Things are Messy
A couple of weeks ago I bought a new fan light because my snookey said the one in the computer room wasn’t working any more. And believe me, since we can’t put an air conditioner in there, the very least we can do is have a fan in there cuz it’s wickedly hot in the summer.
He has since been trying to install the new one but at the same time he broke the table I used to make jewellery on (a great cherrywood table from a dining room set my cousin gave me) by standing on it trying to install the fan. I told him I didn’t think it would hold over 200 pounds, but he thought it would, for a while he thought that until it crashed out from underneath him.
Because of that, he then had to replace my table but we certainly couldn’t find one of the same quality (not singly, only if we wanted to buy a $3000 dining room set) or the same size. So instead, he bought me a new desk… one of those u-shaped ones which would serve the same purpose – and my desk was in rough shape after 13 years.
So we started putting all the pieces of the desk together, but then when I asked him to turn over a piece, he grabbed it the wrong way and cracked off a piece – a piece with these custom screw things in it that broke and are not easy to get out. He also cracked off a piece of the veneer (was I feeling angry?) but luckily it was the part for inside the drawer.
Then I had to call the furniture manufacturer and get them to send us some of those replacement specialty screws (yes, we searched at Home Depot and Canadian Tire to no avail). We had a hard time getting those things out to put some other ones in, but of course we were then short two. We finally got those yesterday.
So the bottom line is that the fan light is still not finished and it’s hard to do because there is a u-shaped desk in the way. The desk is not finished, but only the hutch part that sits on top – the rest is done (and in the way). If the fan light had been done first, it would have been great… two of us could have been working on that at the same time. It’s not easy to put up blades on an angle with only daylight.
This hutch is going to be a pain in the ass because this furniture is very, very heavy and we’re going to have to lift it onto two of those specialty screws (which work like dowels), and the rest of the desk is kinda in the way.
I don’t know how long it’s going to take to finish everything. Needless to say that my snookey is very tired from staying up til 2:00 last night and going to pick up his son at 8:00 this morning.
In other news my daughter has been staying with us for a few days now since there was some abuse going on by her father – drunken asshole. I was actually on the phone with her when she asked if she could come over. I could hear him in the background threatening to ‘punch her fucking face in’ – this because she hadn’t cleaned her room.
So we’ve got a full house over here (and no extra bedroom since I converted the third one into my jewellery studio). The living room is not looking too neat with clothes strewn around it. And how come my daughter wasn’t born stronger… strong enough to lift a big hutch onto a desk?
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
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