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We haven’t even started the full demo yet, and it already looks like we live inside a Home Depot display gone rogue. The kitchen is half-packed, half-functional, and 100% chaos.
We’re currently operating out of the dining room — toaster beside the fruit bowl, coffee maker balanced on a folding table, and a baby who thinks cardboard boxes are his new playground. The fridge hums from the hallway like an uninvited guest.
I’m trying to keep a sense of order, but the minute I tape up a box, I immediately need whatever’s inside it. It’s a fun new game called “executive dysfunction but make it domestic.”
I keep telling myself this phase will be short. Just a few more days of rearranging and then we hit the big part: walls coming down, floors going up, dust invading every crevice of our lives.
It’s weirdly symbolic — the tearing down before the rebuild. Every renovation, like every mental health journey, seems to start with chaos. You can’t improve a space (or a self) without making a mess first.
So I’m reminding myself that discomfort isn’t failure; it’s just transition. The mess means something’s happening. Progress is rarely quiet — it’s loud, dusty, and inconvenient.
🫠 Chaos level: 10/10, soon to be upgraded.
💡 Lesson: Growth and drywall dust both get worse before they get better.
🧊 PS: My First Ad
Somehow, in the middle of all this, I got my first ever ad. 😂
It’s with Beehiiv — the platform I use to send this newsletter — and they’ve got their Winter Release coming November 13th.
I have no idea what’s in it, but I’m nosy enough to find out. Maybe it’s a magic button that makes newsletters (or kitchens) build themselves. Whatever it is, I’ll be watching from my temporary dining-room “office” with drywall dust in my coffee.
Talk soon,
Tara
CEO of Chaos & Co.
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