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Home Improvement
Sawdust, half-finished walls, and the slow work of making a house feel like mine — projects, mistakes, and the small wins in between.
September 20, 2026
I Finally Planted My Herb Garden!🌿
It Started With a Patch of Dirt There was a small flower bed along the back of the house. Technically. In practice, it was mostly weeds, grass, questionable little beetles, one sprinkler head I discovered only after I started digging around in there, and the vague suggestion that perhaps somebody had once intended for plants […]
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September 14, 2026
From Holes to Holy Shit, We Have a Fence
The Backyard Had Some Issues Buying this house has been a steady progression from holy shit, we own this to okay, now what the fuck do we want to do with it? The backyard has been high on that list from day one. It's a good-sized yard. There's room for gardens, a wooden catio, eventually […]
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September 4, 2026
I Put a Movie Theater Over My Bathtub Because Apparently This Is Who I Am Now
Sometimes home improvement means flooring. Sometimes it means paint, shelving, landscaping, or spending three weekends wondering why the previous homeowner put that there. And sometimes it means buying a tiny soccer-ball-shaped projector and turning the window shade over your bathtub into a movie screen. Guess which kind of homeowner I am. I picked up this […]
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August 31, 2026
Home Improvement: The Previous Owner Left Me Cat Furniture. He Just Didn't Know It.
One of the interesting things about buying somebody else's house is discovering all the random shit they decided not to take with them. Some of it makes you wonder, Why? Why would you leave this here? What am I supposed to do with this? Other things make me want to track down the previous owner, […]
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August 23, 2026
My First Home Improvement Project
There are certain things I’m still getting used to about owning a house. One of them is the strange and wonderful realization that when I look at something and think, I want to change that, I can just… change the fucking thing. No landlord. No permission. No worrying about whether I’ll get my security deposit […]
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