I've been busy this week and finally landed on a slack afternoon.
Yesterday my friend Rachael came over and we excavated my nerdhole. Took about 4 hours and it's a small room so that gives some sense of the pile up in there.
It's in good shape now and we have achieved Step 1 to reclaiming it as a working office, though I do have the very Buffista problem of Too Many Books.
It's so much easier doing shit like this when you've got a fun friend to plow through it with.
Cleaning the nerdhole is consistent with this year's plan of Making Things Less Janky which also included fixing the garage door and putting in a new door to the garden. My downstairs neighbor, Jamille, said we were Beautifying the house. I said that was a bar too high and Less Janky was an achievable goal.
Matilda and I cleaned out the Guinea Pig cage this morning too so I really just need a whack at the dishes and vacuum to get the house in order.
Been a busy week here too. DH trying to do a month's worth of house projects in his week here. Prepping to build a new shed because we had to get rid of the old one when we built the back porch. Prepped for the tree guy to come and take out some trees that need to go. We also had to move the carport canopies, which was super easy with 6 of my neighbors lending a hand. What 8 can do in a few minutes it would have taken 2 all day.
But I did manage to go and get my nails done! Bye to my cute Pride nails and now I have hot pink toes and matching french tips.
Nail tech was born and raised up here, and being about 78% red here I always figured probably Republican. Part of our chatting was the insane immigration policies. She knows lots of people who have had issues. Last summer she encountered a road block checking people (near Canadian border) and she had to have her mother bring her birth certificate because they wouldn't accept her social security card and driver license as proof. They held her until mom came. She is Italian and thinks maybe her dark summer tan and black hair made them target her, or they just were being asses to everyone. At any rate, she was very upset about all of it including the TPS situation while pointing out we all are immigrants. Anyway, since this is a solidly red area it was nice to hear.
