some good things

here are some of the good things about living in an old house.  by old house i mean one that is crappy and due for demolition.  i don’t mean old, beautiful, well cared for, well maintained and full of character.  no, we don’t live in one of those, we live in a poorly built and poorly designed, added-on to waste of space.

what are the good things after that bad rap?  we don’t care if the kids draw on the walls.  we don’t care how many stickers are stuck to every wall and all over the floor.  we don’t worry about blu-tac marks or nail holes.  we don’t mind moving furniture about, hitting things with hammers, pulling out built in bits of furniture or scratching the floor.  it’s all going to go soon.  the sooner the better.  that is another story that i’ll get to soon too (hopefully.)

 we don’t worry about marks on the walls, scuffs on the skirting boards, i don’t even care to climb up and clean out the cobwebs on the kitchen ceiling.  i find it funny that the expanding foam i’ve squirted into gaps to try to stop draughts has puffed out of the gaps in bulging, unattractive ways.  i’ve never cleaned the windows, isn’t that what rain is for?  i’ve never washed the exterior, the gutters have never been cleaned out.  why waste the time on these things when i’m going to take gleeful photos of a big machine knocking the whole bastard thing over in a year or two?

so, yes there are some good points to living in a future demolition site.  i’m not chasing the kids to look after the place and scrubbing up the mess half my life- yippee to that!  i’m happy to kick dropped food under the stove and let it rot there for a year or two, rather than sweep it up.  cleaning with a toddler in the house is nightmarish enough anyways.  yeah, we vacuum, we clean the bathroom, occasionally the floor gets mopped, when it’s really bad i swipe one of tally’s wet wipes over dusty surfaces… it’s not a total dump.  as an added benefit percy and tally’s immune system should be getting robust practice runs at all sorts of bugs.

 the house is also quite small.  two steps and i’m across the hall from our room to the kids, four steps and i’m thru the dining area into the bathroom.  six steps down the hall from kitchen to living room (an enclosed verandah) and three steps from kitchen to computer.  tt’s quick and convenient.  christ, i want a huge house!! i want to get lost and be inconvenienced!