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acroyearthere are fewer things more annoying than working your ass off in the garage, knowing you're working your ass off in the garage, feeling you're working your ass off in the garage, and finally contemplating how much you've worked your ass off in the garage...
...only to look at the garage after you've finished and feel like its worse off than it was before you started...
*sigh*
and the craft room, living room, and tv room are all still collective messes and there's only 2 1/2 weekends left to the SnB. yesterdays rain was terribly wrong, 'cause it meant the whole day was utterly wasted as far as the house goes. The house is in that rediculous state, where every other room has things to go in the craft room, which is overloaded because it has too many things that need to go to the garage, which was packed to the gills already and couldn't be touched all winter long. The number of boxes that are 25% crafts, 25% yarn/thread, 30% trash, 10% papers that we simply know we can't throw out but have no idea what to do with otherwise, and 10% important mementos from one year or another that need a proper home, is just astounding...Yes, almost every box is that mix-and-matched. Yes, that means the entire garage is 30% trash or more, but there's no way to weed it all out except one stupid box at a time, which can't be done until the 25, 25, 10, and 10 %'s all have some place to go, which they don't.
part of the problem is that we simply don't have any idea just how much thread, or patterns, or yarn, or cross-stitch kits and threads, or fabric, or candle-making stuffs, or soap-making stuffs there really is, so any plan to put some set of items A into set of drawers B or shelf-set C is absolutely guarenteed to overflow said drawers or shelves by the time its all consolidated. hence a great shadow looms over all, preventing us from even starting the project...
Fellow beer drinkers, this probably means i'm gonna have to take a pass on the beer festival sunday (June 27; saturday was the prepare-for -faire yard sale that cyd and i committed to going to). However, anybody who wishes to park their cars and get a lift to & from the festival site, then hang out in the tv room watching vids until its safe to drive, please feel free. Just let me know who and how many and all that rot. The TV room should be definitely clear by then (that's my project this week after work hours), as we'll hopefully be at the point of just working craft room and/or living room by then, preparing for the week after's SnB.
This week has one, maybe two, mini-morris tours with a touring kids team. one is tuesday in baltimore with one of my teams, the other supposedly in DC on thursday. However, that thursday gig was originally planned for around the capital, which is slated to become a total police state by wednesday for at least 48 hours, so i'm not sure where thursday's gig is gonna wind up...
Potomac Celtic Fest and the annual pig roast for those in the know, next weekend. We'll be at the celtic fest on saturday, and working here on sunday. Headliners include Lunasa, the host band (so to speak) Iona, and a whole slew of acts never before seen on the Potomac festival's stages!
...only to look at the garage after you've finished and feel like its worse off than it was before you started...
*sigh*
and the craft room, living room, and tv room are all still collective messes and there's only 2 1/2 weekends left to the SnB. yesterdays rain was terribly wrong, 'cause it meant the whole day was utterly wasted as far as the house goes. The house is in that rediculous state, where every other room has things to go in the craft room, which is overloaded because it has too many things that need to go to the garage, which was packed to the gills already and couldn't be touched all winter long. The number of boxes that are 25% crafts, 25% yarn/thread, 30% trash, 10% papers that we simply know we can't throw out but have no idea what to do with otherwise, and 10% important mementos from one year or another that need a proper home, is just astounding...Yes, almost every box is that mix-and-matched. Yes, that means the entire garage is 30% trash or more, but there's no way to weed it all out except one stupid box at a time, which can't be done until the 25, 25, 10, and 10 %'s all have some place to go, which they don't.
part of the problem is that we simply don't have any idea just how much thread, or patterns, or yarn, or cross-stitch kits and threads, or fabric, or candle-making stuffs, or soap-making stuffs there really is, so any plan to put some set of items A into set of drawers B or shelf-set C is absolutely guarenteed to overflow said drawers or shelves by the time its all consolidated. hence a great shadow looms over all, preventing us from even starting the project...
Fellow beer drinkers, this probably means i'm gonna have to take a pass on the beer festival sunday (June 27; saturday was the prepare-for -faire yard sale that cyd and i committed to going to). However, anybody who wishes to park their cars and get a lift to & from the festival site, then hang out in the tv room watching vids until its safe to drive, please feel free. Just let me know who and how many and all that rot. The TV room should be definitely clear by then (that's my project this week after work hours), as we'll hopefully be at the point of just working craft room and/or living room by then, preparing for the week after's SnB.
This week has one, maybe two, mini-morris tours with a touring kids team. one is tuesday in baltimore with one of my teams, the other supposedly in DC on thursday. However, that thursday gig was originally planned for around the capital, which is slated to become a total police state by wednesday for at least 48 hours, so i'm not sure where thursday's gig is gonna wind up...
Potomac Celtic Fest and the annual pig roast for those in the know, next weekend. We'll be at the celtic fest on saturday, and working here on sunday. Headliners include Lunasa, the host band (so to speak) Iona, and a whole slew of acts never before seen on the Potomac festival's stages!
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Date: 2004-06-06 07:10 pm (UTC)Plus a few hours of my week devoted to some computer-guru learning... It's gonna be a hectic week...
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Date: 2004-06-06 07:56 pm (UTC)Besides, you can always label at least one "What was I *thinking*?" (for time and/or choice of material(s)) to stick the stuff in to sell and/or give away... which'll lessen the mess as well as encourage a *little* stash weeding.
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Date: 2004-06-06 08:14 pm (UTC)particularly as we discover coupons for groceries and newspaper clippings that are dated 2001...
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Date: 2004-06-06 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-06 08:27 pm (UTC)Every time my mother comes to visit, we wind up with a pile of newspaper clippings and coupons that I never have time to look through, combined with all the mail she has collected for me at home (since some people still seem to think I still live at her house), combined with some actual useful stuff that she's unearthed at HER house... She's the penultimate packrat, and does not seem to understand that i do not have the time to sort through all the crap she gives me, because 'i can use it... somewhere'.
That, and she has a habit of giving me useless tchatchkis.
And of course, she asks me where the stuff is the next time she comes down. It gets to the point that i wind up getting guilt tripped because of "all the work she's done to get me all of this" (like sitting through newspapers clipping coupons, finding articles, etc). And of course, she gave me most of this crap before we even moved here.
but this means there's a huge pile of shit in boxes in the garage... And only about ten percent of what she's given us actually is useful at this point. But we've still got to go through it all... *sigh*
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Date: 2004-06-06 08:34 pm (UTC)Then you can turn to her and honestly tell her that you're not sure... a friend was helping you get organized and you're not sure where some things got put... (so even if you're pretty darn certain they hit the trash, you're still not certain... :-)
Psst... and I'm willing to play at that on the 3rd, if I can make it down there... as long as you don't think there's anything non-obvious that you wouldn't want trashed... (I'm trying to refrain from much sewing right now, anyway... and it's always less painful going through stacks of papers that you don't *have* to go through (like the stack on the kitchen table I'm avoiding right at this moment :-) )
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Date: 2004-06-06 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-06 08:46 pm (UTC)The reason I've *got* to go through the pile *now* is that the Tangle is at my place on Sunday... so I've got to get everything clean, tidy (woe betide any kid leaving *anything* out this week!), etc. before I go to Tony's on Saturday... or I can't go to Tony's.
*g* You can come up and stitch if you feel like it, though... I *think* I've got Toni talked into coming down this time... we'll see. (wonder if I'll actually get *any* embroidery stuff done myself that day....)
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Date: 2004-06-06 08:51 pm (UTC)Gots all kinds of places to go between now and July 4th weekend... and we're only going to make one or two of them...
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Date: 2004-06-06 08:55 pm (UTC)