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Decisions made
Oct. 15th, 2007 07:24 amChicagoTARDIS
It kills me to type this, knowing there are people I want to see so badly, but I'm out of ChicagoTARDIS this year. I could just barely squeak the money, but southwest Chi/BWI flights home on Sunday are already booked solid, which means I'd have to drive. 12+ hours. In a single day on Sunday.
Alone.
Just getting back from Media*West alone was an accident waiting to happen, and that's a shorter drive and I had the next day off in case I needed to stop. I don't have the option of taking extra vacation this Thanksgiving. If someone(s) from this area could split the driving it might be possible, but I just can't do it alone... and the only person I know who is going takes an extra day and flies home Monday night.
Next year. I'll be there next year.
There's a shorter hop I can make - the local Deepavali bash. I went a couple years ago with a Bollywood film club, mooched around the market, and had lots of fun. This leads into the next set of decisions:
Homekeeping
I think I'm going to end the maid service. It won't kill me to give my own home a good 4-room sweep-and-dust, and that will free up the money for the two projects that I am going to push ahead.
1) Redecorating my bedroom. It wouldn't take a lot of financial outlay to do what I want to do in there - not when all I really need to do what I want is a couple cans of paint and some saris... and saris were sold cheap in lots at the last Deepavali I went to.
2) Renovating the bathroom. Yes, it was decorating ideas from Italy that pushed me over the edge, but even so, the "I wish I could change"s have reached critical mass, and the fact that the shower stall is still continuing to leak is a serious problem that requires professional remedy. If I'm going to call in the pros, then I'm also going to do something about the weak lighting, the ugly built-in mirrors, the uneven tile, and a dozen other issues. Because so much of the original stuff is built in and built around, it's a cascade... take out the built-in mirror and you have to do something about the entire wall it covered. Take out the built-in sink and counter, and you have to not only replace them, but deal with the tiles that stop short where they were built in. Etc., etc., etc.
It was "good enough" when I moved it, but it isn't anymore.
It kills me to type this, knowing there are people I want to see so badly, but I'm out of ChicagoTARDIS this year. I could just barely squeak the money, but southwest Chi/BWI flights home on Sunday are already booked solid, which means I'd have to drive. 12+ hours. In a single day on Sunday.
Alone.
Just getting back from Media*West alone was an accident waiting to happen, and that's a shorter drive and I had the next day off in case I needed to stop. I don't have the option of taking extra vacation this Thanksgiving. If someone(s) from this area could split the driving it might be possible, but I just can't do it alone... and the only person I know who is going takes an extra day and flies home Monday night.
Next year. I'll be there next year.
There's a shorter hop I can make - the local Deepavali bash. I went a couple years ago with a Bollywood film club, mooched around the market, and had lots of fun. This leads into the next set of decisions:
Homekeeping
I think I'm going to end the maid service. It won't kill me to give my own home a good 4-room sweep-and-dust, and that will free up the money for the two projects that I am going to push ahead.
1) Redecorating my bedroom. It wouldn't take a lot of financial outlay to do what I want to do in there - not when all I really need to do what I want is a couple cans of paint and some saris... and saris were sold cheap in lots at the last Deepavali I went to.
2) Renovating the bathroom. Yes, it was decorating ideas from Italy that pushed me over the edge, but even so, the "I wish I could change"s have reached critical mass, and the fact that the shower stall is still continuing to leak is a serious problem that requires professional remedy. If I'm going to call in the pros, then I'm also going to do something about the weak lighting, the ugly built-in mirrors, the uneven tile, and a dozen other issues. Because so much of the original stuff is built in and built around, it's a cascade... take out the built-in mirror and you have to do something about the entire wall it covered. Take out the built-in sink and counter, and you have to not only replace them, but deal with the tiles that stop short where they were built in. Etc., etc., etc.
It was "good enough" when I moved it, but it isn't anymore.
