Hey, what's up?

[m o l l y]

Hi guys, I miss you!
We've been working nonstop for almost a year renovating a weird flat concrete house from 1903. It's very stressful. Apparently, people who watch house-tv know this. No one told me!

We finally moved in about a week ago and there is still a lot to do. We have a working toilet that is not in the basement since yesterday! But we still take showers at friends' houses. There is (shockingly expensive!) scaffolding up outside at the moment and the roofers come on Monday to stop the leaking.Anyone have dehumidifier tips?

Anyway, that's what's up with me!

[alexshred420]

Oh yeah, homeownership is pretty gnarly. Esp in a home that old!

I don't really have any pro tips except that you'll always go 40-50% over budget on stuff.

Do you need an industrial dehumidifier or just a normal one that sits your room?

I hope that they stopped the leaking!

[m o l l y]

Yeah, the budget was demolished. I had NO idea what any things cost. And you are talking to that self same girl who was afraid of messing up her 'fancy' jeans because they came from The GAP. Yowie.

Just a run of the mill dehumidifier for now (fingers crossed). Those roofers are currently hard at work to stop the leaking. One constantly smokes tiny cigars! Worth it.

Tell me, what's up with you folks?

[yourfriendclaire]

Can’t wait to visit your damp palace someday!

We just spent a few months converting our spider-filled garage to a home studio. It’s a highly tasteful joint: lined the walls with cork, put in French doors, a little deck. It’s changed the dynamic of our home life in a big way. We’re still cataloguing and selling and giving away all the extra shit that used to live in the garage—plus making sense of the rooms in the house that were rearranged when the studio was outsourced—but I can see the end now.

[meadows]

I thought that the board was dead, but it turns out I just wasn't logged in! I didn't see the little stars that show fresh comments and I felt so sad.

I'm back at IRL work and it's good and bad. I feel really exhausted by it, but I also don't want to only live on zoom? Feels to me like mostly just the annoying parts of pre-panera life have reasserted themselves. Bah humbug etc.

[infopetal]

after 20 months of working safely from home at a job that was crushing my soul , I am starting a new, partially in-person job next Monday that I hope will crush my soul a little bit less. I am feeling a bit of trepidation about the return to in-person but I'm hopeful it will be better for my brain and heart, I am a shy creature but the isolation of wfh combo'd with living alone in a city with few pals has not been great for me. …onward!! I will be in my first union! I will have a tolerable commute! I will work with people I think are cool!

I am also newly a homeowner but it is a co-op in a big building so I have to deal less with damp basements and spider-filled garages and more the tribulations of living sandwiched between many other humans. but I do have a terrace and am determined to get through this winter so I can enjoy all the bulbs I just planted.

[yourfriendclaire]

I'm going an international trip soon for the first time since February 2020! To Copenhagen for a film festival gig and then to Finland to visit my in-laws who raised stakes and moved to the Nordics during the démi. Totally wigged about it. I get so tired when I leave the house for so much as an afternoon. My butt still hurts from sitting on an uncomfortable bench at a party one full week ago. Can I handle the life I used to take for granted??

[yourfriendclaire]

PS @infopetal belated congrats on your homeownership! In this economy!