Saturday, September 21
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Nice weather again today, cooler.
Though today felt a bit rushed overall, there were just so many things I wanted to do/get finished.
Before I got up, my Sweetie went to help our friends again with clearing their parent's home. They have been working on this for the last couple of YEARS, since she went into a home (though she still keeps asking about her things, and getting upset about not having them with her).
Once again, my husband helped them pull up heavy furniture out of the basement and took another big load to the dump. I haven't seen this house, but I can't wrap my head around how he's described it. I mean, have you ever heard of it taking anyone two plus years to empty a house?
My husband says it's partly because there are good things layered with the garbage, so they can't just throw it all away. There are collector's coins layered among old newspapers and useful items in bags of garbage.
He says they had many couches and chairs and such in the basement, and just piles and piles of magazines and just more and more stuff piled in every single room, though much of it badly damaged by mice and time. Most of the furniture was straight up garbage.
Sometimes I thing WE have way too much stuff, even though I am fairly good about going through things regularly and getting rid of things we don't use, and tossing things if they are damaged beyond use or reasonable repair.
I also don't bring home multiple couches and stacking them one on top of the other in the basement "just in case" or whatever prompts people to do things like that.
Really, to have that much stuff, bringing it home has to be like a job. They would have to be bringing things home ALL THE TIME, every day to get that much stuff accumulated. Every day something like a box of books or an old chair or another bag of clothes, and another fishing boat every couple of years (there were something like five or six fishing boats in the back yard of the first house belonging to the same parents, yes, they owned two houses in town completely full, and somewhere there is a farm house and buildings full that they haven't addressed).
I know I own too much stuff, but I already understand that if things are all in piles and boxes and I can't get to it to use it, then I might as well not own it, much less buy more of the same things I already don't use.
When he got back from helping our friends, he finished cutting down the chokecherry tree we partly cut down earlier this year and got the limbs onto the trailer.
When I got up, I did normal chores then gathered all the stuff I wanted to go to the dump like the household garbage, anything in the bins outside, some clay based cat litter that can't be composted, and the recycling (there is a bin at the dump).
So we got rid of a good truck load of garbage, and the tree limbs.
We came home and got cleaned up, and went to town early enough to spend a bit of time in the pottery studio.
Not enough time for my husband to throw. he begs out of it most of the time because he's out of practice, etc., but whenever he actually does manage to throw, he enjoys it. I think he forgets that part since it's likely been a year since he last threw something. He always just comes along and does something like conditions clay for me. That's what he did today was just condition a bunch of recycled clay.
I trimmed the tea pot parts I threw earlier, and put them all together. I trimmed the body for a mug and put a handle on it as well. It felt rushed, but I got a lot done.
With my husband's help cleaning, we were in and out in under two hours, which is some kind of speed record for me.
It was okay just to get things done, but is not the same as having time to just relax and enjoy being there.
Then we went to the little theater again, and watched a live band. They were really good; the lead singer had been in a different band a few years ago that we saw live too, so I figured this band would be good too.
It wasn't a big crowd, maybe only 30 people in a venue that could have held 100 if they were full, so that had to be a bit disappointing for the band.
Yet, the music was great, and very dance able. The crowd was not dancing though, and I WANTED TO DANCE, so I could tell that everyone was waiting for someone else to start things, but I wasn't going to go up there and dance by myself. I saw a couple of people at the next table who were kind of dancing in their seats, and I could tell they wanted to dance, so I went over there and said "hey, let's go dance, hopefully someone else will come up too".
It worked! There were two couples at that table who got up and danced, and that got my husband up, and though mostly it was the six of us dancing, for the rest of the night here and there other people got up and danced too.
They were kind of rockabilly sounding, and some of their music was rearranged covers, and others were their own songs. Here's one of the songs they played, though they sound so much better in person: https://youtu.be/ySYaz1dny88?si=5trHs0rFLdqFjoaN
Anyhow, I enjoyed it very much, and I think my Sweetie enjoyed it too, though he's not much of a dancer. I don't think I am a GOOD dancer, I just don't care what I look like and I'm enthusiastic.
Nice weather again today, cooler.
Though today felt a bit rushed overall, there were just so many things I wanted to do/get finished.
Before I got up, my Sweetie went to help our friends again with clearing their parent's home. They have been working on this for the last couple of YEARS, since she went into a home (though she still keeps asking about her things, and getting upset about not having them with her).
Once again, my husband helped them pull up heavy furniture out of the basement and took another big load to the dump. I haven't seen this house, but I can't wrap my head around how he's described it. I mean, have you ever heard of it taking anyone two plus years to empty a house?
My husband says it's partly because there are good things layered with the garbage, so they can't just throw it all away. There are collector's coins layered among old newspapers and useful items in bags of garbage.
He says they had many couches and chairs and such in the basement, and just piles and piles of magazines and just more and more stuff piled in every single room, though much of it badly damaged by mice and time. Most of the furniture was straight up garbage.
Sometimes I thing WE have way too much stuff, even though I am fairly good about going through things regularly and getting rid of things we don't use, and tossing things if they are damaged beyond use or reasonable repair.
I also don't bring home multiple couches and stacking them one on top of the other in the basement "just in case" or whatever prompts people to do things like that.
Really, to have that much stuff, bringing it home has to be like a job. They would have to be bringing things home ALL THE TIME, every day to get that much stuff accumulated. Every day something like a box of books or an old chair or another bag of clothes, and another fishing boat every couple of years (there were something like five or six fishing boats in the back yard of the first house belonging to the same parents, yes, they owned two houses in town completely full, and somewhere there is a farm house and buildings full that they haven't addressed).
I know I own too much stuff, but I already understand that if things are all in piles and boxes and I can't get to it to use it, then I might as well not own it, much less buy more of the same things I already don't use.
When he got back from helping our friends, he finished cutting down the chokecherry tree we partly cut down earlier this year and got the limbs onto the trailer.
When I got up, I did normal chores then gathered all the stuff I wanted to go to the dump like the household garbage, anything in the bins outside, some clay based cat litter that can't be composted, and the recycling (there is a bin at the dump).
So we got rid of a good truck load of garbage, and the tree limbs.
We came home and got cleaned up, and went to town early enough to spend a bit of time in the pottery studio.
Not enough time for my husband to throw. he begs out of it most of the time because he's out of practice, etc., but whenever he actually does manage to throw, he enjoys it. I think he forgets that part since it's likely been a year since he last threw something. He always just comes along and does something like conditions clay for me. That's what he did today was just condition a bunch of recycled clay.
I trimmed the tea pot parts I threw earlier, and put them all together. I trimmed the body for a mug and put a handle on it as well. It felt rushed, but I got a lot done.
With my husband's help cleaning, we were in and out in under two hours, which is some kind of speed record for me.
It was okay just to get things done, but is not the same as having time to just relax and enjoy being there.
Then we went to the little theater again, and watched a live band. They were really good; the lead singer had been in a different band a few years ago that we saw live too, so I figured this band would be good too.
It wasn't a big crowd, maybe only 30 people in a venue that could have held 100 if they were full, so that had to be a bit disappointing for the band.
Yet, the music was great, and very dance able. The crowd was not dancing though, and I WANTED TO DANCE, so I could tell that everyone was waiting for someone else to start things, but I wasn't going to go up there and dance by myself. I saw a couple of people at the next table who were kind of dancing in their seats, and I could tell they wanted to dance, so I went over there and said "hey, let's go dance, hopefully someone else will come up too".
It worked! There were two couples at that table who got up and danced, and that got my husband up, and though mostly it was the six of us dancing, for the rest of the night here and there other people got up and danced too.
They were kind of rockabilly sounding, and some of their music was rearranged covers, and others were their own songs. Here's one of the songs they played, though they sound so much better in person: https://youtu.be/ySYaz1dny88?si=5trHs0rFLdqFjoaN
Anyhow, I enjoyed it very much, and I think my Sweetie enjoyed it too, though he's not much of a dancer. I don't think I am a GOOD dancer, I just don't care what I look like and I'm enthusiastic.
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Date: 2024-09-25 05:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-25 07:23 am (UTC)I enjoyed it very much. I think that when you hear music that makes you want to dance, but you're too self-conscious to do so, is a very sad thing. I'm rarely brave enough to dance alone, but hoo boy, I will dance all night if even a handful of brave souls will dance with me.
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Date: 2024-09-29 07:50 am (UTC)