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[sethrak]

Decluttering the bedroom proceeds apace. I found, buried under heaps of heaplike objects, three empty boxes from Amazon.com, addressed to davner, and too small for any use as storage; a largish half-empty box of t-shirts shipped from Kuwait so Dav wouldn't have to lug excess luggage home, which had been crushed by heavier objects atop it so that the structural integrity had ceased pining for the fjords and just booked a flight for Oslo; and a wide assortment of small misplaced articles.

The articles have been dispersed to their proper homes. The clothing's in the hamper, lest it still harbor camel spider eggs or something. And the boxes will be gone in the morning, along with a broken floor lamp.

I'd get cracking on my dresser, or the first baby steps of the closet re-organizing.... Except that part of the water damage caused by Ida's remnants and the Nor'easter is the renewal of a slow seeping leak in and around our bedroom window from the roof. To get the interior part of the damage taken care of, Maintenance needs room to maneuver - and right now there's a king-size bed and two giant trunks of emergency supplies wedged along that wall. The perpendicular wall, in addition to our headboard, has the nightstand and my dresser wedged into place. No wriggle room at all.

This will require moving furniture. Mwa-ha-ha.... >:D

(If you read this on a brief stop at your parents' house to rest and re-arm, relax, honey. I'm going to move stuff in stages - and I am entirely too intelligent to try moving the entire bed, mattress box springs and all, by myself. I'll take the mattress and box springs off the frame first.

Stop looking at me like that. I'm not the fragile 105 lb. waif I was when you met me.)


((And if the reference to pining for the fjords confuses you, look up "Dead Parrot Sketch" on youTube - and don't bitch about it being "too British"! ::amused poke:: ))


The bedroom looks much better already - and I haven't even tackled the ziggurat of clothing on davner's dresser. Or my personal heap of books and stored baby clothes... Or, er, the largish heap of paperwork and sentimental items under the bed.... ::cough:: That stuff's just getting shuffled to the right, under the bed's new location, until Maintenance finishes their repairs.

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[shinjuyuki.livejournal.com]

I like the ziggurat. Over the summer when I told katie that she needed to clean up her piles of stuff because 1) I had to get to my stuff under the little window 2)look there's books at the bottom you want to read and 3)they were beginning to ooze into eachother. She likes to tell me they are well organized piles of stuff out of the way. But laughs when I describe their invasion of the little walking space that was the norm when I lived there full time as oozing. And somehow even though I took that small dresser and desk you had bought with me to my apartment that nook is full of stuff again. So far the only messy part of my room is the closet floor, which just asks to be messy, and I indulge it. I love being able to walk in my room without memorising where to put my feet without disrupting piles of stuffs

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

(Sorry for the late reply; been quite busy.)

Yeah, I have a tender spot in my heart for his ziggurat of clothing too. ^_^ Took me ages, after he left for his last deployment, to even think about putting his stuff away. It made me feel lonelier to see his accustomed bits and pieces not where they used to be. But if we're going to be moving in a month and a half - and if we're to have maintenance in the master bedroom for repairs - I need to try to keep our combined clutter under wraps.

"And somehow even though I took that small dresser and desk you had bought with me to my apartment that nook is full of stuff again. "

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.....

This is me doing my impression of Jon Stewart holding one hand to his chin, taking it away with his mouth open in aghast silence, and holding his chin again. And again.

That was not exactly a small alcove. If Mom didn't buy her new furniture - what is she filling it with?! if it were you or I, I'd say 'Books'. But at least you or I would have a bookshelf for them! And walking space to get from the door to the bed to the bookshelf!

I'm not the tidiest person in the world, but I have limits. Ziggurat of clean folded clothes atop dressers? Dirty clothing on the bathroom floor? Zodling toys here there and everywhere? Not a problem. A total inability to walk unless you *memorize where the few bare spots are*?! Problem. -_- Maybe Katie will grow up to be that lady from Labyrinth, who carried a stack of stuff three times her size on her back....

::huggles you:: If you ever want to run away to CO for winter break or summer break, let me know.

[shinjuyuki.livejournal.com]

no the room isn't really that bad i like to exaggerate. there is walkway. I just went home for the day yesterday and it's much better.