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Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukemore thoughts occurred since I was very tired this morning
thank you for all the comments you left on posts in the past month, I was too tired to respond to most but I appreciated them!
I found out last night that my parents have come up with a more convoluted scheme for the move but seems more likely to get them out of the farm house sooner? they have a second farm down in town that has a house attached, they got the farm for the land directly from the previous owners and the house was unavoidably attached and honestly the only thing of value. The farmland is very nice though. the barn could burn down and we wouldn't be sad. I climbed into the upstairs the other week and wasn't actually sure I climbed up the way I was supposed to, but hey any hole in the ceiling will do. The people who have rented the house from them for six? seven? years moved out. The insurance company doesn't like that it's unoccupied and they have a person who is known through someone else that wants to rent it but due to potential surgery things, might not be able to move in for several months. My parents would rather have someone move in that they like and think would be a good renter for years than hit and miss shorter term people who might not be good tenants. Okay sure.
so the plan as explained to me yesterday: my parents move into the rental, taking only essential things down there, everything else going in the basement at the fun house (their "new" house), to free up room here in the farm house for me and potential December guests. Then they can work on the fun house while not breathing in wood finishing and paint fumes and it takes the pressure off them. Or something. The main problem being that their nice hardwood floors take a while to lay, sand, seal, finish with like a week curing time or something.
I dunno. this sounds like my dad's offer to move my loom into the fun house so I could use it where it's warm. unnecessary, a lot more work but nice to offer. I wish they would just crank out the fun house, but they do also have to run the wood burner at the rental to heat it and that would be easier to do with them living there. all in all, this is getting absurd. why are they like this. I had no idea them being picky about vinyl plank flooring would lead to something that is a full year of nonsense before they move in. see also: the upstairs bathroom here in the farm house only having a shower and nothing else done. I'm going to start tackling that soon I think.
but also they are being almost as picky with the flooring they plan to replace in the rental which is a house they won't even really live in! my mom was appalled that I just ordered the LVP for the NY house without getting samples or checking that I liked the pattern or whatever. like, I don't know how to tell her that her standards are too high. Because this is a reoccurring problem of: high standards -> agonizing over decisions -> delaying the work while more research occurs -> delay work because it isn't perfect -> project never gets done
there's a hole in the downstairs bathroom ceiling! the upstairs bathroom is bare drywall! and plywood! the basement stairs only has a support on one side and so sags alarmingly when you walk down it! (on my list to fix literally this week) perfect is the enemy of done! I don't understand this! they don't even half ass it, they 100% or 0%! I would take 80% of perfect because that's pretty good!
like this is a good problem to have: owning multiple properties, a thing I will only accomplish due to their achievements, but execution of tasks to make things happen is just like pulling teeth. anyway, I think I'm hungry, gonna run to the grocery store and buy snacks or something.
thank you for all the comments you left on posts in the past month, I was too tired to respond to most but I appreciated them!
I found out last night that my parents have come up with a more convoluted scheme for the move but seems more likely to get them out of the farm house sooner? they have a second farm down in town that has a house attached, they got the farm for the land directly from the previous owners and the house was unavoidably attached and honestly the only thing of value. The farmland is very nice though. the barn could burn down and we wouldn't be sad. I climbed into the upstairs the other week and wasn't actually sure I climbed up the way I was supposed to, but hey any hole in the ceiling will do. The people who have rented the house from them for six? seven? years moved out. The insurance company doesn't like that it's unoccupied and they have a person who is known through someone else that wants to rent it but due to potential surgery things, might not be able to move in for several months. My parents would rather have someone move in that they like and think would be a good renter for years than hit and miss shorter term people who might not be good tenants. Okay sure.
so the plan as explained to me yesterday: my parents move into the rental, taking only essential things down there, everything else going in the basement at the fun house (their "new" house), to free up room here in the farm house for me and potential December guests. Then they can work on the fun house while not breathing in wood finishing and paint fumes and it takes the pressure off them. Or something. The main problem being that their nice hardwood floors take a while to lay, sand, seal, finish with like a week curing time or something.
I dunno. this sounds like my dad's offer to move my loom into the fun house so I could use it where it's warm. unnecessary, a lot more work but nice to offer. I wish they would just crank out the fun house, but they do also have to run the wood burner at the rental to heat it and that would be easier to do with them living there. all in all, this is getting absurd. why are they like this. I had no idea them being picky about vinyl plank flooring would lead to something that is a full year of nonsense before they move in. see also: the upstairs bathroom here in the farm house only having a shower and nothing else done. I'm going to start tackling that soon I think.
but also they are being almost as picky with the flooring they plan to replace in the rental which is a house they won't even really live in! my mom was appalled that I just ordered the LVP for the NY house without getting samples or checking that I liked the pattern or whatever. like, I don't know how to tell her that her standards are too high. Because this is a reoccurring problem of: high standards -> agonizing over decisions -> delaying the work while more research occurs -> delay work because it isn't perfect -> project never gets done
there's a hole in the downstairs bathroom ceiling! the upstairs bathroom is bare drywall! and plywood! the basement stairs only has a support on one side and so sags alarmingly when you walk down it! (on my list to fix literally this week) perfect is the enemy of done! I don't understand this! they don't even half ass it, they 100% or 0%! I would take 80% of perfect because that's pretty good!
like this is a good problem to have: owning multiple properties, a thing I will only accomplish due to their achievements, but execution of tasks to make things happen is just like pulling teeth. anyway, I think I'm hungry, gonna run to the grocery store and buy snacks or something.
