My Hands Are A Mess

By Erica on September 28, 2003 6:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

I'm tired of pushing, pulling, ripping, tearing, and screwing/plugging in things.

You can tell a boy lives here. I'm told that he cleaned it up pretty good. Aside from getting the carpets cleaned, he put some things away. It's such a boy house. Heavy on electronics, light on... um... taste. He bought this house from some little old lady and most of the furniture and the artwork on the walls came with it. I walked in the door and as I looked around I thought "Projects!" (as in "things to do," not "ghe-heh-heh-to-ho-ho"). Once I get settled, the first order of business will be lighting. Higher wattage. Better fixtures. Something will eventually have to be done about this wallpaper. Oy, the wallpaper. And window treatments.

But it's nice. Pretty spacious. I have the downstairs to myself. Bedroom, bathroom, and a den-type room.

I'm setting up my own entertainment center and electronics in the den since he's already got all that upstairs in the living room. I'm pretty sure I've got all the components hooked up properly. DVDs and videos play and sound fine. But there's a problem with the cable, because I get 2 channels in and they look really bad through the tv and through the VCR. I think the jack might be bad. I'll check the jack in the bedroom and if it works okay I'll just get a splitter and run a cable into the den from there so I can still have TV/DVD/VCR in my room. I found an extra TV and DVD/VCR combo thingy sitting around, so the extra TV, which is bigger than mine, is going in the entertainment center, and the combo thingy will go in my room with my TV.

I'm enjoying having cable tv again. I've been watching mostly TLC non-stop. But we get no friggin' Oxygen! I hate you, Comcast.

I put a bunch of clothes away last night. I prefer to have all my clothing options visible in my closet. I like things hung up, and those things that are folded need to be on shelves that I can see. I hate to put things in my dresser drawers. Except underwear. That needs to stay in a drawer. All the time I was at home I never hung anything up. I didn't feel like digging out hangers and I was trying to maintain my state of ready-to-move-ness. So the clothes situation is about half-finished. I still have a lot I need to get rid of.

I washed two sets of sheets and the mattress pad. I had some new sets that I bought and I refuse to use them until they've been laundered. And then I didn't even put the newly washed ones on the bed. I just threw a third set in the dryer to freshen it up a bit and put that on the bed.

I missed my bed something fierce. That was my first major purchase after I got my first real job. I picked out just for me. My first night back in it was blissful.