well, hello! :3
i'm gonna stop telling myself i'll get on here more, because every time i do i end up getting busy and then that doesn't happen, but for a brief second i'm here and i have stuff going on in my life i'd like to share, so let's get into that!
the biggest thing right now is that our home is currently being renovated.
it's been about 20 years almost since we've made any major changes and feel like it could stand some updating, so that's fully underway as we speak!
they've gotten the bathroom downstairs and my bathroom upstairs almost completely done and the other rooms upstairs have been painted, i think the painter just needs to touch up a few places but he said he'd wait until everything was fully done. they've also taken up all the carpet upstairs and put in new flooring.
i had thought for some reason that this project would be like...work on one room, get it completely done and then move on to another room, but it seems like we're dipping our toes into multiple ponds at once with this, so hey, whatever gets it done, i'm just excited to see it when it's all finished!
right now they're in the process of getting my room and my closet painted which took a while because i had so much shit hanging on the walls in both rooms that the painter guy kept having to mud and sand over the little holes in walls, but today he was able to finally put the first coat of paint on, so i'm excited!
i went with a lovely dark green color (surprise, surprise) and literally no one besides me likes it, but i don't care!! i've always wanted darker walls and i think the color itself is beautiful! :P
it has been kinda, rough, though because as of right now i've been moved to one of the other rooms and because they need space to work in whichever room they've been in we keep having to move all the stuff that's upstairs from one room to the next.
we have these great big bookshelves upstairs that have so many books i've already had to move twice and there's still....so much other stuff! and as of right now a lot of it is crammed into the room i'm sleeping in.
i pretty much just have a path that i can get to my bed and the rest of the room is just...stuff. on top of that, we needed something to put on the windows in that room because otherwise i'd wake up at 7 am on the weekends once the sun comes up, so the painter guy used some of the paper they put on the floors to cover the windows for me, so now it's this room filled with stuff that's go no sunlight and while sometimes it can be cozy, now that it's been about a month of me being in here i'm ready to be out of there.
all in good time, though and any time i start to get anxious about it i just keep telling myself that the end result will be worth it and that this also won't be forever, it's just a temporary thing.
and speaking of temporary things, this will likely end up being the case, but my work offered me overtime again!
evidently someone in another office quit unexpectedly and so they need some help getting caught up on referrals and i was included in an email saying, "hey, if you want some overtime to try to help out with this, have at it!" so i take that to mean i'm no longer in overtime time-out (at least for this specific situation) and i've been trying to grab up as much of that as i can.
i'm not sure how long it'll last, especially since it seems like the other people included in that email are also taking advantage of the opportunity to get some overtime, so eventually there just won't be anything for me to actually do, but for a little bit here it's at least been nice to have
but wait, if you thought all of that wasn't enough to keep me busy, there's more!!
after like, what, a year ago of applying, the library closest to me finally reached out to me about volunteering!!
they needed some help dusting their shelves off so i said sure thing and so for the past few weekends i've been spending a few hours either on fridays or saturdays dusting my little heart out!
it's funny because the first day that i was there and they were showing me how to do it and everything i arrogantly thought, "i'll have most of this done by the time i leave today" and boy howdy was i wrong!!! i started at the end of the adult fiction section a few weeks ago and i'm only just now up to stephen king. there are still so, so many shelves and i've barely even touched anything on the kid's side, although i think i got all the dvds over there
in any case, i'm not sure too how long this gig will last, if they'll just have me do the shelves until they're all done and then that's it or if there will be other opportunities, but for the time being it's been really nice. i just put in my headphones and take my little library cart and dusting cloth and get to work and it's usually not too busy in there so i'm not in anybody's way or anything and it's nice to just focus on something like that and turn my brain off for a bit. i'm also really happy because i'd been looking for community things i could do and had applied to some others, but none had gotten back to me, so it's nice to feel like even in some teeny tiny way that i'm helping out and making things nice for other people.
i still don't know that i'd ever want to work in a library full time, but i definitely enjoy getting to spend a few hours there every week. it's so peaceful and nice to see what everyone else is getting up to. there was a group of ladies there one day who have a basket making club. some kids drawing pictures of playing with blocks while they're grandparents or parents hang out nearby and read a book. people in there studying or maybe writing something creative on their laptops. i think one woman was doing some scrapbooking one of the days i was in there. and of course people just sitting around and reading! really lovely atmosphere. i also keep getting really cute library carts to work with, too! :D (one had a bedazzled sticker of a cat playing guitar and another had a bedazzled cat holding a watermelon slice, which I'm hoping is also a pro-Palestine nod and if so i love them even more!)
so yeah, i've been quite the busy little bee lately! if i'm not working or volunteering i'm moving stuff around for these renovations so i've been a little extra tired as of late, but in a way it's also good because the renovations will be really nice once they're all done, although i don't like working overtime i do enjoy the result of working overtime and although it wears me out a little i do really enjoy helping out at the library! :3
unfortunately i won't be able to volunteer this weekend because i did go ahead and end up getting sick this week (thanks, mom! i know it's not on me because i've been masking everywhere and wear one while the renovators are here, plus she was sick first, so...there's that!) so i'm gonna stay home and keep my germs to myself and try to rest and recover, but hopefully by next week i'll be back at it (which i really hope so because i think my room will be done next week so i'll need to be able to start moving all my stuff back in...fingers crossed! kinda bummed i wasn't able to move back in sooner because with this cold and the lack of sleep it's caused me i really wish if nothing else i could just be back in my own bed, but oh well! it is what it is and neither this cold nor me being in a different room is going to last forever)
so yeah, i think that's pretty much it! it doesn't really sound like much when i type it all out, but to me it feels like a lot! part of me wonders if i'm not biting off more than i can chew, but another part of me feels like i needed this, so i guess we'll see.
for now, though, i'm going to get back to taking it easy. i was supposed to have a doctor's appointment today, but i went ahead and canceled that so i'm going to enjoy having a day where there isn't anything around the house or otherwise that i just absolutely need to do (although i miiiight get online in a little bit and see if there's any work i can do to get a little more overtime because every day this week it's been all i can do to just get through my regular hours, plus we had some storms the past couple of days that have taken the power out, so yesterday i ended up getting behind an entire hour just because of that, but if there's not or if i don't feel like it then no big deal)
i know everything right now is....pretty fucking horrible all around, but i hope if you're reading this you have something right now that's bringing you even a little bit of joy or making you feel like you're doing something good even if it doesn't feel like it's that big. and as always, i hope everything gets better for all of us sooner rather than later. although i'm not always here on this website, i do check in from time to time and my messages are always open if anyone needs to vent or whatever else. love you <3
oh, and p.s. i'll also probably wait until all the renovations are done before i post pictures (namely because i don't want to update my phone so tumblr mobile won't even let me make posts anymore, let alone upload photos and it's a bit of a hassle on the computer which is what i'm using now, so whenever it's all said and done i'll make a post showing the befores and afters and all that, but that'll be....later when i'm not quite literally sick and tired! XP)
