Omg this day

[breathedout]

Tfw you're like "it's okay that I'm still sick and I have to go back to work, it'll be an easy day just catching up on the mathy part of my job" and then you spend the entire workday delicately and diplomatically apologizing for not having caught someone else's mistake a month ago, while frantically racing against the clock to fix the problem said mistake caused; and then, after eight hours of that, having sucessfully squeaked under the wire with the fix, you figure you'll decompress by just folding a load of laundry and putting it away, that's an easy task that will make you feel competent, and so you sort your laundry into stacks and take the first stack, which is actually just a single dress, to the part of the closet with the dresses, and you're looking for a hanger to hang the dress on but there are no free hangers in the dress section, but it looks like there's an empty hanger on the other side of the hangy closet thing, so you reach around to try to pull it out but it's tangled on the hanger next to it, and that hanger bumps the hanger holding the hangy closet thing, and the hangy closet thing falls down and breaks the hangers on either side of it, and actually neither of those other two hangers were empty after all but only held camisoles which had half-slipped off of them, so you're standing there with a dress in one hand, trying to get the camisoles back onto their broken hangers with the other, and then you lift the hangy closet thing back up onto the hanger that was holding it and you actually manoeuvre it back onto the place where it was hanging but then right when you let go the little fabric carrier on the upper corner of it rips off and it falls to the floor AGAIN, except this time it does so first-one-side-then-the-other so that everything inside it also falls out, and then you're like "it's okay, I'm a seamstress, I have sewing shit I can use to fix it" but then you realize your sewing basket is in the half of the closet that you can't open because the door is blocked by the pile of clothes recently fallen on the floor on this side of the closet, and then you're like "IT'S OKAY, I'M A KNITTER, I HAVE KNITTING SHIT I CAN FIX IT WITH" and then there you are, kneeling in your closet on a pile of all your pajamas and workout gear and broken hangers and also some dresses that are like, what the fuck is that thing, why do you even own that, shoving $50/skein merino-silk yarn through the top of a $26 cotton hangy closet thing with a blunt tapestry needle, over all of which you're leaking snot because you're still, in fact, sick.

BUT YOU FUCKIN TRIUMPH IN THE END.

Comments

[justgot1]

That was quite a ride. 😂

[breathedout]

LOL yes FOR ME TOO

[sylvaine]

Oh boy /o\

[breathedout]

SOME DAYS, you know?!

[copracat]

Because people who do shit with yarn can do any bloody thing.

[breathedout]

Believe it!

[sarahthecoat]

YIKES

[breathedout]

SOME DAYS!!

[shadaras]

oh wow, that's quite a day

I hope today is kinder to you

[breathedout]

Thank you! So far, so good. *knocks on wood*

[starshipfox]

THIS WAS SUCH AN INTENSE READ. What a day.

[breathedout]

LOL yes. It was. More of a day than I really wanted. Luckily today has so far been much lower-key.

[virtual_particle]

....Yikes is definitely the word. But you were victorious! With the expensive yarn, ahaha oh dear.

[breathedout]

I mean luckily it didn't take very much of the expensive yarn, but yes, WHAT A MESS

[anelith]

That is quite a victory!

[breathedout]

Ahahaha THANK YOU, some days you really have to work for it I guess.

[felinejumper]

strongly appreciate your provision of a visual cue for "hangy closet thing" in the midst of a heroic stream of consciousness

[breathedout]

Ahahaha I realize I at that point could have called it a, whatever, "hanging closet sweater organizer," except that it's not organizing my sweaters and anyway I felt my terminology had more élan.

[chestnut_pod]

Oh no 😂

All hail the knitter triumphant!

[breathedout]

\o/ \o/ \o/

[pennypaperbrain]

This would end with me buying a new closet. Though perhaps everything in San Francisco does not come from, or can be replaced from, IKEA.

[breathedout]

LOL I stared at this comment for a solid ten seconds like, "buy.... a new.... closet... ??? WHAT SORCERY IS THIS??" before I remembered you Europeans use wardrobe-style pieces of furniture for your clothes. Usually our closets here are built into the walls of our bedrooms, so you're kind of stuck with what you've got unless you own your own house and are very handy. (To be fair, in my case "what I've got" is actually pretty generous; I just own a lot of clothes.) I think the IKEAs here do sell wardrobes, but there's really no place in my room where I could stick one!

[unreconstructedfangirl]

Enjoyed 😂.

[breathedout]

LOL oh good I'm so glad!

[fennishjournal]

Oh man, what a DAY! But you conquered it in the end! Hurray!