Disadvent 4
Dec. 5th, 2024 07:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraI think I concluded last year that the holiday-baking-mailing-to-relatives did count; certainly the part of it where I get to get out the stashes of small and medium takeout containers I build up all year and finally use them. Anyways that was the big project Tues and yesterday. (I don't do the actual baking, that's Jb and the kids, but I do the pan-to-post-office part.)
Similarly, my ability to focus time/energy on disadventure is being somewhat sapped by two overlapping/competing projects, the cleaning of the house of routine clutter, which has become urgent, and the desire to keep making progress on packing and moving the entire contents of our basement to a storage unit as a first step in maybe finally getting someone in to do something about the water problem. (It's been so dry we haven't actually had a leak in many months but that will change whenever we finally get heavy rain/snow again.) There's a certain amount of stuff in the basement that *could* perhaps be disadvented but it's hard to figure out how much time to sink into that vs just mindlessly packing and moving stuff. Also my house is very full of cardboard boxes I've been saving up for exactly this, and successfully deploying them for packing would clear out way more space in living areas than pretty much any other disadventing possibly could. (What's in the basement is basically "everything we owned before the fire that couldn't be cleaned" - books, games, art and decorative stuff, nostalgia and papers, CDs and DVDs. And, like, the books have been through a couple of culling passes - we got rid of a lot right after the fire, and the first big basement flood took out a bunch more - but maybe there's also, like, decorative stuff we're never going to display again, that we don't need to keep forever in a box? Or maybe we could do yet another pass on the books as our sense of what we still care about evolves?)
Similarly, my ability to focus time/energy on disadventure is being somewhat sapped by two overlapping/competing projects, the cleaning of the house of routine clutter, which has become urgent, and the desire to keep making progress on packing and moving the entire contents of our basement to a storage unit as a first step in maybe finally getting someone in to do something about the water problem. (It's been so dry we haven't actually had a leak in many months but that will change whenever we finally get heavy rain/snow again.) There's a certain amount of stuff in the basement that *could* perhaps be disadvented but it's hard to figure out how much time to sink into that vs just mindlessly packing and moving stuff. Also my house is very full of cardboard boxes I've been saving up for exactly this, and successfully deploying them for packing would clear out way more space in living areas than pretty much any other disadventing possibly could. (What's in the basement is basically "everything we owned before the fire that couldn't be cleaned" - books, games, art and decorative stuff, nostalgia and papers, CDs and DVDs. And, like, the books have been through a couple of culling passes - we got rid of a lot right after the fire, and the first big basement flood took out a bunch more - but maybe there's also, like, decorative stuff we're never going to display again, that we don't need to keep forever in a box? Or maybe we could do yet another pass on the books as our sense of what we still care about evolves?)
