A Very Exciting Morning
Jul. 21st, 2025 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutLots of construction noises this morning, but no one knocked on my bedroom door so I ignored all of it. Turns out R. did too, but A. was unable to. She fled her room for the porch and contemplated self-destructive behavior but made good choices. By the time I got up and started my routine and found her, she was shaky, but okay, and we talked about it and got her some breakfast.
I had multiple pickups this morning; predictably, one was late, and one still hasn’t shown up and I have more starting in about 20 minutes. It’s nice out (low 70s and not particularly humid), so I’ll walk in the afternoon when everything has settled down a bit.
Sheetrock going up and into the attic room today. Very exciting!
Oh, and one of the pickups is local with a kid who loves lego, so I’ll share with him before posting and maybe simplify things for myself.
ETA:
Building inspector came by. R. talked to B. from the contractor and offered him a variety of woodworking tools in the basement that he no longer needs. B. actually took him up on this, so those are heading out without me even needing to list them.
More pickups are happening, which is random and awesome altho mildly terrifying when they decide to park in the driveway because there are tools lying along the path to the house.
I’ve got book group tonight, and a hotel room for A. so she’ll be able to sleep in in the morning and I’m driving out to the (other) construction site (why did I do this to myself) tomorrow so R. will have to blast her out of the hotel room before noon.
ETAYA:
More pickups have happened. I cannot believe how Murphied this day has been and it’s not even 3 pm.
R. is out on a bike ride. I’m negotiating when my walk will occur, because I was hoping to do it after things had wound down, but they haven’t wound down around here yet.
I finished The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, which was readable, and also kind of hilarious because a few years ago I wouldn’t have known where Whitby was or York Minster, but of course I’ve been to both now, altho I was a hard pass on the stairs at Whitby.
https://walkitout.dreamwidth.org/2154115.html
ETA still more:
I got my walk with M.!
Workers knocked off only a little later than I expected so it is gloriously quiet. I failed to include one item in a regular’s pickup box, oops, and something went missing which is sad altho I suspect one of her kids grabbed it and hid it because she didn’t want to share. One person is nonresponsive, and one person rescheduled but all the rest actually happened which is 100% a Murphy Miracle.
I haven’t seen any responses to my book group announcement email, so I guess if no one shows up I have to figure out what went wrong there. If all the usual show up, then that’s an answer, too.
In the meantime, I have a couple hours to figure out dinner and read something for fun.
I had multiple pickups this morning; predictably, one was late, and one still hasn’t shown up and I have more starting in about 20 minutes. It’s nice out (low 70s and not particularly humid), so I’ll walk in the afternoon when everything has settled down a bit.
Sheetrock going up and into the attic room today. Very exciting!
Oh, and one of the pickups is local with a kid who loves lego, so I’ll share with him before posting and maybe simplify things for myself.
ETA:
Building inspector came by. R. talked to B. from the contractor and offered him a variety of woodworking tools in the basement that he no longer needs. B. actually took him up on this, so those are heading out without me even needing to list them.
More pickups are happening, which is random and awesome altho mildly terrifying when they decide to park in the driveway because there are tools lying along the path to the house.
I’ve got book group tonight, and a hotel room for A. so she’ll be able to sleep in in the morning and I’m driving out to the (other) construction site (why did I do this to myself) tomorrow so R. will have to blast her out of the hotel room before noon.
ETAYA:
More pickups have happened. I cannot believe how Murphied this day has been and it’s not even 3 pm.
R. is out on a bike ride. I’m negotiating when my walk will occur, because I was hoping to do it after things had wound down, but they haven’t wound down around here yet.
I finished The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, which was readable, and also kind of hilarious because a few years ago I wouldn’t have known where Whitby was or York Minster, but of course I’ve been to both now, altho I was a hard pass on the stairs at Whitby.
https://walkitout.dreamwidth.org/2154115.html
ETA still more:
I got my walk with M.!
Workers knocked off only a little later than I expected so it is gloriously quiet. I failed to include one item in a regular’s pickup box, oops, and something went missing which is sad altho I suspect one of her kids grabbed it and hid it because she didn’t want to share. One person is nonresponsive, and one person rescheduled but all the rest actually happened which is 100% a Murphy Miracle.
I haven’t seen any responses to my book group announcement email, so I guess if no one shows up I have to figure out what went wrong there. If all the usual show up, then that’s an answer, too.
In the meantime, I have a couple hours to figure out dinner and read something for fun.