random thoughts – Day 2,294 (Friday) – domesticity

Guest room window film.

Today’s domestic effort to chip away at the house list was covering the guest bathroom window with privacy film. This allows elimination of a sheer curtain and the temperamental old-timey roller window shade that goes down but not back up. The film for this window has an alligator-type texture and when the sun shines through it, it throws holographic prisms. I like it better than the film installed in the main bathroom window. The main bathroom might very well be changed to the fun one. 

Later, two cans of spray paint were bought for the next stage of the oil tank enclosure painting project. Tonight's visit to the hardware store was free of clerks attempting to be helpful and it was great. I even wandered the store and saw some nice interior lighting fixtures and outdoor flower pots but no garden decor, which have been a quest item since 2016 when I couldn't find any for the Lowell house. 

The in-between time of the two activities was spent reading and roasting veggies for lunch. There was a rare itch to socialize, and a debate took place about reaching out to see if anyone wanted to do something tonight. Thanks to the inability to have any ideas to suggest for a proposed social activity because it is basically a foreign activity for me, the desire to socialize evaporated before any texts were made that might have committed me to do so. It’s hard when checking availability with people and their willingness to leave their own homes is based on the idea at hand and there is no idea, because why make a plan if there nobody to do it with. A real chicken and egg situation. 

Once I hit the point where the idea of socializing felt like too much work, it then felt a little bit like I had dodged a bullet. Whew! The night was spent re-watching a series I already watched, and then marveling over the fireflies. The first one was at the living room window, and there were a couple spotted in the back yard. So cool.