So, this weekend, one of the housemates moved out, and we moved out of the downstairs bedroom and up into the room she vacated. It’s much smaller than the downstairs bedroom (probably about half the size), but it is rectilinear, which makes it actually a little easier to use the space, which is good. Still, there was a *huge* closet downstairs, and even though the room we’re moving into has the second-largest closet in the house, it’s not quite enough to accomodate how we grew in to the last closet.
We ended up getting together four entire trash bags full of clothes we’re going to donate, either because they don’t fit right, we never wear them, or they’re just … ugly. I threw out another trashbag full of clothes with too many holes – socks and t-shirts, mostly. Pretty crazy to think that we’ve had that much stuff sitting around, not really doing anything. Also found, in our closet, was a box full of boxes. Nothing else, just boxes. With receipts for Christmas presents.
Fortunately, the tighter accomodations are forcing us to take inventory of what we have, and what we need, and reconcile the difference. Next week’s probably going to be all about the front lawn, since two of the rooms (hopefully) will be getting drywalled this week. Then, next weekend’s cleaning up the common spaces, and the following is the complete strip, pack and organization of the kitchen. Man. Should be crazy-assed.
Poor Mobius is confused, though – he’s not used to the upstairs, as he’s been largely restricted to the downstairs, ’cause the roommate who left didn’t like him around, upstairs. Thankfully, everyone in the house now is cool with him wherever, and so he has free run of the up and down stairs (except bedrooms that aren’t ours). I think he’s upset that his familiar space (our downstairs bedroom) has been totally stripped and moved, and the rest of the downstairs is so full of assorted crap that his familiar places (the couches) are almost totally … occupied by other stuff.
So, gotta clear out some space for him to relax in, and hope that he makes the transition ok. He’s been through starker transitions, so this shouldn’t be too bad.
The doppleganging continues. The new dresser I bought (apparently, technically it’s a chest, but I’m going to keep calling it a dresser) arrived last week, and so I went through a major re-organization of my closet and dresser. The new dresser is much larger than the old one, allowing me to free up some much needed space in my closet. Now I can actually iron clothes in advance and not have to worry about them getting wrinkled again from being all bunched together.
I took a picture of the dresser last night and I’ll probably post it today on Flickr.
Sounds like you’ve got a lot going on lately. They say variety is the spice of life, don’t they? Too bad it can also be the source of stress and postal mentalities!
Wanted to check up on you bud, don’t know if you remember me from a few years ago… you, Clayton and I hit it off pretty good on the IGN Dreamcast boards (talking games, skateboarding, etc) and I ended up falling off the face of the earth but managed to hang on by my nails and pull myself back onto it.
Figured I’d touch base with you and see how things have been.
Drop me an email if you get the chance… mwcooper at comcast dot net
Hope to hear from you!
Here’s the dresser – http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadlewis/14153091/
And for the person above me, the Dreamcast boards are still around, it’s just called thegamersforum.com now.
Chad,
Thanks a ton for the link… I forgot about that community! Good to see it’s still going after all these years.