five Friday things, but not "Friday Five" because I don't really do that

[mrissa]

1. I can't figure out whether I was supposed to clip this comic for Mom or whether Mom was supposed to clip it for Grandma.

2. We have a bathroom in the basement! There's one tiny fixture thing to be handled so it's just the way we want it--and, of course, cabinet drawers lined and pictures hung and all that--but hurrah for the new bathroom! We're talking to the same contractor about the rest of the basement work; we'll see whether that's the way we go with it. But it's really satisfying to have a pretty blue bathroom down there. I may be making people troop down to see it when they're at my house for quite some time now.

3. It is also really satisfying to be able to go about my morning routine with less expectation of a parade of contractors through my house. They are very good contractors, very considerate and polite and competent and punctual and all the things one would want of contractors. But they are still Not My People and they have been in My House, and it's nice to have a break from that.

4. The oaks in the backyard seem to have heard that we're nearing the end of our yard waste collection service for the year: the leaves are all falling today. Just boom, we're done hanging onto the tree now, buhbye. markgritter will have such a lovely surprise waiting for him when he gets home. If yard work can ever by its existence be truly surprising. But I honestly thought it was raining, and no, it was just the large number of leaves and twigs falling that made that noise.

5. I am filled with extremely good, general, unsolicited advice that nobody particularly wants to hear, and that people will misread as directed at them, unless it is directed at them, in which case they will misread it as directed at other people. It is not just one piece of good advice. I've got lots of 'em. So if you're feeling in need of advice, I guess today's the day to ask it of me. Otherwise I am mindfully practicing butting out. Mindful out-butting is a neglected spiritual practice these days, I feel. (Note: this should not be construed as advice that you should or should not butt out. Some of you can quite usefully butt in from time to time, and more power to your butting.)

Comments

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

Advice please! :) And yay for a second bathroom. That's awesome.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Um, actually it's a fourth bathroom. There is a 3/4 bath attached to markgritter's and my room, a full bath on the other side of the upstairs, and a half bath on the main floor. And now a 3/4 bath in the basement.

But still yay.

We're not putting this in because we are currently underbathroomed. It's part of my longer evil plan. We will finish the rest of the basement and timprov will move down there, so having the bathroom as part of that bedroom space will increase his comfort, markgritter's and mine when we're down there using the new living space, and not completely incidentally the resale value of the house. timprov's current room will become guest space until/unless we get me to a point where we can try to have a kid, so I'm thinking we will probably at some point get a good wooden dresser and a glider rocker, things that are not out of place in a nice guest room but also fit well in a non-froofy nursery.

Also, it's a long season, and you've gotta trust it. That's my general advice for you today.