I don't think I can convey on here how much I absolutely hate the work of "home improvement."


In the other room my father is currently watching Trading Spaces, which is apparently a show that is absolutely loved by everyone from my mother, father, ex-stepmother, people at work...

I just don't get it. Yeah, I love to have a room that is nice and looks good. I even like to think about how a given room like my bedroom would look with the furniture re-arranged for a different/more feng-shui look and feel.

But I just cannot get into the actual doing of re-arranging that room.


Maybe it's the fact that my afore-mentioned ex-stepmother was a bit overzealous whenever we would get down to doing home improvement work. Maybe it was the fact that we would always try to complete job A with tools fit for job B. Maybe it was the fact that what should have been a simple one-day job of painting a wall invariably would turn into a complex, weeks-long repolish of the entire room.


Whatever the reason, I have been spoiled for life on home improvement projects, to the point that I cannot watch even a few seconds of shows like Trading Spaces without feeling physically nauseated.


When I own a house of my own some day in the future, if and when I deem it necessary to redo a room (and that will be a big "if,") I will most definitely hire someone to do it for me. And if I can't afford to outsource, it's just not going to happen. It's that simple.


I hate, hate, hate, HATE home improvement.