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lydy, ddb, Pat, and Lois came over to help move the dining room and office furniture back where it had been before the floor was finished.
For the dining room, this involved five large heavy bookshelves (4'x7'x8" of solid wood) and 35 or so boxes of books. People carefully followed my instructions about putting the boxes approximately in front of the shelves that they'd match alphabetically; it wasn't until I was on the last couple of boxes that I remembered that I'd boxed (and thus numbered) the books in reverse alpha order so they'd go back easily. It also, of course, meant moving the dining room table back in place. I need to buy dining room chairs; I've been making do with folding chairs for way too long.
The challenge for the office was putting together a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. I'd acquired a U-shaped desk from Freecycle, but it came with no instructions and with some of the connecting brackets missing. Pat, who is good at 3-dimensional perception, offered to figure out how it went together. She and DDB did most of the figuring-out work, and Lydy and I provided grunt labor. Pat left around 6 to go to dinner, and we finally finished around 7:30. The desk isn't quite usable yet, because it needs some more brackets to anchor everything together (we ran out of screws), but it definitely looks like a desk.
I have way too many boxes labeled "Office" that I don't know where I'm going to put the contents. I know many of them are reference books, and I have two office bookshelves for those, and some are obsolete software that I can get rid of, but a lot of it is going to be stuff that wants a place and I don't have one yet.
I also found several boxes of "bedroom misc." that I'd managed to live without for a year. I don't have the fortitude to throw them out unopened, but I'm hoping I can manage to dispose of most of the contents. My current bedroom setup doesn't have a large drawer left over for catch-all items like a spare alarm clock, a purse I don't use, perfume I use once in a blue moon, and so on.
Yesterday and today I reshelved all the paperback fiction. I still have four boxes of anthologies, and a box and a half of media tie-in novels (mostly Trek) that I need to figure out how to organize, but it's good to have the bulk of my paperback fiction back in place.
I need to go back to work on the upstairs library, the "real" library. That's where the hardcover fiction and all the nonfiction are to be kept. I also have room for several feet of track shelving, which will be for the SF magazines and overflow shelving for paperback fiction.
My current theory is that I'll do as much work as I can by myself, and when I start feeling bogged down and hopeless, I'll call Stephanie the organizer to help me. It's very cheering to know I have three hours of her time still paid for, though I don't expect that will cover all that I'll need her to do.
lydy, ddb, Pat, and Lois came over to help move the dining room and office furniture back where it had been before the floor was finished. For the dining room, this involved five large heavy bookshelves (4'x7'x8" of solid wood) and 35 or so boxes of books. People carefully followed my instructions about putting the boxes approximately in front of the shelves that they'd match alphabetically; it wasn't until I was on the last couple of boxes that I remembered that I'd boxed (and thus numbered) the books in reverse alpha order so they'd go back easily. It also, of course, meant moving the dining room table back in place. I need to buy dining room chairs; I've been making do with folding chairs for way too long.
The challenge for the office was putting together a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. I'd acquired a U-shaped desk from Freecycle, but it came with no instructions and with some of the connecting brackets missing. Pat, who is good at 3-dimensional perception, offered to figure out how it went together. She and DDB did most of the figuring-out work, and Lydy and I provided grunt labor. Pat left around 6 to go to dinner, and we finally finished around 7:30. The desk isn't quite usable yet, because it needs some more brackets to anchor everything together (we ran out of screws), but it definitely looks like a desk.
I have way too many boxes labeled "Office" that I don't know where I'm going to put the contents. I know many of them are reference books, and I have two office bookshelves for those, and some are obsolete software that I can get rid of, but a lot of it is going to be stuff that wants a place and I don't have one yet.
I also found several boxes of "bedroom misc." that I'd managed to live without for a year. I don't have the fortitude to throw them out unopened, but I'm hoping I can manage to dispose of most of the contents. My current bedroom setup doesn't have a large drawer left over for catch-all items like a spare alarm clock, a purse I don't use, perfume I use once in a blue moon, and so on.
Yesterday and today I reshelved all the paperback fiction. I still have four boxes of anthologies, and a box and a half of media tie-in novels (mostly Trek) that I need to figure out how to organize, but it's good to have the bulk of my paperback fiction back in place.
I need to go back to work on the upstairs library, the "real" library. That's where the hardcover fiction and all the nonfiction are to be kept. I also have room for several feet of track shelving, which will be for the SF magazines and overflow shelving for paperback fiction.
My current theory is that I'll do as much work as I can by myself, and when I start feeling bogged down and hopeless, I'll call Stephanie the organizer to help me. It's very cheering to know I have three hours of her time still paid for, though I don't expect that will cover all that I'll need her to do.
