When Will It All End?
I’m at that point in the project that I just want it to be over. I only have a few more weeks, but it seems like an eternity. This interminable feeling that this one project evokes acts like a magnifying glass on the entire house. I don’t think I’ll ever finish.
This feeling makes me question why I ever bought this feculent hell-hole in the first place. What was I thinking? Its just too much. How can I be expected to do so much work and ever be finished.
Then I ask myself, what would I have done otherwise. In my pre-Petch House days, it wasn’t like I was achieving world peace or curing AIDS. Who knows, I may have taken up bank robbery to fill my time. I could be in jail right now or on death row. Maybe this house is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
Thank God I bought this house.
8 comments:
Nearly into the 5th month of the bathroom project here - I can certainly relate!
Maybe it's time to schedule one day or evening a week where you are NOT ALLOWED to work on or even think about the house. Maybe take in a movie, go bowling or roller skating, take yourself to the water & just stare at the horizon.
Mick,
Ugh! Bathrooms. May even be worse than a kitchen. More plumbing in a smaller space.
Kathy,
After the cabinets are done it may be more than one day a week I take off. I'm thinking a year long sabbatical. Maybe I'll write a book
Only a few more weeks!
I don't know why I love restoration blogs but I do.
Take a deep breath.
I'm beginning to know that feeling myself. The fugly shingles are nearly all gone from the house, but now I have thousands and thousands and thousands of nail holes to fill. Interminable.....
Christine,
I'm feeling better now. The rest of the tin ceiling didn't arrive, and well....
Jayne,
I remember all too well pulling thousands of nails and filling thousands holes. I feel for you.
I'm going to e-mail a link to this post to my husband along with the comment, "No wonder Greg gets so much done. Maybe you should adapt his positive attitude." :)
Positive attitude or self delusion – It could be either, really.
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