[Round Up] Describe Your Personal Sanctuary
3Do you have a little slice of home that’s uniquely yours? Your refuge? Let’s hear about what’s going on in there, from the decor to the, um…activities. (Calling all man caves and she sheds and garages and bonus rooms and sun porches and whatever space you call your own.)
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I have many children and no spare room, so I sit in my car for gentle sobbing, I mean focused writing time. Describe your own spots so that I can live vicariously.
Sometimes I hide in the closet sitting on the floor with the light off in the hopes of hiding from the family. They usually find me and ask if I need anything, to which I reply, “to be left alone for a bit”. A few minutes later they return…alas, moms get no down time. This is why I vacation once or twice a year without them
@cbilyak this is also why during lockdown there was a spike in sales of personal indoor tents
@cbilyak the trick is to never admit you’re in there.
/showme a personal sanctuary sprayed with round-up
@mediocrebot
/showme a less appealing personal sanctuary still dripping with round-up from every overhang.
@mediocrebot Yes, that’s more like it.
@mediocrebot perfection
Live alone
So my home is my castle
/showme a one bedroom personal castle
@Cerridwyn That looks cozy!
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh
Had an uncle in France that had an old chateau built in around 1400. In fact Joan of Arc supposedly stayed there for a while after the (unsuccessful) seige at la Cherité. Stone walls and high ceilings make for cold AF bedrooms!
@Cerridwyn Looks like Hogwarts!
@chienfou @Kyeh
Just buy lots of quilts
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh
The bed canopy is a little sketchy though…
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @PhysAssist
It’s from the M.C. Escher collection…
@Cerridwyn @chienfou @Kyeh I would be a lot more worried about the fireplace below the window, which doesn’t appear to have a chimney. I hope it’s a fake fire and the heat comes from the radiator in the back.
@Cerridwyn @chienfou
And cover up those walls with a lot more tapestries.
I also live alone, but since I’m surrounded be so much stuff from Meh, I like to sit in my car as my sanctuary. Problem is, doing that drains the battery in my key fob, so I have to remember to put in in a Faraday pouch.
@heartny I don’t know how a few dozen TrackRs would help this problem, but I’m sure they would.
@jouest I have a few dozen, but I’m pretty confident that they probably have dead batteries.
/showme Floofed on a pile made of a bunch of catshirts
(minus the part where I iz not a cat.)
@mediocrebot scoop it all up and send it to me! The shirts and of course the cat that comes with it. Though like many AI creations not sure it has correct number of arms/legs/fingers/paws. But looks so cozy there I don’t want to disturb it to check.
@narfcake
I do have some doubts.
@narfcake So you say…
@macromeh @blaineg
https://thegamercat.com/comic/living-the-life/
The bedroom is an eclectic mix of inflatables, vintage stereo gear, and a (literal) plush loft bed. No room for the trains, though.
@PooltoyWolf I hope they all get along well with each other, that’s quite a pack.
@OnionSoup Oh they do hahaha
@PooltoyWolf hey, quick question. how’d you get a photo of my nightmare from three weeks ago?
@jouest Now I want to know more about your nightmare!
@PooltoyWolf That image would do the a.i. bot proud
@phendrick My blow up friends are indignant.
There’s two of us, and it’s a small old house, so anywhere is a sanctuary. But I do have a hopelessly cluttered office/workshop full of computers, electronic assembly gear and projects, scale model kits and all that goes along with that. And books, lots of books.
@blaineg
We have very similar, although also totally different circumstances.
We’re DINKs, have 3 dogs, innumerable koi [outside in their 1/4-acre pond], and approx. 8 acres of woods surrounding our small [2 bdrm] contemporary log house [picture a ranch with walk-out basement set into a hillside].
Our office/storeroom/exercise area is very full of stuff, as is our garage/barn and basement.
A significant portion of this is the remnants of stuff my in-laws moved in with 30 years ago, and then never reclaimed before they died [elsewhere] 5 weeks apart about 18 months ago.
We are slowly trying to winnow out what we or SWMBO’s sibs/nieces/nephews want or will use vs dreck to be donated.
Any tools by default stay in my custody though.
@blaineg @PhysAssist I respect the tool rule.
“No, you can’t borrow my tools. My tools come with me. I come and help you.”
@blaineg @jouest
Exactly, the list of people I’ll let use my tools has exactly 2 people on it.
@jouest @PhysAssist My dads’ dad was an auto mechanic, and had his own shop. Dad said he had a sign in the shop that said:
“The guy that loans tools is out.”
Read that either way you want.
I put all my money into buying a home outright a few years back. I make fun of my friends for putting all their eggs in a basket (car, games) when I still wound up doing it myself (“But there’s guaranteed equity! It’s like investing in a business!”). It is still very nice, very quiet, a bit aways away from everyone, but equidistant from everything.
Until I realized this year that between landscaping, land tax, insurance, and more insurance, I can’t afford utilities (or an exterminator).
@pakopako It could be worse. You might be one of the people who bought the lies about the economic advantages of “owning” a typical condo.
@werehatrack I respect that people can live in a shared cube among other people who wish to live in a shared cube, but I like having nobody to blame but myself when something is lit on fire.
(I am very tempted to light something on fire right now.)
@pakopako I’ve known a number who discovered much too late that their solid investment had been vaporized by a sudden drastic increase in condo association assessments as the shared costs of Necessary Things went through the roof.
@pakopako
Ssshhhsh! Your (insurance company and ATF are both probably tracking your posts).
I have no exclusive personal space. I do not anticipate that this will change. It does not bother me overly much. It ought to, but the enormity of the task involved in creating such a space in this house precludes my wanting to create one.
@werehatrack it costs nothing to sit quietly with a bucket on your head.
@jouest No thanks. I need to be able to see the cats so that I can keep them from perforating me via unwanted methods of arrival on my lap, head, shoulders, etc.
I have a country house on 7 acres, so I have a bit of roaming room in my current sanctuary. Wildlife does not respect the boundaries, but people tend to leave me alone. Maybe the sign on the porch helps:
@rockblossom
I love that!
You place sounds a bit like ours.
@rockblossom
What a wonderful sign!
@Kyeh @rockblossom My uncle had a sign in his car stereo & music shop (in the 70’s) that had crossed maces over the text:
“Surviving shoplifters will be prosecuted.”
@rockblossom My current doormat.
@blaineg @rockblossom “definitely not a mimic”
@blaineg @rockblossom Excellent!
@rockblossom I love this sign’s sentiment and its creative font