photos: slice of life

[dragonlady7]

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I admit I used to post more of this kind of shit before Discord. I love how Discord is where friends are and I can just talk about things all the time. but I know, for twenty years now, I’ve always had an online journal and it’s been useful primarily for me to look back at my life and what’s going on, and sometimes I realize Discord’s not gonna do that for me, i can search the archives of conversations as long as I’m still in that server but it’s not the same thing.

anyway here are two random photos I took this morning, archived here as a little slice of life.

one:

[img: two rubbermaid containers on a countertop in a store, with display racks visible beyond in the distance]

This is a huge order i have spent most of the last two weeks working on; the pink rubbermaid on top contains 11 VHS tapes, and the blue one underneath had about 25 3″ Super-8 reels.

This family now has all their memories digitized.

Now I’m working on another order, 19 VHS tapes, and I am doing my best but it won’t be done before I leave for the farm so I’ll have to come back to it.

and 2:

[image: looking down at my own lap. A pair of legs in nearly-knee-high socks striped horizontally with blue, purple, and pink stripes like a bi pride flag, ending in feet wearing brown ankle boots; bare knees above, pink and untanned and slightly hairy, and the hem of a blue skirt, sprawled out over a grimy industrial carpet under a vintage metal desk.]

it is Spring, officially, and yesterday I wore the leggings I’ve been wearing all winter and sweated my ass off. I think the climate control in this building is broken, the heat didn’t work for most of April and now it’s airless and stuffy and I don’t think the A/C works either. Cool.

Anyway not feeling super positive about my fashion choices but as usual i dressed in the dark from whatever was in the room I can access, so. I should dig out literally any other pair of shoes but it was this or the rose gold metallic Birkenstocks and I wasn’t feeling rose gold. God what would it even be like to have like. Fashion sense and a wardrobe instead of a collection of things that came in my size so I bought them. Ha!

This afternoon I have a meeting with a kitchen remodel company to talk about redoing our kitchen. I am desperately trying to exercise an opinion about this, as I should care deeply, but am so burned-out that the very idea of making a decision is very nearly giving me hives. But my god we could have a dishwasher. I just need to hang on to this idea. God she asked us for “inspo pics” and I actually read an article on kitchen remodels of 2022 by Southern Living magazine and was so viscerally repulsed by every single contradictory tip they mentioned that I can’t bring myself to do any further research for this.

Here’s what I got:

1) standard size appliances. nothing custom. nothing custom whatsoever. anything that breaks, i want to be able to rip it out and put something else in there, because it’s a size everything comes in.

2) nothing built-in. sink gets fucked-up or stained? comes out of a standard-sized hole and I put a new one in. bada-boom. fuck built-ins.

3) pot rack or something, I have my cast iron stacked on a fucking shelf and it’s the fucking pits, I will not do that, give me a fucking hook to hang it on this is garbage.

4) fuck minimalism I just want somewhere to put my shit and fuck your ADHD advice I deserve to own things if i want them, I have a collection of kitchen items I actually use and I will not be discarding any of those things nor will I be hiding them for aesthetic reasons, but equally I do want to have counter space I can actually use to work upon, so I need places for my shit to go

5) fuck maximalism i do not care that chintz is briefly in fashion again, I want solid bright colors and ok shit can coordinate but I’m not buying all new shit just so it’s matchy and by God I do not have room for purely decorative pieces of furniture (this was the part of the Southern Living article where I lost my mind, they legit recommended putting in antique furniture for purely decorative purposes and i was like but actually why)

6) nothing is gonna be white or gray unless that’s literally the only color it comes in

7) cabinet hardware needs to either be radially symmetrical or fastened in two places, ask me how i thought of that one

8) can I have cabinets not made of plastic? do they make those? or will they cost more than my house is currently worth in which case maybe i will have to make my peace with plastic…

9) fuck stone countertops I have never seen one I did not hate, I want something that water and heat won’t damage but also one that won’t fucking obliterate me if I bump into it, do they still make those?

10) i guess i did have a lot of opinions. idk. someone please help me replace the falling-apart not very big picture window in the east wall of my kitchen with something nicer. please be gentle with me about the price. it will be a lot. i am cautiously aware of this but probably will cry anyway. (Your picture was not posted)

Comments

[harpers_child]

My best advice is to think about how you use your kitchen and what kinds of things would make that easier. For example Smallest Sister does a lot of making cookies and things like that so put in a special skinny cabinet for baking sheets and cookie racks to live in.