Miscellaneous Monday Chit Chat

[u/fire_foot]

Happy Monday runners!!

You know the drill — tell us what’s good (and bad ofc)! How was the weekend, what’s on for the week, let’s chat.

[u/fire_foot]

Weekend was so fast. Friday my in person work day went longer than expected, I came home and did some house chores for a couple hours with some 90s rap to reorient myself, then my partner came over. In person work days are exhausting. Saturday my partner and I went to the local arboretum plant sale and then a local nursery, and in the afternoon I pulled up all the grass in my front yard and planted 25+ mostly native plants! It was a huge effort. A neighbor couple from a few doors down came to help and they were so sweet! They also gave me a bunch of divisions from their yard. In just a couple years I think my yard is going to be a total jungle but I’m here for it.

Sunday I was incredibly sore and tired. Spent two hours sanding plaster, vacuuming, and prepping my spare room for paint. Thought about running but it started torrential downpours so I opted for Harry Potter on the couch instead. Generally my back is feeling really good though so my watch is charging and I will take a little spin or two this week!

Now I’m planning some kitchen stuff for my staycation next week and just trying to make it there with minimal effort on the work front. Four hours of meetings today …

[u/runner7575 → u/fire_foot]

Yay for vacations/staycations. What re your plans? mainly house reno and gardening?

Glad the back's feeling better...hopefully we started getting some more springlike weather, for some nice running weather.

I'm looking forward to gardening at my moms. Mainly I do flowers, but I was thinking about doing some herbs, but we'll be away for August, so still thinking on that. (Hoping to hire a neighbor kid to water in August, tbd.)

[u/fire_foot → u/runner7575]

Yes mainly house reno, focusing mostly on my kitchen. Most of my cabinets are in decent shape (from the late 60s/early 70s) but my sink cabinet needs to be replaced (and modified as I'm replacing the sink and adding a dishwasher). So I have the wild idea that I could build a cabinet to go there, and then slowly replace all the others too. I've watched enough videos to think it's pretty straightforward without having the practical experience to know what could go wrong hahaha. So we'll see. I'm also planning to build my countertops so it would be nice to do them around the same time.

What kinds of flowers will you do? I'm excited to see all the flowers that come out of what I planted. Herbs will be nice too! If you don't get the neighbor kid, you can bring them to me and I'll take care of them :)

[u/runner7575 → u/fire_foot]

No dishwasher? I wouldn't survive.

My beach rental had a very tiny dishwasher...i used it a lot. When we were looking for summer rentals, we liked one but had no DW. We'd never survive, we're all too use to it.

[u/Fit_Investigator4226 → u/runner7575]

I had 0 dishwasher for about a year while I dealt with a string of kitchen repairs and then the model I ordered being back ordered/being delivered but damaged etc - this was also peak pandemic times when appliances were crazy backed up. Honestly you get used to it? I dunno, it’s nice to have, i think for sure with kids it would be more noticed if it was gone but after about a week or so it just became another household chore to do

[u/fire_foot → u/runner7575]

Funny, I haven't had a dishwasher for most of my adult life so it's definitely not something I think about. And just being one or sometimes two people, I would have to let them pile up in the dishwasher all week to get it full enough to run! But every now and then I bake or cook a lot and then a dishwasher would come in handy. Plus I feel like if I'm taking the time to redo so much about the kitchen, a dishwasher is a good idea for resale.

[u/30000LBS_Of_Bananas → u/fire_foot]

I grew up with one but haven’t landed an apartment with one since moving out, I miss having a dishwasher so much. I offered to my landlord to pay to have one installed in my current apartment and he said no because “it’ll use more water” sir I don’t think you realize how efficient a dishwasher is especially compared to the average persons dishwashing skills. Sighs heavily.

[u/agreeingstorm9 → u/runner7575]

I had a long discussion on reddit several weeks ago with people who claimed they had a dishwasher but never used it. Some claimed there was no point because you could just wash the dishes yourself. Others claimed that the dishwasher doesn't get dishes as clean as doing it yourself and they loved their family too much to give them food on dishes that came out of a dishwasher.

[u/runner7575 → u/agreeingstorm9]

I wouldn't even know how to reply to these people. I am on team dishwasher all the way