In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Thanks SIG. It's been a while since I've got 1st. :)
I did. Magnum mini bars. Vanilla ice cream covered in dark chocolate. Very tasty.
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All the porch trim is up. I don't have the crown yet, but I'll either get it from somebody else or wait for a sale/clearance. Not paying Biden* prices for specialty wood like that right now.
My buddy came by and dropped off a big tub of spackle he used for his own bathroom DIY project, so there's another $12 saved there. I'm going to spackle tomorrow and maybe start trimming out stuff in my living room while that's drying.
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Quote:I could use a little of that. If you could bottle and sell it, you'd be a wealthy man
SIGNY: Just tell me how you stay so motivated. I've had a hard time getting my rear in gear the past few days.
SIX: It's probably more manic than motivated.
Quote:Well, that's the downside, innit? Too bad you can't just turn it on and off when you need to.
SIX You know that I'm prone to falling into a state where I'm getting nothing done for weeks or even months on end.
Quote:I'd love to see some of those "to dos" crossed off my list, that would be a big motivator. Maybe i should start with something small but what ive been hesitant to fo. Sheer relief alone would be a kickstart!
SIX; The warm weather surely helps. I don't function well when it's colder than 60 degrees, so I've got to take the gift that I've been given. It gets cold next week, probably until March or April. Two winters ago I managed to work nearly every day on my kitchen despite the terrible cold weather that year, but then last year was a lot more mild and there were about 3 months there I didn't do anything but watch YouTube and play video games.
Getting a huge backlog of to-do on the DONE list is a great motivator though too. When I first started working on my house again it all seemed so insurmountable. But now that I'm a few years into it and I've been able to cash in some of my favors to get things done I couldn't on my own it's really all coming together.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Heading out a little earlier than usual tomorrow. Hoping to miss some of the rain that is hitting my area.
Got rain this evening.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I could use a little of that. If you could bottle and sell it, you'd be a wealthy man
SIGNY: Just tell me how you stay so motivated. I've had a hard time getting my rear in gear the past few days.
SIX: It's probably more manic than motivated.Quote:Well, that's the downside, innit? Too bad you can't just turn it on and off when you need to.
SIX You know that I'm prone to falling into a state where I'm getting nothing done for weeks or even months on end.
Yeah... well my mom and my brother are both Bi-Polar. I had an uncle who was OCD really bad and it appears that my youngest brother, despite being "treated" for it at a much earlier age is also going to struggle with it really hard in adulthood.
I'm sure I'm somewhere in that mix myself. The hoarding. The ups and downs in productivity. The addiction tenancies. The ability to eat the same thing every day. The impossible standards I put on other people after I've put them on myself. The quickness to anger.
Fortunately the worst of my addictions are behind me, as well as the hoarding tenancies. I still have a hoard, but it's a digital hoard and for the most part it's extremely well organized and backed up. That is why I have to stay away from "modern" video games made after the early 2000's because I can play a game from the Fallout series and pick up every dented tin can I find and have a locker back home for all of them.
Part of the reason I've chosen the lifestyle that I have is to cope with my deficiencies and not burden anybody else with them. When I'm on point, I'm on point, but I can fall off that horse and have a real hard time getting back up on it.
I'm confident that whoever said "strike while the iron is hot" was Bi-Polar/OCD.
Quote:I'd love to see some of those "to dos" crossed off my list, that would be a big motivator. Maybe i should start with something small but what ive been hesitant to fo. Sheer relief alone would be a kickstart!
SIX; The warm weather surely helps. I don't function well when it's colder than 60 degrees, so I've got to take the gift that I've been given. It gets cold next week, probably until March or April. Two winters ago I managed to work nearly every day on my kitchen despite the terrible cold weather that year, but then last year was a lot more mild and there were about 3 months there I didn't do anything but watch YouTube and play video games.
Getting a huge backlog of to-do on the DONE list is a great motivator though too. When I first started working on my house again it all seemed so insurmountable. But now that I'm a few years into it and I've been able to cash in some of my favors to get things done I couldn't on my own it's really all coming together.
You'll get 'em. Just got to start with one and try to keep on it. Small things are good. They're quick to put on your DONE list and usually part of something larger on your list.
A willingness to be able to bounce around from thing to thing will help you too. I haven't been as hyper focused on one issue this year and that resulted in getting a lot more done before winter than I would have if I refused to work on something else while I was already doing something.
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Thanks for the pep talk, SIX.
Unlike you, I work better in cold weather. I was never a big fan of summer to begin with, since our bedrooms were stiflimg and too hot to sleep well.
The weather really changed around here. Some nights have gotten to the low 60s and we had early rain, so its been an unusually cool wet fall. Not turned on the heat, yet, but I put extra blankets/ comforters on the beds and am making soups and stews ... no more salad!
Anyway, like I said, thanks for the pep talk. Im gonna get going now!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Back from my walk and it was awful going out but better coming back.
I actually baked off the last six of the mini pre-made tart shells that were in the freezer and now an apple is cooking in a pot on the stove with some water and sugar. Home made apple sauce for the shells.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Thanks for the pep talk, SIX.
Unlike you, I work better in cold weather. I was never a big fan of summer to begin with, since our bedrooms were stiflimg and too hot to sleep well.
The weather really changed around here. Some nights have gotten to the low 60s and we had early rain, so its been an unusually cool wet fall. Not turned on the heat, yet, but I put extra blankets/ comforters on the beds and am making soups and stews ... no more salad!
Anyway, like I said, thanks for the pep talk. Im gonna get going now!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
No worries.
Some solidarity here too... I got about 45 minutes into working on spackle after filing down a few miters and tapping a few brad nails that weren't sunk all the way in and I just didn't feel it. It's our last 70 degree day, but it's muggy and nothing but dark clouds as far as the eye could see. So I took a nap.
At least one of my friends stopped by. I've been holding on to a bunch of scrap metal and even though I couldn't hold on to the old shed door anymore he got the rest of it out of my garage for me.
I dunno. I might be done working on the porch this year. I'm happy with the progress. I might move on to putting up trim in the living room and kitchen while I've got all the tools out and my garage isn't filled up with my car while we still have about a week worth of nice days left.
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Well, it may not have been as productive as usual, but you got the scrap metal out, so that's progress, isn't it?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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Out for my walk in a bit in the sunshine. The rain has stopped for now. Lots of areas were worried about flooding last night. Hope it didn't happen.
The wind also hit and my building had a slight power outage. Good thing there is a generator in here as it never went completely out. Light in the kitchen flickered and the HD box on the tv went out for a minute but luckily nothing disasterous.
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