Boxes, boxes, unpack all the boxes
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celticdragonflyWe're having a quiet weekend. Many of the people we know are either at Worldcon in Boston or at DragonCon in Atlanta. We're spending the weekend trying to work on more unpacking of the house.
Ten months we've been living here. You'd think we'd be completely unpacked by now. But noooo. My big study still has unpacked boxes, and a lot of what has been unpacked has just been shoved into desk drawers or onto shelves, and will still need to be gone through again on some further date, but at least we're making progress. It's starting to be somewhere I enjoy spending some of my free time, and I can see what it's going to turn into. (Although it'd be a lot better room if we could get the catbox somewhere else.) The "guest room" is still a wilderness of half-open boxes with stuff we don't know what to do with spilling out of them. I really need to get us to do more work in there.
Trouble is, neither of these are babysafe places, so with the three kids, and two of them little ones, it's hard to get time for the two of us to work up there together. And it's one of those things that seems so much harder to do alone. If we're both there, we can hold things up to each other and say "what do you think we should do with this? Toss it?" and it seems that things we don't need are much more likely to get tossed if we're working on it together.
We did get some pictures up on the wall - well,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenite did for me, and he's working on getting some extra lighting up for me in the study. We unpacked a bunch of pictures, and I'm trying to decide what should go where. With all these moves and living in rental houses, I haven't gotten very good at putting up pictures. But I want a lot of them up. Two pictures that we finally did get up, for the very first time, are a pair of seascapes that came from my grandmother Dorothy Deam's house. They're impressive big pictures, and I like them. 'Squall at Sea' and 'Companion'. Allegedly rather valuable pictures. I'm not much on appraising art, I'm afraid my reaction to that is "really? Okay, if you say so". But they're nice, and they're now hanging on the wall across from the little old couch that sits in the 'nook' off the hallway upstairs.
Now if I can just figure out where and how to put up some of the others. A little at a time....
I swear, I do not understand how people manage their households so much better than I do. We recently met a lady who'd moved out here to Fort Worth only a few months ago, and we were invited to a social evening at her house last month. She's completely unpacked and everything was fancy and neat and she had pictures up everywhere. She has two kids, not three, and yes, she hasn't had a new baby post move, but still, it makes me feel I ought to be doing better!
I want to hunt through more boxes for another reason - I have this marvelous outfit I want to wear to FenCon, and I can only find half of it right now.
Ten months we've been living here. You'd think we'd be completely unpacked by now. But noooo. My big study still has unpacked boxes, and a lot of what has been unpacked has just been shoved into desk drawers or onto shelves, and will still need to be gone through again on some further date, but at least we're making progress. It's starting to be somewhere I enjoy spending some of my free time, and I can see what it's going to turn into. (Although it'd be a lot better room if we could get the catbox somewhere else.) The "guest room" is still a wilderness of half-open boxes with stuff we don't know what to do with spilling out of them. I really need to get us to do more work in there.
Trouble is, neither of these are babysafe places, so with the three kids, and two of them little ones, it's hard to get time for the two of us to work up there together. And it's one of those things that seems so much harder to do alone. If we're both there, we can hold things up to each other and say "what do you think we should do with this? Toss it?" and it seems that things we don't need are much more likely to get tossed if we're working on it together.
We did get some pictures up on the wall - well,
selenite did for me, and he's working on getting some extra lighting up for me in the study. We unpacked a bunch of pictures, and I'm trying to decide what should go where. With all these moves and living in rental houses, I haven't gotten very good at putting up pictures. But I want a lot of them up. Two pictures that we finally did get up, for the very first time, are a pair of seascapes that came from my grandmother Dorothy Deam's house. They're impressive big pictures, and I like them. 'Squall at Sea' and 'Companion'. Allegedly rather valuable pictures. I'm not much on appraising art, I'm afraid my reaction to that is "really? Okay, if you say so". But they're nice, and they're now hanging on the wall across from the little old couch that sits in the 'nook' off the hallway upstairs. Now if I can just figure out where and how to put up some of the others. A little at a time....
I swear, I do not understand how people manage their households so much better than I do. We recently met a lady who'd moved out here to Fort Worth only a few months ago, and we were invited to a social evening at her house last month. She's completely unpacked and everything was fancy and neat and she had pictures up everywhere. She has two kids, not three, and yes, she hasn't had a new baby post move, but still, it makes me feel I ought to be doing better!
I want to hunt through more boxes for another reason - I have this marvelous outfit I want to wear to FenCon, and I can only find half of it right now.
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Date: 2004-09-04 04:57 pm (UTC)I've also got poster frames in my hallway filled with art from Allan & Scott. At the end of the school year they pick their favorite pieces to put in the frames. I'll bet you could do that with Brendan's stuff. Maggie and Jamie are too young for that yet. But you take great pictures...blow them up on a color copier and buy some inexpensive frames for them!
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Date: 2004-09-04 05:28 pm (UTC)I wanna go to FenCon!
I do find that I feel far more "settled" as soon as things are hung on the walls. Yes, sometimes they get moved around, but that's just how life is.
We're still dealing with boxes of "office stuff" - sheer miscellany, papers and computer gear and cables of all kinds and actual office supplies, with the occasional bit of memorabilia, tools, dice, and the like tossed in.
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Date: 2004-09-04 05:52 pm (UTC)Failing that, I'm still hoping to go to GaFilk. And have you thought about ConDFW?
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Date: 2004-09-04 08:17 pm (UTC)I don't travel well, so maybe I should stop tormenting myself :-(
But I'm looking forward to seeing y'all at GaFilk!
Unpacking? You scare me!
Date: 2004-09-04 05:28 pm (UTC)Besides that, I despair of packing/unpacking! And if anyone, furry or otherwise, stands still too long in this house they're liable to get thrown away! Bwah-hah-hah!
Re: Unpacking? You scare me!
Date: 2004-09-04 06:05 pm (UTC)Remember when your phone number changed and you guys didn't even think to tell me? Do NOT think you can do something like that! ;-)
I better call when the baby finishes nursing so I can get the good gossip.
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Date: 2004-09-05 05:02 pm (UTC)(And unpacking the library with a young child -- a project still not entirely finished because the spouse co-opted some of the bookshelves to sort OTHER cruft onto -- was SHEER HECK and FRUSTRATING.)
So you win. O:>