Kitchen renovation, 2: Empty Room Blues

[tysolna]

Thought I might as well bore you with an update on the kitchen situation. ;-)

I used to have a hanging cabinet with glass doors, which is actually a lovely leftover piece of furniture from my mum's kitchen a flat ago. Now, cleaned and polished, it hangs in my dad's cellar and houses his model train engines.
My kitchen, on the other hand, is emptier each day. The same hanging cabinet was the last piece of furniture in use, if you don't count the fridge and sink as furniture, which I personally don't. Now, my coffee and tea making facilities are in my living room, as well as a lot of kitchenware, I can't use the stove any more, and tomorrow the fridge will be de-iced, after I empty it of the breakfast yoghurt.
Late last night, when I made myself a cuppa, I went to open the cupboard in which I used to have dry goods, to get some sunflower seeds to nibble on, but my hand touched only empty air - the cupboard's been gone since last Wednesday.
There was a time when I would have kept a piece of the old wallpaper. Instead, I took a picture of it. Already, I could kick myself for not taking pictures of the kitchen as it used to be.

For a while, I felt strangely sad about emptying the cupboards and throwing things away. This was, after all, my first kitchen. Then I started to feel annoyed at not having a kitchen (and only half a bathroom, since the water pipes are connected and will probably cause an overflow should I decide to take a shower) for a week and a half. However, since annoyance leads to anger (which leads to pain and suffering), I have now decided to treat the whole thing as a semi-adventure-holiday. I will help with the renovation as much as I can, take showers in my parent's bathroom downstairs, eat my mum's cooking for a week (yumyum), make my tea in my living room, and have fun doing it, knowing that by this time in a week and two days, I will have a cool new kitchen.

Comments

[dadi.livejournal.com]

This is a great anti-attachment therapy :)

[tysolna]

I used to be far too attached to material things, and to some extent I still am. Although, by now there are only two things I would save if my house were burning and all living beings safe outside: My violin and my computer. Everything else can be replaced. :)