It is deceivingly cute in this photo. In real life it is…decidedly less cute. But I do really love it, it’s nice to have my own patio space
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The forum’s tiny victory is having you here.
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And you!! 
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Today, over the course of 7 hours with plenty of mum work in between, I had a big long shower, some pizza, and then a nap and then watched an episode of le circle france
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I LOVE that feeling! I replaced the screen in mine last summer and felt the same way.
My Tony Victor:
I put a (very simple) bookshelf together today and felt quite accomplished about it, too. Just need to fill it, now.
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It took 6 days but I have relined all the kitchen cupboards with new liner. I could only handle doing a full cupboard a day and left the worst for last, so I was pretty cranky doing it yesterday, even after I finished.
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Asked child if she wanted to take a nap, she was agreeable. Then she proceeded to lay right down and snuggle under her blankets with no screaming. I might be jinxing this by posting here but it’s a victory!
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If you’re able to recreate it, please share what black magic you used to make this happen. Kiddo napped the other day but only because we were all woken up at 3AM by a very loud thunderstorm.
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I have been somehow blessed with a great sleeper, no idea how it happened. She’s still working on cutting her two top teeth plus the pandemic shaking up our routine so things have been not as smooth with naps recently and I think she’s getting back in the groove finally.
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I think that the food bank fundraiser broke their website and text donations simultaneously
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Have swapped out sewing machines so the treadle is in my home office with better light. I think my whole office is a TV. My office furnishings now (chronologically starting with the newest):
Mondo list of mostly nifty things bought secondhand for cheap
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- Tiny 3-shelf Sauder bookcase, the half-height sort, ~2 years old, bought new, in the center of the room serving as a side table to
- Red La-Z-Boy recliner, age uncertain, bought ~3 years ago at Goodwill for $20
- Sauder(?) computer desk, of the high-quality self-assembly sort, bought by my parents for me as a gift when I got my master’s degree in 1993. On the south wall sort of bridging two windows (of three on that wall)
- Rickety wooden stepladder, much used, now serving as a plant stand in the southeast corner between the last south-facin window and first east-facing one. Circa 1950-60s.
- One four-drawer and one two-drawer heavy duty still filing cabinet (tall one on west wall, short one next to desk, extending desktop and holding third monitor. These are circa 1940s, rescued from a cotton mill after a flood when they were thrown out (and were fine once they dried).
*Ladderback chair with caned seat, age uncertah but 1920-1960, currently between plant stand and desk and containing one bed pillow in the seat and one cat on the bed pillow (also an antique now at 13 years and counting, but don’t tell her because she has no idea). Got the chair at a thrift store about 2 years ago for $5 because some idiot spray-painted the thing metallic gold, seat and all. Other than that it’s in pristine condition. Considering how I’m going to get the paint off the wood, but not going to bother until I have to recane it. - One minifridge in the northwest corner, way out of chronological order as it’s about ten years old, bought for $40 from a colleage and holding mostly beer now that it isn’t holding special tempting doggie food anymore. But on top is the reason it’s in this order in the chronology: one manual Royal typewriter bought for $10 at a Salvation Army at a point in my grad school years when $10 meant I wouldn’t have any hot dogs in my ramen noodles that week. Circa 1930s.
- FInally, in the northeast corner in front of another window on the east side that opens on our courtyard, is the treadle I’ve started calling the Iron Lady. She’s circa 1915.
- Oh, and I forgot because it’s mounted from the tops of the windows above the plant stand and so is above eye level at about 9 feet up: one actual silver screen that we use when we want to get all anacronistic and hook up an LED projector to watch Netflix on something bigger than a 24" monitor. Age unknown, but over 20 years for sure. Likely more.
- Finally one computer chair that’s a perfect fit for me and would have cost about $500, which I was about to pay until I found this one on the chair-getting trip at a thrift for $20. It has a tear in the leather, but the tear is on the back and I gives a damn. It’s also an unfortunate shit brown, but at a $475 discount off the same model I’d just picked at the office supply store (but told my husband I just couldn’t spend that until we’d checked the nearby thrift store just in case), I can revel in its uglitude for a few more years. Or hell, I suppose I could spray paint it gold.
I may be a nerd up in here, but I like my cool old stuff. Suppose it’s possible I am part of the cool old stuff…
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Someone remind me how I hide the long-ass list behind a cut?
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Whoops, sorry. Just (re)found it and tried to delete my ask. I’ll see if I can undelete…
ETA there’s an undelete button!
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I am sitting on my porch drinking a giant margarita and getting drunk on a Sunday evening because I don’t have to wake up early because I work from home, at least for the present time. Coronavirus sucks but I am just really reveling in the good parts of my life right now.
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I bought some reusable straws and the kiddo loves them.
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All plants are in the ground and a bunch of seeds are sown. Today’s project is sewing some lettuces in the shady bed and pulling out more vines.
My thumb is not green but I’m damn sure pretending it is.
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I realized that my phone’s screen isn’t broken. The screen protector is. Wheeeeeeee!!!
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Confidence is everything! 
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I decided not to stress about work anymore. Or even do much of it anymore.
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