We just finished painting the bedroom, rearranging and making the place a bit homey. It only took us a year!
It looks so good that I think the only proper description is “SMOKIN’! Yeah!” I even painted the ceiling! The ceiling color is a bit brighter than normal ceiling color but the name of the color is White Smoke, which I thought went well with the Aqua Smoke color of the wall. Smokin’, yeah!
The furniture all got rearranged with this moving here and that moving there. It’s strange how rotating a bed can change so much. Waking up in the middle of that first night becomes just a little disorienting. “Wait… but I’m at home.”
Anyways, for over a year, we’ve had one chilly wall; yep, one lone painted wall desperately in need of a second coat. (rimshot!) Then, in a burst of energy, we painted the ceiling, all four walls and the trim in a little over a weekend. I’m beginning to learn that productivity is much more satisfying than I previously thought.
I saw a home improvement show on one of the cable channels recently where the host made a comment that went something like, “All these unfinished projects are just creating a low level of stress in your life,” and at the end of the show, the homeowners were like “I didn’t even know I was stressed!” So I’m going to call it background stress.
I have quite a bit of this background stress in my house. The bathroom needs work, the basement needs work, the doors, the windows, the gutters, just about everything needs work. The garbage disposal just broke! They say it’s true of most homeowners. I say it’s all part of growing up.
I turned thirty, recently. I guess that's part of growing up, too. To make it significant, I'm trying to be more productive, to get more done, and to wipe out the background stress.
Maybe the good feeling that comes with these productive displays, checking things off the to-do list, is more from relieving this background stress than the sense of accomplishment. I don’t know though, I can’t say that the bedroom is complete until a few minor things are corrected, which it might be another year or so before they get done.
It looks so good that I think the only proper description is “SMOKIN’! Yeah!” I even painted the ceiling! The ceiling color is a bit brighter than normal ceiling color but the name of the color is White Smoke, which I thought went well with the Aqua Smoke color of the wall. Smokin’, yeah!The furniture all got rearranged with this moving here and that moving there. It’s strange how rotating a bed can change so much. Waking up in the middle of that first night becomes just a little disorienting. “Wait… but I’m at home.”
Anyways, for over a year, we’ve had one chilly wall; yep, one lone painted wall desperately in need of a second coat. (rimshot!) Then, in a burst of energy, we painted the ceiling, all four walls and the trim in a little over a weekend. I’m beginning to learn that productivity is much more satisfying than I previously thought.
I saw a home improvement show on one of the cable channels recently where the host made a comment that went something like, “All these unfinished projects are just creating a low level of stress in your life,” and at the end of the show, the homeowners were like “I didn’t even know I was stressed!” So I’m going to call it background stress.
I have quite a bit of this background stress in my house. The bathroom needs work, the basement needs work, the doors, the windows, the gutters, just about everything needs work. The garbage disposal just broke! They say it’s true of most homeowners. I say it’s all part of growing up.
I turned thirty, recently. I guess that's part of growing up, too. To make it significant, I'm trying to be more productive, to get more done, and to wipe out the background stress.
Maybe the good feeling that comes with these productive displays, checking things off the to-do list, is more from relieving this background stress than the sense of accomplishment. I don’t know though, I can’t say that the bedroom is complete until a few minor things are corrected, which it might be another year or so before they get done.
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Background stress can be a real game changer!
tjd
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