Starting to feel a little claustrophobic with all of the winters accumulated junk hanging around as of late. Did a deep dive clean up of my office, which resulted in me hanging two framed posters I’ve had for at least a decade, possibly only eight years or so. Opening some packages of pens and pencils, and throwing away twenty one year old paints that had gone rock solid. It was my very pricey high viscosity, high pigment white and black paints. No way to revitalize them at this point. The cheapo plastic containers they came in had poorly fitting lids, and my aluminum foil cap/insert didn’t hold up over all that time. Oh well. No point holding on to twenty one year old spoilt paint. More room on the shelf for my Murphy’s Oil, and Windex bottles. Get those off of my work surface. I also need to take some wood working supplies out to the shop, but as I don’t want it to warp, I have to keep it inside for now. I just want it gone! Damnit, but not ruined. That shit was expensive. I also took the time to build a second alligator clip tree to house my new 4.5″ high clips. Get them out of their wrappers and onto the desk in a useable fashion. I added my sanding sticks into the mix too. Still waiting on my decal setter solution, and panel line ink. Not to mention the Tamiya paste I ordered to clean up seam lines. Lots going on in there this weekend. If I had my way, I would buy a metallic peg board for my office to hang over my model building station, but I need to move some larger purchased sculptures before I could do that. I would also like to build a utensils holding station to get more of my work surface back. Fling all that gear up on a wall, or cubby system, and reclaim the desk for working. Right now I only have 1/3 of the desk for working on, the rest is covered in tools, and consumables. I really, really need to attack all of the drawers and closets in this house. We have so much extra stuff that should be donated, or put into rotation to get used up. I’m terrible myself for saving things until later, or for a suitable occasion, only for the thing to have gone off by the time you feel you should actually use it. I hate that. Money wasted. What a rip-off! Argh!
Not for nothing but we had a homework blitz this weekend to get my eldest ready for their next book talk. Book read, report worked out orally, then dictation typed up fixing any chronological errors, and then six or seven run throughs to practice all the words and get comfortable with the material. I think the kid’s going to be ok. Then after gymnastics we need to practice for tomorrow’s Yellow Belt testing. Fingers crossed! We’ve been doing a fair amount of prep for it, so I think we are in a good place.
No matter. We are back to Domestic Duties Monday. Laundry is underway. I will vacuum at some point today. I have some new projects that came in on Friday evening, and this morning to attend to, so I best be off soon.
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