52 Card Project 2021: Week 32: Disruption

This past week has been...interesting. So, let's see:

• I had drain tile installed by a company known as Safe Basements. This meant, among other things, that I had to haul 85% of what was still in my basement out to the garage and unhook the washing machine, dryer, and sink. It meant being tied at my heels to stay with the house while contractors worked here. I think I'm pleased with the work the company did--they got the job done faster than even expected. The foreman was not vaccinated, however. Yikes. At least he grudgingly agreed to wear a mask, but it was the least efficient one possible: a gaiter neckfleece pulled up over his mouth. Also, their truck got backed up on my lawn and carved a huge rut in the grass.


• Still fighting a pantry moth infestation. I have thrown out a large amount of food and had to figure out what to eat in fridge or freezer or go out to eat. I don't want to restock the pantry until they're entirely gone. During all this stress, of course this meant that none of my comfort foods were available.


• Convergence! Delia came to town for it. We went grocery shopping for it, planning to keep a cooler in the hotel room, only to discover at the last minute that my old thirty-year-old cooler had a broken spigot and so couldn't be used (water would have leaked out of the bottom). Couldn't find a replacement cooler for a reasonable price in a half hour so *winces in environmental pain* bought styrofoam coolers. Advantage: now that I'm done with Convergence, these coolers can stock the few pantry supplies I have purchased until the pests are gone completely


• Also Delia--she's passed her driver's license test, yay! And bought a new (used) Prius hybrid. And the day she was due to drive back to Eau Claire, the battery conked out in her two week old car--and batteries are EXPENSIVE in hybrids. The previous owner hid this fact from her. So that was stressful.


• sleep disruption continues. Yesterday, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep. This morning it was 3:30 a.m. Of course, this means that I'm nodding off at 6:00 pm.


• Now that the drain tile has been successfully installed, I have to haul everything (or a lot of things) back INTO the basement. And start hauling everything off the front porch because the house exterior is getting repainted in the next couple of weeks.


• I'm dropping a truly obscene amount of money on home improvements this month

The background of this card is a cloud of flour (a reference to the pantry moths) overlaid over a star field (a reference to Convergence). Over that are the three coolers, overlaid with 1) moth traps 2) the logo for the company installing the drain tile and 3) the Convergence logo.

(Wow. I just looked at the titles of the last few cards. I just wanted to note in passing, despite the fact that the last six titles are Loneliness / Imbalance / Futility / Bereavement / Scourge [and] / Disruption, I'm not having nearly as bad a summer as those titles suggest.)

Disruption



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