Wow, it's curtains for me.

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I received the "blackout curtains" today.  I thought they would be okay, but... you know how advertising often goes.  I was wrong.  These things are beautiful!  Well, they look like corduroy material, which is perfect for a bachelor, but that's not what makes them beautiful.  They do turn a day room into a nightscape.  Perfect, too, for watching television, playing games, and working on the computer, on top of keeping light and to some extent heat out.  Heat will still pass through the windows, curtains can only do just so much on that score.  I will know more as time goes by, and I test their real ability to keep the place cooler.  Because they work so well I do believe I am going to order three more sets, for my bedrooms downstairs.  Perhaps, in time, more for the upstairs windows if I think that might help.  There are a lot of windows up there, though.  Hmm, I would guess it would take six sets.  Then again, they are smaller windows, perhaps each window won't need a full set.  Or, perhaps, I could do them in small batches, a few a month, on top of my other ongoing projects.  Oh, very nice.

UPS arrived to pick up the incorrect air conditioner, so I thought he would also have the curtains.  Not so.  But later when I looked, I found them.  Two different stops?  Perhaps, or he forgot and was coming back through?  All good.  Amazon has already credited me for the return!  Very good.  But having the nest egg means I don't have to sweat an exchange like I did before.  I love that little thing.  I heard complaints, at Amazon, about the curtains smelling.  Well, they were freshly manufactured and dyed, no guff they will give off a bit of odor.  New jeans even do that!  Idiots.  Anyway, I decided to wash them before putting them up.  And I actually got that done.  I had to redry a load of pants and shirts.  Oh, and the shirts were the ones I was having difficulty with spots.  After four sessions of washing they finally came clean (and I don't mean one wash per cycle, sometimes as many as three, ugh!).  All that got folded or hung, and the curtains finished and put up.  I sure hope they help with the heat a bit.  Oh, and the other curtains were way too long.  These I measured before ordering and they don't touch the floor.  They fit the windows... just... right.

All little things, all working to figure out how to be cool enough to live and sleep, but it is going forward.  I now have partials for winter and summer drapes.  I'll need to wash and put the winter drapes up though.  In time my home will actually be ready for whatever is needed.  Over time, it all just... happens.  Nothing will ever be perfect.  But it might just be a smidgen better tomorrow, a bit better even than that the day after, and so on.  Once I make this my home, or turn this house into a home, life will improve.  It is odd, for the first time in over four decades, to finally have a home... my first home.  I don't know if I will be here until I die, but that might be the way of it, long or short.

I hope you had a good day.