Greetings!
I was so excited to have all the main boxes unpacked that I couldn't help but keep going. Thought the three big boxes I had them put in the living room were full of empty containers & boxes, so I started emptying those next.
Why would I have that many empty containers? Well, every time I moved I needed either more or less containers and different sizes as I unpacked and settled in. By the time I moved up here in 1999 I had moved a little over 30 times since I left home after I graduated (lost count after 30 moves), so I had a lot of settling-in-to-a-new-home experience. This is only my third move in all these years since I moved to Fargo. I have settled down considerably--lol!
Anyways, I got rid of quite a lot of the endless empties after I moved to North Sky. I thought I was never going to move again. It turned out only two of the big boxes were full of empty containers. The third one just had a couple on the top and the rest was containers full of craft supplies--lol! I piled empties all over the kitchen table, but later had to clear a space for me to be able to use. So, I sent off a stack of cardboard or paper boxes off to recyclables plus a few plastic ones.
(BTW--plan to get rid of all extra empty containers after this final settling in.)
Can now walk around the other side of the table again and get to my "writing" rollie carts.
I had cleared off most of the center table in the studio--but now it is filled with the contents of the third big box from the living room--lol!
How could I not have wondered where my embossing powders or my Misti were! My brain has been on overload--lol!
I haven't mentioned to Leah yet...but I think I may go back to my metal paper shelves. These cardboard paper shelves Leah found on Facebook Marketplace for so cheap...I thought they would be perfect.
But with the lip in front of each slot it is harder to get all the paper out...because the red trays are too small for the 8 1/2" X 11" to lie flat, so I can't use the trays for my cardstock after all...those were the largest trays I could get and just fit. This has caused a lot of mind-wrassling.
I think I want to go back to my big metal paper racks. (The other one is still in that big box next to it.)
We only paid $10 each for the ones from that office, so it's not like I'm out a fortune, or anything. I'm 95% convinced to give them away. Or possibly keep one and give one away. One of those things that you find yourself thinking about as you are trying to fall asleep or as you are waking up--lol!
Anyways, for a few more days I was hauling all the things from the three big boxes around and clearing things off tables...let's just say I overdid it--lol! Could barely walk...neck, shoulders, and arms were also screaming at me. Fibro and arthritis were both angry with me. So I have had a forced vacation for a few days. Am feeling quite a bit better.
In the meantime...Leah has pink eye. So I have been quarantining myself from McFamily. So far, no one else has gotten it in these past few days and Leah is doing better. We might be in the clear. Last thing I want with me finally feeling I am on the mend from the cough again and needing eye surgery--lol!
I am thinking of switching the day I post the blog again. I switched it because Dagan and Leah were helping me on the weekends and were usually down here on Sundays. I used to write the blog on Sundays for posting early Monday mornings. That's why I switched to writing it on Saturdays for early Sunday posting. I think I am going to try switching to writing it on Mondays for early Tuesday posting. The only thing I will have on a Monday will be the eye surgery. All my other appointments have never been on Mondays. It does take me a long time to write a blog post due to needing breaks for various reasons, so I have to write them the day before.
Now that I brought it up...I will post the blog next time--not this coming Tuesday but the Tuesday after that. Let me look it up. Tuesday, November 10th! Tuesdays will be my new blog day. Okay--that's settled.
Really difficult to sneak up on a cat.
I've got little on my mind other than paper racks and the midterm elections, anyways. I seem to be finally getting over the cough/cold so am hopeful I will be able to have surgery later in November. I am about in decent enough shape to continue on with the organizing in here. I will leave you on those positive notes. See you in ten days! Am hopeful for the elections, too. Till then...
