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Jan. 13th, 2023 12:06 pmIt occurred to me, while I was in the throes of a major hunger-induced ADHD Moment at 10:45 wherein I was trying to, at the same time, (a) figure out what to eat, (b) buy curtains for the bedroom, (c) figure out where to get a paint chip of the wall color for the bedroom, and (d) decide if it was worth waiting 15 minutes to just eat lunch instead, that I now work from home and if I was done with the immediate workload, I could just...take the afternoon off and go buy curtains. MIND. BLOWN.
So things got sorted out.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
myrialux pulled the paint can in question out of the garage and dipped a popsicle stick in it to make a paint chip for me (it's 10 years old; I'd be surprised if Home Despot had that particular color of chip), then after I offered to go pick up lunch looked at me and decided I shouldn't be driving in that state so we went out to Raising Cane's and ate an early lunch in the car while listening to the current audiobook (Garth Nix's Sabriel, read by Tim Curry), and reassured me that yes, I could just go out and buy curtains. So once a few more tweaks on this cover are approved by the author.. it's curtains for me!
Re: the curtains--I have hated the way our main bedroom is set up ever since we moved into this house, and never managed to figure out how to arrange it, so I ended up finding an interior designer on Fiverr, sent them the measurements, some photos, and the constraints* I had, and she sent me back a set of 4 renders that make the room look CALM and RELAXING and NOT LIKE A COLLEGE DORM so I am over the moon with it and now have something to more-or-less aim for in arrangement, decor, etc.
*The biggest constraint was our sound-dampening curtains, which need to stay because of the very busy road behind our house that occasionally hosts illegal drag racing at night, but I said I was fine with covering them up with other curtains. Second biggest constraint was the couch, which is mostly being stored in this bedroom until we move on the off chance that we have a place for it in whatever new house we move into. Yes, I know, not really the best thing but I don't want to sell it or toss it, and it will provide a nice place to sit and read, provided we stop piling random stuff on top of it (hah).
edit: Also, rhythmic gymnastics with your dog is a thing, and you should watch this YouTube video of a woman and her border collie (I think?) competing. Energetic part starts about 2 minutes in.
So things got sorted out.
myrialux pulled the paint can in question out of the garage and dipped a popsicle stick in it to make a paint chip for me (it's 10 years old; I'd be surprised if Home Despot had that particular color of chip), then after I offered to go pick up lunch looked at me and decided I shouldn't be driving in that state so we went out to Raising Cane's and ate an early lunch in the car while listening to the current audiobook (Garth Nix's Sabriel, read by Tim Curry), and reassured me that yes, I could just go out and buy curtains. So once a few more tweaks on this cover are approved by the author.. it's curtains for me!Re: the curtains--I have hated the way our main bedroom is set up ever since we moved into this house, and never managed to figure out how to arrange it, so I ended up finding an interior designer on Fiverr, sent them the measurements, some photos, and the constraints* I had, and she sent me back a set of 4 renders that make the room look CALM and RELAXING and NOT LIKE A COLLEGE DORM so I am over the moon with it and now have something to more-or-less aim for in arrangement, decor, etc.
*The biggest constraint was our sound-dampening curtains, which need to stay because of the very busy road behind our house that occasionally hosts illegal drag racing at night, but I said I was fine with covering them up with other curtains. Second biggest constraint was the couch, which is mostly being stored in this bedroom until we move on the off chance that we have a place for it in whatever new house we move into. Yes, I know, not really the best thing but I don't want to sell it or toss it, and it will provide a nice place to sit and read, provided we stop piling random stuff on top of it (hah).
edit: Also, rhythmic gymnastics with your dog is a thing, and you should watch this YouTube video of a woman and her border collie (I think?) competing. Energetic part starts about 2 minutes in.
