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The 3-D walk-through of the house design was great and we forwarded docs to the contractor for pricing. He's super swamped like all contractors are around here these days so I don't know when we'll be able to get a meeting with him. He's fantastic though, and incredibly excited to work with us. His daughter is disabled and his family recently remodeled their hundred year old bungalow to make the main level accessible for her so his insight there has been remarkable. I feel lucky to have dropped into his project list.
I am getting super excited about the new house and all the closets it will have. Right now we don't have any closets in this entire place, so my sister calls it my zero bedroom, one-and-three-quarters-bath bungalow. I mean, she's not wrong. There is nowhere to put anything really so all our shit just winds up everywhere and my house is always a disaster. I keep acquiring new storage furniture and trying to get organized, but nothing works well enough. Also, every single person in this house is guilty of "I'm just going to put this down in this random-ass place for right now, I'll put it away for real reals later" and it shows. We are nothing but random-ass shit in random-ass places and trying to tidy up just makes my brain short circuit.
We're also beginning the purge process, which will definitely help with the shit being everywhere problem. I get so excited about every single bag or box of donate stuff we manage to get out the door. I put the shoes I wore to our wedding in the donate bin yesterday because I haven't worn the in a couple of years and they're just not comfortable enough. I'm hanging on to my wedding dress because Iliana might enjoy it at some point, but the shoes are just shoes. I'm trying to hang on to that mindset as I go through everything, but that's a constant struggle. Everything is so useful! And it might come in handy! Also, have you met books? And games?
I mean!
This is definitely a good, forward-thinking period right now. Not only is it spring looking forward to summer, but it's looking forward to the future of a house built to accommodate not only my schwannomatosis, but also my whole ass life. I mean, I just spent ten minutes looking at furniture to put in my front yard so we can have somewhere to retreat in the heat of summer when the backyard is an oven. I didn't buy anything because hi I have nowhere to store it and they're going to tear up everything in a year or whatever, but I started thinking about it. About the new house and the new life and the way I hope we get to live once all these shenanigans are over.
It's so nice to be thinking about this shit, instead of just grousing about how much I hurt and how much everything is trying to kill me. So. You know, things are pretty good right now.
I am getting super excited about the new house and all the closets it will have. Right now we don't have any closets in this entire place, so my sister calls it my zero bedroom, one-and-three-quarters-bath bungalow. I mean, she's not wrong. There is nowhere to put anything really so all our shit just winds up everywhere and my house is always a disaster. I keep acquiring new storage furniture and trying to get organized, but nothing works well enough. Also, every single person in this house is guilty of "I'm just going to put this down in this random-ass place for right now, I'll put it away for real reals later" and it shows. We are nothing but random-ass shit in random-ass places and trying to tidy up just makes my brain short circuit.
We're also beginning the purge process, which will definitely help with the shit being everywhere problem. I get so excited about every single bag or box of donate stuff we manage to get out the door. I put the shoes I wore to our wedding in the donate bin yesterday because I haven't worn the in a couple of years and they're just not comfortable enough. I'm hanging on to my wedding dress because Iliana might enjoy it at some point, but the shoes are just shoes. I'm trying to hang on to that mindset as I go through everything, but that's a constant struggle. Everything is so useful! And it might come in handy! Also, have you met books? And games?
I mean!
This is definitely a good, forward-thinking period right now. Not only is it spring looking forward to summer, but it's looking forward to the future of a house built to accommodate not only my schwannomatosis, but also my whole ass life. I mean, I just spent ten minutes looking at furniture to put in my front yard so we can have somewhere to retreat in the heat of summer when the backyard is an oven. I didn't buy anything because hi I have nowhere to store it and they're going to tear up everything in a year or whatever, but I started thinking about it. About the new house and the new life and the way I hope we get to live once all these shenanigans are over.
It's so nice to be thinking about this shit, instead of just grousing about how much I hurt and how much everything is trying to kill me. So. You know, things are pretty good right now.
