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ACHIEVEMENT #1:
When we moved in, three of the windows that didn't have screens. The screens were in the utility room (helpfully labeled and everything!). Since screens make it easier to welcome in cool morning air without feeling like you're also asking the brazen neighborhood squirrels to just come on in and help themselves, it seemed like a good idea to put them in. (The screens, not the squirrels.)
So I did! One went great -- it was on the ground floor, so I could go outside and bang on the corners to get them to pop into place. The other two were upstairs, and they... went. They haven't fallen out yet, so I feel that the minimum level of screen adequacy has been achieved.
ACHIEVEMENT #2:
There is a balcony that has a sliding glass door and (in theory) a sliding screen door. In reality it was more like a 'pry it open and then use a combination of luck and pleading to move it' screen door. The internet suggested cleaning the track (the person in the video used lysol, which made me laugh and yet was also reassuring, in the sense that I was *also* planning to just grab whatever was handy), and then applying a magical product called WD 40 Spray & Stay Gel. (Note: it is NOT a gel. More like a foaming spray? I may not know much, but I do know what gel looks like, and that was not gel.) I did both of those steps, and voila! The door opens in a (somewhat) more graceful way now! Very exciting!
ACHIEVEMENT #3:
Not a DIY project, but I really felt like the list should have three things on it. So here's my third achievement for this week: I made it to Thursday! Not only is it the day before Friday, it's also PAYDAY!
When we moved in, three of the windows that didn't have screens. The screens were in the utility room (helpfully labeled and everything!). Since screens make it easier to welcome in cool morning air without feeling like you're also asking the brazen neighborhood squirrels to just come on in and help themselves, it seemed like a good idea to put them in. (The screens, not the squirrels.)
So I did! One went great -- it was on the ground floor, so I could go outside and bang on the corners to get them to pop into place. The other two were upstairs, and they... went. They haven't fallen out yet, so I feel that the minimum level of screen adequacy has been achieved.
ACHIEVEMENT #2:
There is a balcony that has a sliding glass door and (in theory) a sliding screen door. In reality it was more like a 'pry it open and then use a combination of luck and pleading to move it' screen door. The internet suggested cleaning the track (the person in the video used lysol, which made me laugh and yet was also reassuring, in the sense that I was *also* planning to just grab whatever was handy), and then applying a magical product called WD 40 Spray & Stay Gel. (Note: it is NOT a gel. More like a foaming spray? I may not know much, but I do know what gel looks like, and that was not gel.) I did both of those steps, and voila! The door opens in a (somewhat) more graceful way now! Very exciting!
ACHIEVEMENT #3:
Not a DIY project, but I really felt like the list should have three things on it. So here's my third achievement for this week: I made it to Thursday! Not only is it the day before Friday, it's also PAYDAY!
