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Jul. 3rd, 2025 02:13 amI know if's not malicious, but dear God I am so tired of KK breaking my stuff. So far the tally is three (3!) of my antique dining room chairs, a hole in the wall of the old house, and today she shattered the glass of one of my framed art pieces. The chairs are the most expensive part of it, since I'm going to have to find someone who can repair them with the proper technique and materials. I have eight chairs in total, and most of them are in kind of rough shape anyway (the legs are loose on most of them), but we're running out of places for guests to sit when they visit, goddamn.
Like I said, it's not malicious, but I can't help but notice she never breaks any of her own stuff, it's always something of mine, and it's getting under my skin a little bit these days. Again, it's one of those things that probably wouldn't bother me under normal circumstances, but my emotional resilience is at an all-time low and so it's hard not to take everything personally. I can't even be truly angry about the art frame, because it was propped up against a wall in my bedroom, and she knocked it over while helping to build the desk portion of my Murphy bed, so I can't get mad about it because she was under no obligation to help me in the first place.
*lies on the floor*
The good news is that the Murphy bed and desk are about 90% done. There are two sets of doors left to attach (one to the bottom of the desk, one to one of the shelves), and then I will be all set! The desk is finicky to put back in because that part of the unit isn't secured to the wall the way the bed is, and I have to give it a bit of a hard yank in order to engage the mechanism properly to push it into the unit, but that pulls the whole thing away from the wall. KK is thinking we may need to improvise and anchor it either into the wall (we have a few anchoring pins) or to the bed portion, which is itself already anchored to the wall. Otherwise, apart from having to figure out how to access the electrical outlet (it's a tiny bit of a narrow space), I am almost ready to unpack all my computer stuff and work out the best configuration for it all. I am low-key pretty excited to get my room fully unpacked and functional so that I'm not surrounded by a sea of boxes all the time.
The bed itself is surprisingly comfortable, and although adding the fake doors to it has made it a lot heavier, it's still pretty easy to put up and pull down. The only hassle is that I have to strip the pillows and bedclothes off each time I want to put it up, because it won't fit otherwise, and then I need to remake the bed afterward. It's annoying, but I remember doing this for a year or so when I first started working in Ottawa when I was renting a room that was almost the same size. Long-time readers may remember the fun fact that the Murphy bed in that room actually blocked the access to the door in the room, effectively locking me in every time I wanted to sleep. It was twelve-ish years ago, but I remember that, while it was a bit annoying to have to strip the bed every day, it also wasn't the end of the world.
My goal now is to get the house fully functional by July 23rd, which is when KK is scheduled to have her surgery and her aunt will be coming to stay with us. I don't want to have an older woman (and a guest!) being forced to navigate around boxes and other chaos the whole time. It will just make everything much easier if I have everything unpacked and in its place by then.
So that's it for the lengthy and very boring update about the bed/house.
Outside of my tiny sphere of influence, the world has been getting progressively more... I can't think of a good adjective for it. But yeah, everything continues to be on fire, both literally and metaphorically. The US appears to have gone to war with Iran, except maybe not, except probably yes? Either way, World War III hasn't quite erupted yet. Climate change continues to wreak havoc on everything from wildfires to wild swings in temperature locally. Ukraine is still embattled and the US appears to be withdrawing the support it had promised in exchange for mineral rights. The current Liberal government in Canada has decided to focus more on defense spending rather than, say, I don't know, investing in ANY of the current crises we're facing (housing, cost of living, collapsing health care, collapsing education, neglected indigenous communities, etc.), which is super fucking dandy. That's what we get for voting for a Conservative in Liberal clothing, I guess. Better than Poilievre, but my God, we had some better progressive alternatives and we STILL couldn't bring ourselves to vote outside of the binary. For fuck's sake.
*sigh*
I may try to write a longer post about external events. I know that everyone is dying to hear the next installment of the Murphy Bed Saga, but I also use this space as a way to document things for myself, so I think it's important for me to write down at least some impressions of what's happening in the wider world so that when I read back in a few years, I'll have some idea of what the fuck was happening during this time.
Like I said, it's not malicious, but I can't help but notice she never breaks any of her own stuff, it's always something of mine, and it's getting under my skin a little bit these days. Again, it's one of those things that probably wouldn't bother me under normal circumstances, but my emotional resilience is at an all-time low and so it's hard not to take everything personally. I can't even be truly angry about the art frame, because it was propped up against a wall in my bedroom, and she knocked it over while helping to build the desk portion of my Murphy bed, so I can't get mad about it because she was under no obligation to help me in the first place.
*lies on the floor*
The good news is that the Murphy bed and desk are about 90% done. There are two sets of doors left to attach (one to the bottom of the desk, one to one of the shelves), and then I will be all set! The desk is finicky to put back in because that part of the unit isn't secured to the wall the way the bed is, and I have to give it a bit of a hard yank in order to engage the mechanism properly to push it into the unit, but that pulls the whole thing away from the wall. KK is thinking we may need to improvise and anchor it either into the wall (we have a few anchoring pins) or to the bed portion, which is itself already anchored to the wall. Otherwise, apart from having to figure out how to access the electrical outlet (it's a tiny bit of a narrow space), I am almost ready to unpack all my computer stuff and work out the best configuration for it all. I am low-key pretty excited to get my room fully unpacked and functional so that I'm not surrounded by a sea of boxes all the time.
The bed itself is surprisingly comfortable, and although adding the fake doors to it has made it a lot heavier, it's still pretty easy to put up and pull down. The only hassle is that I have to strip the pillows and bedclothes off each time I want to put it up, because it won't fit otherwise, and then I need to remake the bed afterward. It's annoying, but I remember doing this for a year or so when I first started working in Ottawa when I was renting a room that was almost the same size. Long-time readers may remember the fun fact that the Murphy bed in that room actually blocked the access to the door in the room, effectively locking me in every time I wanted to sleep. It was twelve-ish years ago, but I remember that, while it was a bit annoying to have to strip the bed every day, it also wasn't the end of the world.
My goal now is to get the house fully functional by July 23rd, which is when KK is scheduled to have her surgery and her aunt will be coming to stay with us. I don't want to have an older woman (and a guest!) being forced to navigate around boxes and other chaos the whole time. It will just make everything much easier if I have everything unpacked and in its place by then.
So that's it for the lengthy and very boring update about the bed/house.
Outside of my tiny sphere of influence, the world has been getting progressively more... I can't think of a good adjective for it. But yeah, everything continues to be on fire, both literally and metaphorically. The US appears to have gone to war with Iran, except maybe not, except probably yes? Either way, World War III hasn't quite erupted yet. Climate change continues to wreak havoc on everything from wildfires to wild swings in temperature locally. Ukraine is still embattled and the US appears to be withdrawing the support it had promised in exchange for mineral rights. The current Liberal government in Canada has decided to focus more on defense spending rather than, say, I don't know, investing in ANY of the current crises we're facing (housing, cost of living, collapsing health care, collapsing education, neglected indigenous communities, etc.), which is super fucking dandy. That's what we get for voting for a Conservative in Liberal clothing, I guess. Better than Poilievre, but my God, we had some better progressive alternatives and we STILL couldn't bring ourselves to vote outside of the binary. For fuck's sake.
*sigh*
I may try to write a longer post about external events. I know that everyone is dying to hear the next installment of the Murphy Bed Saga, but I also use this space as a way to document things for myself, so I think it's important for me to write down at least some impressions of what's happening in the wider world so that when I read back in a few years, I'll have some idea of what the fuck was happening during this time.
