jeliza: custom avatar by hexdraws (Default)
2018-09-29 06:11 pm

Moving furniture

So much more important things I should be journaling about, but I lack the attention span to write about anything emotional or complex, and lack the time to go through London pictures yet.

I have gotten the towers of hanoi moving in my room again, helped by the realization that the plan I'd been working from for several years was all about working in a medium I no longer do regularly, and my new needs are much simpler and cheaper to accomplish -- but still, everything in my space is moving, and woooooow it's amazing how much crapnel accumulates under beds. It's all rather terrifying looking right now, and there is a chance I will have to sleep on the couch tonight, but at least there is movement on something I need and that is under my control, and that counts for a lot right now.

I've got an external deadline for once, because I need to make a LOT of stock for my show on the 6th and then TONS for GeekGirlCon, and the space I was attempting to do it in has become basically impossible; when I finish this, which should happen by Monday night, my workspace will be waaaay more effective and ergonomic and have more storage suitable to art supplies.  I'll have a significant drop in privacy as a result until a not-in-my-control piece of furniture assembly happens, but I can live with that.

UPDATE: the furniture that was supposed to be here Monday will actually be here Thursday. And after moving the bed (piece #3) to its new position, I have discovered that I apparently mismeasured, and this plan will completely not work. Damnit.





jeliza: custom avatar by hexdraws (Default)
2018-03-01 11:27 am
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places for everything and nothing is in its place

Nice people in a big truck came and now the hallway is now full of very, very large & heavy boxes of Ikea flat-pack. I haven't really been able to get the space clear where the shelving in question needs to go, because of all the stuff that needs a place to live (hence shelves) so ... I guess I'm going to have to Towers of Hanoi it. And build it in a different room first and slide it down the hall which means no one gets to play Overwatch or Splatoon until I'm done.

If I just pile absolutely everything on the bed that will force me to get it done in a day so I can sleep, right? (I mean, yeah, I could just cuddle down in piles of clothes, but I haven't sunk that low in at least four years.)

The planned Monday trip to IKEA to buy the box/drawer things that will actually fit into the spaces in the KALLAX got cancelled for scheduling crisis reasons, BUT it turns out that Target's line of cubbies are exactly the same dimensions so maybe we won't need to drive to Renton after all? (Ooh, if I ship to store I could get ones with stars on them by Tuesday! ... Or if I settle for merely cute stripes I could have them NOW.)

I really, really want to have a clear floor and organized space again, and now it's so close I can taste at, while at the same time, my schedule is utterly blocked up. Some of the blocks are fun (S managed to score Hamilton tickets for, uh, most of us? Luckily R doesn't actually care about the musical.