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Jul. 1st, 2025 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omnia_mutanturBe inspired, omnia, try to post in July. Not full "since last we saw our antiheroine" updates, not deathless prose, just posting.
Once upon a time someone "installed" a bank of three kitchen cabinets above, a section of countertop, and three cabinets below in our basement. (as if someone had taken a five foot long chunk out an existing kitchen, ceiling to floor and then precariously screwed it onto a couple of 2x4s that I don't even understand how they are attached to the unfinished basement wall.)
We've lived here since 2019 and I've always hoped to take them down and replace them with something a little less tragic and a little more useful. Clearly, because I'm telling you this story now I haven't. But, after first discovering I was emotionally labile enough to cry over drill-confusion, I have now removed at least everything we've abandoned into the cabinets, and taken down the upper half. While i have and had many hopes/plans, apparently none of them addressed what am I going to do with the spiky nail ridden tetanus cabinet traps after they're not attached to the wall. I know sometimes to make something tidier you have to make it messier, but also the garage has lost the minimal amount of cool it's mostly-undergroundness lends in the morning and I am dizzy, so I'm just walking away from the disaster, pretending I'll deal with a little more of it tomorrow, and then going on vacation until the following Monday. Future me's problem, I guess?
I made a card for Spark, who is away at camp, to their specifications. Is it important for a 7yo to know that an adult human is shit at crafts and still makes them? Possibly. Is she discerning of the quality of my crafting or going to pay more than minimal attention to the card I send? Probably not. Is it hard to step away and just send it and not try at least two more times? Definitely.
Once upon a time someone "installed" a bank of three kitchen cabinets above, a section of countertop, and three cabinets below in our basement. (as if someone had taken a five foot long chunk out an existing kitchen, ceiling to floor and then precariously screwed it onto a couple of 2x4s that I don't even understand how they are attached to the unfinished basement wall.)
We've lived here since 2019 and I've always hoped to take them down and replace them with something a little less tragic and a little more useful. Clearly, because I'm telling you this story now I haven't. But, after first discovering I was emotionally labile enough to cry over drill-confusion, I have now removed at least everything we've abandoned into the cabinets, and taken down the upper half. While i have and had many hopes/plans, apparently none of them addressed what am I going to do with the spiky nail ridden tetanus cabinet traps after they're not attached to the wall. I know sometimes to make something tidier you have to make it messier, but also the garage has lost the minimal amount of cool it's mostly-undergroundness lends in the morning and I am dizzy, so I'm just walking away from the disaster, pretending I'll deal with a little more of it tomorrow, and then going on vacation until the following Monday. Future me's problem, I guess?
I made a card for Spark, who is away at camp, to their specifications. Is it important for a 7yo to know that an adult human is shit at crafts and still makes them? Possibly. Is she discerning of the quality of my crafting or going to pay more than minimal attention to the card I send? Probably not. Is it hard to step away and just send it and not try at least two more times? Definitely.
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Date: 2025-07-01 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-07-02 02:03 am (UTC)Honestly think this is a very important thing for a 7yo to know.
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Date: 2025-07-02 03:06 pm (UTC)