I got medieval on its tuchus

[sff_corgi_lj]

Not this kind of medieval () but this kind of 'medieval' ().

And the 'it' is the garage, which is actually less of a real garage than our laundry room-slash-workshop-slash-storage. I've never known it to see a whole actual car inside it, although the previous owners might have done so (lo these many decades ago).

It was the 'storage' part causing the problem. My mother's son had left a good bit of pretending-to-be-a-mechanic junk in there, and some things had been just shoved in due to time constraints rather than being able to arrange them efficiently. There's also boxes of old business papers, old arts projects, infinite numbers of cans of expired paint... and, of course, termite and regular dust. LOTS of dust. The yard men also seem to've blown in every possible grass clipping through any available space, causing them to dust-bunny up as well.

I got some kind of wild impulse going, and attacked this mess this weekend, causing a great amount of emotional trauma to our resident Northern Curly-tailed Lizard. I even swept the puir beastie once by accident!

Boxes got moved onto wheeled InterMetro shelving; Ma spotted me for some extra shelves and another whole unit. After hauling most everything out and sweeping (leaves, lizards, grass clippings and dustdustdust), I stacked things into the half-empty wall-mounted cabinet, I unpacked boxes onto wooden shelving, I hauled a junk tranny out along with lots of dead paint... and eventually got to put stuff onto the Intermetro.

I'm trying to make enough space to get rid of the storage space I'm paying for -- the space with the occasional rats, mind you. Then I've got to try to 'load out' my boxes in two rooms so I can make like a TLC wrecking-and-renovating crew. (That show that rescued people from their mistakes, based down here, doesn't seem to be around anymore. :( At least, I haven't seen it lately and I can't Google it up.)

So now I know what I'm doing for my April 'vacation'. And it'll be getting hot already, too.
Pre-corgi home visit was a bust. The person the breeder had contacted to ensure the house was suitable and all got called into work unexpectedly on Saturday, when we were supposed to meet.

(The frustration may have something to do with why the garage looks half-decent now....)
Scary thing, this. I saw a Scion ad for a sort of fan gathering; one of the Scion customisers looks EXACTLY like Coop from Megas XLR, only in his early 30s-ish.

By the way, does anybody know why those stupid-looking little boxes on wheels are apparently the hottest street fashion since having one's trousers hang halfway off the rump?

Comments

[mafdet.livejournal.com]

Bummer about the home visit cancellation but congratulations on having a clean garage! That's good for your feng shui.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

But it's all angles and corners and stuff! I thought angles and corners and stuff weren't. ^_^