Severed, The New House
My Monday followed a pattern that has been established recently, compress, remove, discard, and sort. I spent time in the office and the hobby room primarily trying to make some headway. As mentioned before the hobby room will be the biggest bear of all. In that regard I listed three of my printers in there for sale and one of my electric unicycles. The money and space will come in handy. At this point the hobby room is really the only space that has significant things on the wall courtesy of the wire shelving I installed years ago to house all of the parts/tools associated with my 3D printing and EUC hobbies. It all has to come down.
It is a bit strange the way my mind has flipped. Things that I once thought I was attached to or needed are now getting summarily thrown out or given away with little more than a split second deliberation. My trash bin was filled to the brim last night with another large pile of things down by the roadside for the scavengers to have their way with. Kerri and I also were in the garage last night pulling down tons of partial paint cans and other supplies. I had left over paint from pretty much every room in the house. Since everything both inside and outside is due to be painted it has all become instantly obsolete. I will have a large drop off at the local recycling center coming up this week.
During the day I met up with Kerri at Home Depot to grab a different set of colors for the exterior of the house. I think this time we hit on a good combo, the test area looked good on the exterior wall. Despite the huge pain in the ass it is to prep the house for painting I am excited to see what the transformation will look like afterward.
It’s odd for me to feel so robotic about the process. Sure there are a few things that I absolutely need/want to hold on to but for the most part I am in a scorched earth mindset. Now that the ball is rolling I will be pushing hard to get on the other side of this, it’s just how I am.
Last night Kerri and I took a break to do something fun, build a Peanuts themed ginger bread house. She bought this weeks ago but we never found the time to build it before the holidays. I was convinced that when I came out in the morning that the house would have slid apart but it was still standing strong, a testament to our superior house building skill. It was a fun little project, for both of us.