girlfiend

To Do

1. Refinish or paint trash-picked mirrors and hang them
2. refinish or paint vanity and move upstairs No room. we need to sell it or hang on to it until Miss N is big enough to want it
3. get extra computer out of the office into parlor it was in use, now it is not
4. learn to use a sewing machine again since the first time didn't take. success!
5. Improve my bedroom. It looks like shit: I painted and moved furniture. Much better
a. get bedroom furniture for clothing storage
b.replace bedroom art
c. get a rug for the bedroom
d. curtains
6. hang pictures in baby's room
7. refinish or paint dresser in baby's room and replace the hardware
8.curtains in baby's room
9. reorganize storage in baby's room (Ha! this was done, but now we have another baby and it's a disaster all over again!)
10.reorganize upstairs closets
11. frame unframed pics in F's room
12. replace crappy ceiling fixtures in upstairs parlor and F's room
13.organize books by color
14. reorganize/declutter laundry room storage
15. out a way to make the office less of an eyesore and more of a usable space It's a disaster, but I did what i could

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June 8th, 2009 girlfiend Posted in I have hobbies, odds and ends |

It rained on Friday. I wanted to go to the Y, but F said, “The problem, mama, is that I don’t like it there,” so we decided to stay home. The baby took an early nap and F was playing nicely with his trains so I figured I’d try to knock off the easiest item on my list, organizing the books by color.

Of course T woke up after 40 minutes and there were great stacks of books everywhere. It was a disaster. F’s trains knocked stacks over and T ripped pages out of an already falling apart dictionary. I had to climb on the couch and tables and windowsill to get books up and out of the way. I wasn’t quite sure how to divide the books between the two bookcases and had tried a few different arrangements before deciding on what looked best. When I finally got all of the colors up and in order I had about 100 books that still needed to be shelved. I had to go back to work, arranging and rearranging the stacks to accommodate everything. All together, with a Margarita break, dinner and bedtime, it took about 9 hours to get everything up on the shelves.

Beige and white dominated, followed by black and brown and blue. I have a decent amount of red books, orange made a good showing, and yellow, with the inclusion of cliff’s notes has a small section. I do not have a lot of green books. I only found two pink, which is surprising, considering how much chick lit I read.

I think it looks pretty good.

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