Heh heh. Yeah, I was just bragging about your speed over dinner. SO: "Nuh-uh. She's had those chapters in the can and she's just editing them as she goes along." Me: "Is not! *quotes comments, gives proof*" SO: "Wow. I bet each chapter is like getting an expensive present." Me: "Yeah. Kinda makes me afraid to comment, y'know? I don't wanna throw her off her groove."
Embarrassingly, I stayed up late last night just to see if you'd do another chapter. AND YOU DID.
Hah. Well, not to keep you up on a school night, but I'm gonna see if I can do another one before bed again tonight.
(I'll admit part of the reason for productivity, sadly, is that without the iMac, I can't play fansubs that I've been following because the release formats require more speed/mem than my little laptop has... so suddenly I find myself with a bit more free time than I had. *cough* on the other hand, when I get the iMac back from hospital, I'll probably disappear for at least a day to catch up... )
We found a newspaper in the wall from 1951. Probably when the kitchen was last remodeled. Ug. So we are demolishing. Plaster powder floats in the air everywhere. Moved all the cooking today into our travel trailer where she was cook for a couple of months probably.
No, that's totally awesome to find the newspaper! Someone must've had a sense of humor when building -- the other thing you can find in some older houses is workmen signing the inside of drywall or boards before they're put up. I love that stuff (and yes, there are bits of local newspapers in our walls now, too).
The plaster powder is going to get everywhere and if you don't put up plastic sheet to keep it in, it will be neverending. (As said by someone who's only hung one protective plastic sheet and that was when working on the pantry wall and the kitchen would've otherwise been open to the garage and all the bugs.)
Travel trailer, see, now that's thinking ahead. Better than washing dishes in the bathtub, certainly...
You can have it if you promise to come do the baseboards for my dining room, prime the new wall, rout the plywood for the vertical columns, stain seal and poly the beams, do the drywall for the living room, finish off and seal the concrete countertops, install and front the drawers in the cabinet, rout for the drawer runners and install the drawers in the oven cabinet, put up the surround on the shelves in the kitchen, build the island bartop... should I keep going, or is that enough?
Heh, color me not, really -- it's just the hyperfocus of ADD, and not really a sign of any kind of discipline. I mean, if you were to say, "but what's your average words per day over, say, the past 365 days?" I would have to say, "uh, about THREE."
This will come, and I'll finish the story, and then it'll pass. The trick is trying to time it so I run through the hyperfocus with enough time to finish a story, but not so much time I've neglected the rest of daily-life/house/etc such that the SO is ready to check into a hotel and the dogs are camping out in the backyard. Or something. *snerk*
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 02:36 am (UTC)Embarrassingly, I stayed up late last night just to see if you'd do another chapter. AND YOU DID.
Hell yes, I noticed your output.
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 02:46 am (UTC)(I'll admit part of the reason for productivity, sadly, is that without the iMac, I can't play fansubs that I've been following because the release formats require more speed/mem than my little laptop has... so suddenly I find myself with a bit more free time than I had. *cough* on the other hand, when I get the iMac back from hospital, I'll probably disappear for at least a day to catch up... )
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 22 Sep 2008 03:05 am (UTC)(but I did finish the dining room floor, and got the display case into the new wall, and have been drywalling... but, yeah, about the kitchen...)
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 22 Sep 2008 04:10 pm (UTC)The plaster powder is going to get everywhere and if you don't put up plastic sheet to keep it in, it will be neverending. (As said by someone who's only hung one protective plastic sheet and that was when working on the pantry wall and the kitchen would've otherwise been open to the garage and all the bugs.)
Travel trailer, see, now that's thinking ahead. Better than washing dishes in the bathtub, certainly...
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 03:26 am (UTC)*steals your speed and runs off*
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 04:13 pm (UTC);-)
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Date: 22 Sep 2008 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22 Sep 2008 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22 Sep 2008 04:15 pm (UTC)This will come, and I'll finish the story, and then it'll pass. The trick is trying to time it so I run through the hyperfocus with enough time to finish a story, but not so much time I've neglected the rest of daily-life/house/etc such that the SO is ready to check into a hotel and the dogs are camping out in the backyard. Or something. *snerk*