Office Progress

I have successfully avoided doing actual de-cluttering of my office by shopping for it! Had an adventure lugging home 70lbs of diy shelves which collapsed and broke upon completion. Lugged it all back and returned it, then invested in shelves already in one piece at twice the price. You get what you pay for. The second store also carried them to my car for me.

Today, I bought a rug and a new chair and found a silly bulletin board that just happened to complement it all. My desk chair had been hopelessly low and ineffecively padded with pillows. Now I have a short barstool that is a little to tall but makes me feel so much better!

C.R.A.P.

First things first. Have to organize my office, such as it is. My little corner of the basement is where I stash everything when I run out of time to truly put things away properly. That has to stop. My brain requires a clean space. Not a very friendly little corner either. We'll see what we can do.

I bought another set of shelves with some of my Christmas money. Already had trouble with those. The bottom assembly tipped while being assembled so 2 of the attach points are not secure. To satisfy my mock-OCD I will need to find the wood putty and re-do those points. Gack.

Also in my way of setting up the shelves is a pile of unsorted crap in front of the shelves I am replacing, which also need to be taken apart and re-appointed. So, I'm back to the pile of crap I was avoiding in the first place by shopping for shelves.

Crap. Needs a nice acronym definition. Let's see... continually regenerating... assorted... pile. Eh. Because it's not really crap. It's good stuff. I get rid of actual crap. This stuff just needs to be assigned a "proper place" as it were.

This sounds fun again

As of 3:30 today I'm on winter break; I just recently figured out how to fix my camera; and I just knit my first stitches since visiting New York in July.

Prepared in July to take on staging a new version of La Fille Mal Gardee (apologies, I don't know how to accent the e and will look into it). Then discovered that we were going to do another Nutcracker Ballet Tea Party in addition to the new ballet. Fast forward to today: Both ballets turned out fabulous! Thanks to 3 snow days recently I have begun to remedy the squalorous state to which my house had retreated. And I knit something! It was just a little Christmas ornament for Mini-Me's teacher, but it was knitting! And I am sewing some Christmas presents this week with time to spare. Ahhhh.

Pix of craftiness forthcoming. Enjoy the pretty ballet in the meantime.