The house is in turmoil. We turn rooms upside down and inside out, box things up and stash the boxes or makes piles of things to get rid of, and then we do our best to put the rooms back in some sort of order so we can get through each day without feeling like we’re living inside a hurricane. The dining room that turned into a library has been turned back into the dining room. The family room that turned into the dining room has been mostly turned back into living space, although it’s also doubling as the dog’s room for now. And it’s kind of empty. We’re not moving the couch and TV back in there (they’re staying in the family room that used to be the formal living room), so we only have two cabinets in there, the two ugly green chairs, that big-ish desk we could never find space for, Riley’s food and water, and his crate. Sounds kind of a like a lot, now that I’ve listed it all out, but it’s a big space. Lots of open area left that won’t get filled. The house looks weird.
We still have a couple of projects we’ll probably try to start once we get the house on the market. We want to get the rest of our CD collection converted to mp3, and we want to scan all of the pictures we’ve developed and accumulated. Both are time-consuming and mind-numbingly boring, but we should be able to do them while doing other things. And that will leave us with portable backups. Should have done that a long time ago.
We’re clearly a little obsessed. House and dog, dog and house. My dance classes started back up, but we have too much stuff to do in the house, so I haven’t gone back. I had to miss zumba the last two weeks because I had to work late, and I’m planning to miss it tonight because there’s too much to do in the house. I haven’t been to yoga in months (first dance class, then house stuff). We’ve done the big obvious things (pack up the books, stash the bookshelves, switch the rooms), and now it’s getting a little harder to focus. Lots of little things need to be done. Like, hey – we haven’t gone through the coat closet to see what we can get rid of. I know I have at least one coat in there that needs to go. I want to box up the rest of the fiction (what’s left on that one shelf next to the TV – we’re keeping those shelves up through showing the house – we’ll just have other stuff on them), but that’s only going to fill one box. I can make another pass through my dressers and closet for stuff to get rid of, and failing that, I can certainly box up the summer stuff and possibly even separate it into clothes that I’ll keep with me and clothes that I’ll store. And THAT decision may (really should) prompt me to get rid of the clothes I would store. If our plan really works out, anything that gets stored will be stored for at least a couple of years, possibly longer, and will I really wear those clothes then? Well, maybe – I have (and wear) clothes that I’ve had for that long and longer, but still. I should probably not plan to store a lot of clothes. Seems silly.
Well, this has been helpful. I think I have tonight’s to-do list all ready. Thanks, guys!