Accomplishment

I'm now setting daily goals for myself. I had 3 goals for after work today. 1, clean my kitchen(it became quite the mess when I repeatedly put my foot through the ceiling from the bathroom), 2) Construct a giant boat out of sheep shit and sticks!(ok, not quite, actually, it was "build a structure to surround my bathtub"), and the third was "walk the kiga when it got cooler out".

I know, walking the kiga isn't really a goal since I do it every day, but considering how OCD I am, tearing myself away from my construction once I get started is extremely difficult.

OK, so women who look at the picture above probably think "how boring, you better clean that up, and hurry up and get finished!", men who look at the above picture probably think something to the effect of "dude, is that your sledge hammer below the window? Its so small!"

First off, I'm comfortable with the size of my sledge hammer, and secondly, its more important to use a sledge hammer correctly, than to have a really big one.

The picture doesn't do it nearly the justice it deserves, but that is my tub surround structure. I need to put some wonderboard up next, and then I can work on putting up the tile.

I'm going to start posting pics of my remodeling. Mostly because I can. Pictures in blogs kicks ass.

Today, I had an interesting epiphany. I realized that as a kid, I mostly wanted to build stuff like tree houses, and forts, and stuff like that. I had neither the know-how, or the financial resources to do it. Today, I have both the know-how, and the financial resources, so basically I'm building a treehouse in my bathroom(you know, in an anecdotle sort of way).

I know that sledge hammers are historically demolition tools, so today the top 4 is reasons to have a sledge hammer handy when you are building stuff.

4) Spiders. Spiders get awefully flat when you hit em with a 13lb sledge. Flatter than they get when you use your foot, or a kleenex. I know, not very daoist of me, but spiders, as well as snakes, and those little millipede nasty things are excluded from my version of daoism.

3) Some times you just have to hit stuff really hard. A normal hammer won't do. You need a REAL hammer to get the job done. Do you really think that all those boards just "magically fit" into place just because I measured them and cut them to exact specifications? Heck NO! I had to pound many of them into place.

2) Aliens. Aliens just might invade at any time. Since I'm anti-gun, and having a sword handy while remodeling doesn't make much sense, a sledge hammer is the next best choice.

1) Obviously, without a 13lb sledge hammer, there would be very few things that could fall on my effin foot from 4-5 feet high. Clearly this is an obvious need when remodeling, and thus it is important to continuously place the sledge hammer in places where it can easily fall, either striking my foot, or coming awefully close causing me to jerk my foot away and slam it into a nearby obsticle that hurts almost as bad as a falling sledge hammer.