- You ever have one of those days …
- After receiving a bid to fix something in our house that made me weep on the inside, we opted to fix it ourselves.
- Involves a wall. Well, walls now. And drywall.
- It did not involve drywall when we started, obviously.
- I mean home projects never, in my experience, go the path of least resistance.
- My dad used to build houses, so I had him over as project manager.
- He is not the most patient of teachers, and as he’s in his 70s his assistance is only instructional.
- Now our TV room looks like the pic above.
- But I’m learning things, so yay.
- Sorry. “Yay!”
- And I got a cool new oscillating saw thing.
- Next weekend: Hanging drywall!
- Also, the room was trimmed out in paneling you apparently can’t get anymore, so I need to figure out something with the walls to make them not look super weird.
- I’ll get the Teenager to watch some Chip and Joanna I guess.
- Or Property Brothers.
- When she was smaller and would visit Grandma’s house, they would invariably end up watching HGTV.
- So the Teenager has long-held strong opinions about interior design.
- One of the solutions will not involve redoing the entire rest of the room.
- On the next episode of This Old House …
- What’s funny is we’ve been talking about doing that furniture flipping thing.
- With the new house, we have some empty rooms and we’ve been … well, the Wife has been furniture shopping, literally everywhere.
- Like everything else in this inflated new world, furniture is ridiculously expensive.
- For instance, a nice set of patio furniture can run you north of $2,000.
- Well, will, not can.
- We need a dining room table. Those are more expensive than patio furniture.
- Like, they cost as much as the Teenager’s first car would’ve cost a couple years ago.
- DUDE.
- I’m going to have to go to my dad’s workshop of many tools and learn how to build a bloody table I guess.
- (I say that like it’s as easy as “oh, I’m just gonna go table me up a table.”)
- Could be a cool adventure.
- Making things.
- Have to be careful saying things like this. The romanticism of hope never quite comes across the same in the real world.
- There’s a little bit of cynicism in this morning’s list.
- Chock it up to Monday. I’ve had coffee, so let’s change our vector.
- Finished my Blind Date with a Book over the weekend.
- For those playing the home game, it was The Library at Mount Char.
- And it was a very Neil Gaiman-esque sort of experience. Maybe mix in some Tim Powers.
- It’s difficult to sum up in a couple of bullets, so let’s just say it involves a crazy pantheon of librarian gods and their shenanigans.
- Was good stuff. Thank you, whichever of you Librarian folk sent it my way.
- We found ourselves with a Teenager-free evening Saturday, so we went to the movies and saw The King’s Man because a) we liked the first two, and b) the Teenager didn’t want us to see Uncharted without her.
- At least the popcorn was good.
- Have yourself some good popcorn this week.
- Seriously, just go to the theatre, buy some, and leave.
- … Yeah, I’ll stop.
- Have a Monday.
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