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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-05-21 12:25 pm
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Hard Things

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?

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Re: Thoughts

[personal profile] crunchysteve 2025-05-22 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Totally get the wall space thing. We had huge, aging, gas heating for house and water, so we got a bit of space back, but it was touch and go there for a while. We're also lucky that the utility wall is behind the house, barely even visible from the neighbours' upstairs side windows. Also understand keeping the coal burner, seeing as you don';t need it often. Linda fancies herself a master chef and I was going to be prizing a gas cooktop from her cold, dead hand, lol. (And we have our gas bbq and tiny wood fired pizza oven, too. The latter will be prized from my cold, dead hand! Thinking about baking the daily bread in it, in fact.)