there's a hole in my floor that can only be filled by yooooouuu.

[baratron]

I feel like I should post to say we're all still alive here. After five days of work, we have slightly less hole and slightly more floor. I was going to upload a bunch of photos of the Floor In Progress, but I think we've lost the little box that camera memory cards plug into, and I'm way too tired to annotate them anyway. My lungs are basically ok due to the amazing protective features of THE MASK, though I think I'll be cleaning black bogies out of my nose for weeks ;)

Currently wondering just how monogamous people manage to get anything done in their houses, let alone single people. It's taken both partners & me five days to do this much, and we haven't exactly been slacking off (they've been working from noon to 11pm every day, except Wednesday which was a crappy day for so many reasons - I've been here as and when inbetween work and menstrual gnomes). I think people who live alone and achieve major DIY projects must be superheroes!

Anyway: there is a damp Amazonian Alexa in front of me, and Richard's downstairs making coffee, and most of what I want to say won't make sense until the photos are online, so *yawn* *stretch*. We would appreciate people coming over to have a Furniture-Moving Party on Sunday afternoon/eveningish. Anyone who's feeling vaguely strong can come by & help us shift stuff. (Lots of it isn't heavy at all, just annoying, like bags of paperback books looted from the bookshelves before we moved them.) I will feed you! Shout in the comments here if you're coming to make sure I have enough of the right types of food.

Comments

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

as a couple household, I can say that I haven't had a shower since July. However, if we were monogamous, we might have spent less time with other partners and more on the DIY - maybe.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

"damp Amazonian Alexa" is a marvellous mental image.

[syllopsium.livejournal.com]

Currently wondering just how monogamous people manage to get anything done in their houses, let alone single people
1) It takes longer if you have a social life or work in-between (record for this : 10 years for my dad to fix a shower)

2) Pay someone else to do it

3)reciprocal arrangement with friends

[skibbley.livejournal.com]

Yay floor. Thanks for having me stay in mid house reformatting.

[karen2205]

I live alone in a rented flat so I don't really have much opportunity to do proper DIY. I've fitted curtain track, sealant strip to the single glazed windows, a draught excluder etc. They're all one person jobs really; possibly with the exception of putting the rubber stripping on the window frames because the sash windows kept trying to close on my hands. I like solo DIY most of the time, because I can take my time working out how to fix a particular problem, without having someone trying to hurry me up or take over. It also has the advantage that if I leave a mess I'm the only one who has to live with it, so it can stay the way it is until I'm ready to tidy it up. My problem with solo DIY is that I become very aware of the statistics of injuries caused to people doing DIY and worry about how long I'd have to wait for help if I were to fall and injure myself (probably several days).

My general theory is that the amount of time it takes to do DIY stuff depends on the amount of space available to empty a room of furniture while you work on it/your ability to do without the stuff in that room - kitchens and bathrooms are particularly difficult in this respect, 'cos you have to tidy away sufficiently at the end of the day to cook dinner/use the facilities.

I was brought up on doing lots of DIY; I lived in a house that was permanently in a state of decoration for years. My sister and I both have well developed DIY skills. My sister managed to decorate her own bedroom during the summer holidays and with my Mum's help decorated my old bedroom. Now they've just got my Mum's room to do & it's going much more slowly now it's term time. And yeah, that's the other thing that affects the speed of DIY - quantity of time available to do it when not exhausted from work.

[ludy]

yay! for improved floor - and i'm sorry i can't be helpful with it

[kshandra]

I think I'll be cleaning black bogies out of my nose for weeks ;)

Oh, do I ever know the feeling. I'll spare you my tales of the wonder that is Playa Snot; suffice it to say that the entire population of Black Rock City has their fingers in their nose at one point or another during the event, and nobody cares.