I'm a perfectionist
Apr. 7th, 2004 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rimturseThere, I said it. Finally admitted to myself what everybody has been teasing me with for years. YES! All right! I did want to measure my cookie house with a protractor, I double count the beads I pack, I hate it when I'm keeping tally during a card game and someone does something ugly to my neat little rows of numbers, I gather all the loose wires and tie them together with wire-bands and tape them to the wall, I get a niggling itch if I see a painting hanging crooked on the wall.
So why do I say this? Because the place is a mess. I've been telling myself that it's okay, we don't have a lot of space and I just have to live with it until the situation changes. BUT IT'S NOT OKAY. Yesterday I realised that I wasn't kidding anyone, least of all myself. After updating the bead shop, I emptied the shelves, dragged the shelving unit to the kitchen where I gave it a wood stain. At least that way it will match the other furniture. I'm also planning to rearrange the living room/office as soon as I get the shelves back in.
Anyway, I'm staining the shelf. As it is already put together with pegs, I have to stain it as it stands. The undersides are hell to do. Only when I've finished do I realize that I could simply have turned the whole thing upside down, duh.
Cats are sleeping. Fisen thought it was great fun with an empty shelf to crawl on. He likes going high. Another resolution for when we have more space; a floor to ceiling cat tree.
So why do I say this? Because the place is a mess. I've been telling myself that it's okay, we don't have a lot of space and I just have to live with it until the situation changes. BUT IT'S NOT OKAY. Yesterday I realised that I wasn't kidding anyone, least of all myself. After updating the bead shop, I emptied the shelves, dragged the shelving unit to the kitchen where I gave it a wood stain. At least that way it will match the other furniture. I'm also planning to rearrange the living room/office as soon as I get the shelves back in.
Anyway, I'm staining the shelf. As it is already put together with pegs, I have to stain it as it stands. The undersides are hell to do. Only when I've finished do I realize that I could simply have turned the whole thing upside down, duh.
Cats are sleeping. Fisen thought it was great fun with an empty shelf to crawl on. He likes going high. Another resolution for when we have more space; a floor to ceiling cat tree.
