I am currently blogging from bed.\u00a0 Using my Nexus, and the Keyboard of Crampedness.\u00a0 And my hands hurt a lot.<\/p>\n
But, I’m feeling pretty good about myself.
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\nToday started yesterday.\u00a0 After not getting to sleep when I wanted to, because of that awful ‘I’m queasy and that makes me anxious which makes me queasy’ thing, I ended up not falling asleep until after the sun was up.\u00a0 At some point, I remember getting up to answer the door. <\/p>\n
That was good and bad.\u00a0 Good, because it was a two-day-late package.\u00a0\u00a0 Bad because the other thing I was expecting from the same shipping company was not with it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Extra bad, because that other package included a tool that I really needed for the other thing I was expecting.<\/p>\n
I’ll save all that for another post, though.<\/p>\n
Today was about ‘things I can actually complete’.\u00a0 Today was about fixing the waterbed.<\/p>\n
I had a new mattress, a pad, and a new liner coming.\u00a0 And I had to properly attach and reinforce the foot of the bed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Step 1: Drain.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
I don’t actually know how you’re supposed to do this — the whole hose-and-gravity-and-something-magical-water-does thing doesn’t make sense to me, and I think it takes forever, so I have a pump that drains it for me.\u00a0 That means it goes fairly quickly, and I don’t need any help.<\/p>\n
Step 2: Reattach and reinforce foot.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
When my parents were out here in 2010, my dad helped me pick out some parts to do that, which were all nicely stored in a little container, waiting for that magical day when I was feeling capable of actually doing something.\u00a0 That day was today.\u00a0 I drilled holes, and screwed in screws, and managed the foot of a California King waterbed all by myself.<\/p>\n
I did this by cleverly using boxes and clothes to hold things in place.<\/p>\n
Step 3: Put in the new liner.<\/p>\n
But wait, first there’s the moment of paranoia about the new brackets maybe having hidden sharp points.\u00a0 So I put bits of cardboard over them.\u00a0 Then, because I didn’t want the liner to shift, I used velcro to hold it in place.<\/p>\n
Step 4: Fill the new mattress.\u00a0 Properly this time.<\/p>\n
I did very well at this.\u00a0 I can tell because I’m super comfortable right now.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
About halfway through all that, a friend of ours [Jessica] showed up.\u00a0 Because we’d planned on a little ‘unfucking’ of my habitat, and I might need help with the bed.<\/p>\n
I did not.\u00a0 I did it all by myself.\u00a0 Little, useless me.<\/p>\n
We ended up watching Sherlock while the bed filled.<\/p>\n
Then, we took a trip to WalMart, where I got some cleaning supplies, and a couple of other things I needed [non-broken hamper, a larger trash can], and then came back here to do a little ‘unfucking’.<\/p>\n
While I scrubbed out the bath tub, Jessica worked some sort of dark fucking magic on the kitchen.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
And now, I’m blogging from bed.\u00a0 Because I’m pleased with myself, and tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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