"New House" is an increasingly-inaccurate tag...two yeears ago our offer was accepted*

[cosmolinguist]

* According to Facebook's On This Day feature, anyway.

Went swimming with haggis and Katie today, first time I've been able to join them in more than a week of trying to go together. haggis and I are going to try out the yoga class tomorrow evening, whiich I'm intrigued by. I've never done yoga.

Then Tea Hive, then haggis got me my Christmas present, which was to drive me to B&Q and buy me a ladder because it'd be impossible for me to get one home on the bus.

This is unreasonabbly exciting. A lot of stuff at B&Q was exciting: well-designed kitchens! Nice light fixtures! I had a moment of oh god I'm so old and boring..., etc., but part of me didn't even feel it as I was thinking it. Part of me was already thinking well, actually... DIY stores were always boring as hell when I was a kid but that doesn't mean being an adult is boring.

I was bored when I was a kid because I didn't have any say in the choices being made, couldn't pick a new light fittng or be allowed up a ladder so of course I was bored. Now I can do what I want (well exept I have no money but still), and that's never boring. In a similar way, grocery shopping, which I considered its own circle of hell as a kid, got a lot more fun when I went to college and could buy whatever I wanted (until my money ran out).

It might be exhausting (there's a lot of decision-fatigue in my life!), but not boring.

I wouldn't want to be a kid again. I feel enough like one when I'm back at my parents, and that's bbad enough even knowing now what I didn't know then (like that the internet exists, and I can escape in a week!).

Comments

[xotiffany.livejournal.com]

I appreciate and relate to your comparison of child vs adult thinking. We are coming up on a year in our home and there are so many things we need to do that excite me rather than fill me with dread.

[cosmolinguist]

I still have a lot of dread, but that's because we can't afford stuff, which at least makes a change from not being able to do stuff. :)

[xotiffany.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. We have more to do than our budget allows too. I find myself tallying things in my head and re-arranging the order of priority quite often.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I've redesigned a kitchen twice, and the decision fatigue was one of the hardest things about the whole process!

[tigtogiba34.livejournal.com]

Just thinking of the adventure it would be to take a ladder on a bus though.