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I'm excited! We're in the process of fixing up the old place in Cohoes and moving all our stuff to the new place in Glenville!

On the list of Major life improvements:
* better school for Ally
* i has a real garage for car repairs!
* colonial house layout instead of rail-flat-dual-family-housing
* I get to hear C-130s in the morning before going to work.
* not limited to two gas furnaces per floor for heat.
* something of a real attic for easy maint. if needed.
* a real, usable basement!

There's a fair amount of repairs/upgrades that will need to be done, but I don't feel like I'll be pouring money down the drain, like with the Cohoes house.

I just wish I had more time to move stuff from one house to the other, so we could put the old one on the market sooner.
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So, haven't talked about this much. We're buying a new house and selling the one in Cohoes. I don't want to jinx it, but it looks like the purchase will actually go through for the new house. I'm excited.

This is the house we should have gotten first and stayed in, and I can't wait to get out of and sell the old. It has enough from for a guestroom and a half, and a real living room, dining room, and kitchen. The basement is deep enough and well let that we can comfortably use it. It has a garage! The only downside, aside from various repairs, is that we have to have a fence put in, which will be spendy as it'll have to go up a hill.

The house won't be without its projects, but I'll have space to do them and storage place for tools for those projects.

My daughter will be in HS that's rated 8/10 instead of 4-5/10. The middle school she's in now tries hard, but the troubles that the kids get into is getting obvious. I want a better influence for her.

Amusingly, we'll be right around the corner from the ANG Base I used to be enlisted at. I'll get to hear the sweet sound of C130's more often.

This will be a very good move for the family.

Now I just have to keep from having panic attacks over the amount of stuff to move and the selling of the old house.
Nov. 15th, 2018 03:44 pm

Self

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This morning while getting ready for work, I had a realization while looking in the mirror. The face looking back at me is no longer one that I want to punch. I can't quite say that I like it, but I like it more than I did for the last 25+ years. I have less active disdain towards it.

For so long the face I wore was one that was always worried, scared, neurotic, or unsure. Those feelings are still there, but not as significantly as they were. There is less hate of self than there was, for the longest time.

Maybe soon I can start working on my self-confidence around other people, and actually feel it instead of trying to fake it.
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NOT how I wanted to mop the kitchen floor. As I was trying to find the cookbook for dinner, the hot water line on the washing machine went. Couldn't reach the shutoff next to the washer because the current set are a little wider than the previous set, so, no room to maneuver, plus Hot water is HOT. Had to run into the basement, turning nobs like a madman trying to find the right one for the first floor. (second-floor run right alongside the first)

Tomorrow I will be moving the stove, dryer, then washer so I can replace the hose for the hot water line.

Right now; dinner with wine.
Nov. 12th, 2018 10:55 am

Day Off

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The struggle is real...

I want to sit on the couch and binge Netflix, be on my laptop, and have coffee. (and maybe read)

Instead, I should be working on a lengthy calligraphy project, get new tires, do laundry, and prep dinner.

Tires are scheduled, and I can read while I wait. So I suppose I should go calligraphy. I might stream on Twitch or a Hangout if anyone is interested.
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I find myself missing the days of Google Hangouts with friends arting in their chosen ways.

I hear that Google hangouts will be going away, and I'm undecided about twitch.tv for near chatless streaming. I'll have to see what else is out there.
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So, this morning I find myself burning saved up time off. Normally I'd have burned all my vacation time through military duty. Being retired now, I haven't thought to use any of it until being chastised by the company I work for.

I have not yet started on the list of things I have planned/need to get done this week. I keep trying to tell myself that it's okay, very few items on the list are mandatory. I still find myself feeling a bit anxious over it, because "must get things done, you can rest when you're (too) tired (to work)".

So, in an attempt to practice a little self-care, am I really not helping my mental self?

I should shower and get some stuff done.
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