as furniture.
Also next week, the fence I've been waiting for since July (?) should be finally installed so hooray.
Life is overall fine. I don't have a ton of things that I'm looking forward to, so I should fix that. After the above, I should be 'done' with house expenses (albeit self-inflected) and I haven't done any traveling for a while, so it might be time to think about a trip. Maybe out west, maybe involving a passport.
The topic of the month for my UU discussion group is hope and I'm really struggling with finding ways to be hopeful about the larger world for, oh, just over a year. My little existence is plodding along just fine but not matter how many politicians are led away in handcuffs, I get the sense that things are going to be really, really shitty for huge amounts of people for a really, really long time.
To offset a bit, I'm participating in an adopt-a-family at a local domestic violence shelter and plan to make it an annual affair. Will get a Christmas tree this weekend with Nate but not feeling the season at all this year. Maybe I'll feel different when the snow starts to fall.
The lighting is typical basement, so I found myself needing to hold up an unshaded lamp not unlike an old-timey prospector to see the spots that I missed. Nate was with his mom in Chicago for the Thanksgiving weekend so it was great to have an uninterrupted weekend to get it done.
Next week, I'm getting a second carpeting quote and will see how to proceed - hoping for some year-end deals on carpeting as well as furniture.
Also next week, the fence I've been waiting for since July (?) should be finally installed so hooray.
Life is overall fine. I don't have a ton of things that I'm looking forward to, so I should fix that. After the above, I should be 'done' with house expenses (albeit self-inflected) and I haven't done any traveling for a while, so it might be time to think about a trip. Maybe out west, maybe involving a passport.
The topic of the month for my UU discussion group is hope and I'm really struggling with finding ways to be hopeful about the larger world for, oh, just over a year. My little existence is plodding along just fine but not matter how many politicians are led away in handcuffs, I get the sense that things are going to be really, really shitty for huge amounts of people for a really, really long time.
To offset a bit, I'm participating in an adopt-a-family at a local domestic violence shelter and plan to make it an annual affair. Will get a Christmas tree this weekend with Nate but not feeling the season at all this year. Maybe I'll feel different when the snow starts to fall.
