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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - (see all news for this day)
only three boxes to go - 05:23 PM
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smiley spent a couple of hours this afternoon with shroom & nanna & poppy at their place & so i used the time to put away a few more things from some boxes. the second shipment of boxes arrived with no troubles last week & so i've been collecting them one or two at a time from their house. i have everything here now .. well, minus my computer keyboard which shroom was borrowing while he had some issues with his wireless one.
so now there are only three boxes left to unpack .. & of those three, two are only partly full since i've been working on them since they arrived with the first shipment. the only box which i haven't opened is smiley's big toy chest thing. it's not full of his toys, though, except his large tip truck thing, but rather it has bulky, but mostly empty things in it like a large bucket, a couple of step stools, the sort of things which take up a lot of space, but which aren't heavy. the toy chest itself is quite sturdy & empty space in itself, so i figured it was a good place for things which would be a bit of a pain to pack into cardboard boxes.
there's not actually much in that box that i need to use at this point. i'll not let that give me a reason to procrastinate packing away the things within it, though. i'm so close now that i'm keen to finish getting everything away into their proper places.
once that's done, all i need to do is get rid of the copious numbers of boxes filled with packing paper & ikea packaging that's cluttering up the garage. thank goodness i have the garage to keep them in until i can find a way to dispose of them.
that's the last thing which is making me just a little bit uptight. the inside of the house, except for one small corner in the dining room beside my computer desk, is an organisational dream, there's not an ounce of clutter or mess (not even in the space i just mentioned since even that stuff is laid out relatively neatly) & everything has a place & is in its place. as for that spot next to my desk, well, once i have a table there, there'll be no room for the things on the floor & some of those things will have a permanent place on the table, such as the sewing machine.
actually, there is one place in the kitchen which bugs me a little bit. the pantry. i have some largish tubs into which i want to put all the pantry things to allow easy access to everything (just pull out the tub to get to something hard to reach or to clean the pantry shelves), but i haven't yet got around to putting them in there. also the bottom shelf is full of plastic plates, cups & storage containers & is a bit of a mess. (i know i said that i wanted to avoid plastic, but there are definitely occasions when it's useful, such as the picnic i went on the other day.) maybe once the garage is clear of boxes, i can find a place in there for all the plastic. the large tv cabinet, which i was using before i got the low coffee table to put the tv on instead, could be good for that stuff. at the moment it has some of smiley's toys in the bottom of it, but i'm planning to put all of his toys in some storage space under the stairs, so hopefully that'll be empty sooner rather than later.
things are coming together quite nicely. everyone who's visited has been very impressed with how well organised my place is. as silly as it sounds, i think i have ikea to thank for that. well, them & howards storage world. lol!! 
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