Nesting nesting nesting

[flexagon]

I guess that wasn't all I had in me for nesting yesterday--I got inspired, in a surly way, to listen to that voice saying pah, I'm never going to read that [again], as I was moving some books from one shelf to another. Knowing I don't often feel so vicious, I swept through my bookshelves looking for things I could live without, and found two linear feet worth of the things! Yes, I measured the stack. Then I went galloping off to Goodwill with all of it before I could change my mind. And today, after a little bit of work to add another shelf to the bookshelf, we finally have adequate storage for all of HLM's shoes, and I still have space on 2 bookshelves. *bows to the audience*

Having the parents-in-law visiting for a week is definitely a factor in the "must make home better now" urges I'm getting. HLM has done some work today too, hanging shades in the front living room so that they won't be woken by light coming in and stabbing them when they're sleeping on the foldout couch. And I've put some more finish on the hallway floor. But for all the sawing and polyurethaning and random stuff we've done, probably the most important was sticking a suction-cup clock to our shower tiles. Time has always disappeared for me in there... now it can't. Soon I'll know some really scary statistics on how long it takes me to do things like wash my hair.

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By the way, you inspired me. I threw away these filthy, filthy blankets I was was keeping, because they would take so much effort to clean...it may not sound so bad, but trust me when I spare you the dirty details. It's like those people that always intend to mend things and never do. And I have A LOT of blankets.

It made me feel a little bad though...I hate wasting things.

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I know what you mean... it's always better when you can pass something on rather than actually put it in the trash. But some things are just too nasty (and when a dog owner says nasty, by the way, I believe them implicitly). Sometimes it's better to just walk away.

Glad to have inspired you. :) I was inspired too, by seeing my upstairs neighbor's apartment (SO much fRiLly JUNK!) and then reading the latest issue of Dwell magazine (lovely open modern spaces with no junk). What a contrast.