Tammi's World

Limitations

I soooo wish I were handy. You know, able to fix things without really even thinking about it. Not have to make an entire day of "small projects".

But alas...it is not to be. Part of it is ignorance. Part is lack of patience.

The ignorance I blame on my family. You see, to this day they just "assume" I can't do things. It actually started when Daddy was still around. One day he asked me to get him a pliers. I came back with a wrench. I was 9 and had no idea what he was asking for. Yeah, that story spread pretty quick. And I was relegated to the kitchen from then on out.

Now Dee can do anything. Roof a house, build a swing-set, fix a car. And she comes by it honest. Mama was the same way.

I tried to learn, but someone would always butt in and tell me "not to worry" (said in that very patronizing tone)

But over the past years, living away from everyone, I've tried to learn. I really have. But.....it just never works out. And it's because of my lack of patience. I'll get into something and can't get my hands to make whats in my minds eye. Or I'll struggle with something and get just as frustrated as a 5 year old and all but throw a temper tantrum. I'm not proud of that, but it is what it is.

This weekend I tried to get stuff done around Paradise. I wanted to hang my tapestry so I had something on the wall to break up the blankness. And I wanted to get MY curtains up in the dining room.

Well, I got the tapestry up. I need to figure out why that one nail is so bent but....it's up. And it hasn't fallen down yet! So that's something.

But the curtains. Damn....that's my biggest frustration.

See.....I have these beautiful ones that just NEED to be in my dining room. However, the previous owners had kind of a weird set up. They had the traditional pulley curtain rods for the sheers and the pocket rods for the valence. My sheers go on a pocket rod.

I thought I could rig it. Yeah, not so much. MAMA could rig it. Dee could rig it. Me? Yeah, lets just say that was a wasted morning.

The curtains I put on the pocket rod. They are gonna look gorgeous. BUT...and you knew there had to be one....what I thought were tie-backs aren't. And it really needs a decorator rod to make it look right.

So....after a day of ironing and rigging I have to go out and purchase a new pocket rod (one that sits closer to the window) for the sheers and a decorator rod for the curtains. And THEN I have to take the old ones down. AND THEN I have to put the new ones up.

And I have to. Because it looks like some poor white trash idiot lives here now, and I just can't have that.

But ohhh I wish I were better at this stuff.

I did, however, replace a couple of bathroom tiles that fell out of the bathtub surround. Well, sorta. They're up. They haven't come back down....yet. AND I found about 5 more I'm going to need to do something with. But - they're back where they're supposed to be. I'll take that.

On the bright side? I bought a new hammer! It's just a little bitty thing, minimal damage potential. PERFECT for me!

Now, if I just knew how to use the damned thing.

Posted by Tammi at August 6, 2007 06:23 AM | TrackBack