man nobody's online today huh?
Dec. 29th, 2009 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Oof.
Instead of sewing today, I spent several hours cleaning in the basement. I had cleaned half the basement, precisely, and there was a clear line demarcating where the good part ended and the junk began. But the junk was starting to seep back across that line and encroach, so I set to work on a pile of junk in the heart of junk-land, eradicating a nucleus of disorganization: several boxes and things stacked against the wall that date from our first moments in this house, things that have never been touched, and even some things that predate our tenure in this house. Primordial junk, if you will. I hauled things away from that back wall and discovered... a huge particle-board L-shaped countertop, about 7'3" by 24", with a 4-foot L part. It's enormous. And it has to weigh a good 75 pounds; it took everything I had to swing it around 90 degrees to move it into where I'd like to set it up.
And then I looked, and discovered the legs for it. Two legs, long wall-like sections that go the full width of it to support it.
But there are only two. Did I mention it's an L shape? There needs to be something at the back, there. And I can't find anything. If there was a piece, it's gone missing in the years since the counter/desk/bar thing was put there. (It's about 28" high, so, more desk than counter, I think.) It's well-made, but obviously made by someone, not manufactured in a factory. Nicely finished, but, weird. And there are some strips of wood that look like they're braces to keep it from sagging under its own weight. It fits perfectly into a blank bit of basement corner, but... I need to figure out the third leg. Unfortunately neither Z nor I are the slightest bit handy. :/
Anyway. I got a lot done, and also got quite a workout hauling boxes and that thing around. I was procrastinating, see; I had to shovel the driveway and walk, and didn't want to. Around 2 I finally went out and did, and Z joined me because he was procrastinating too. So that was fun; we didn't build a snow-fort, which I'd planned to do, but we might later. His birthday is Thursday, which I have off, and he has asked if we can either go sledding or skating that day. So we will. And I'm going to try to get a snow-fort built then.
The basement doesn't look any better, but it is. I'm slowly starting to put things away. It's all organized with different shelves and dressers and things, but none of the shelves have anything on them; all my fabric and notions and patterns are in little piles on various surfaces, waiting for an organizational system. That's almost always my downfall: organization.
I also scored a whole box full of three-ring binders from a coworker with, I admit, a bit of a hoarding problem. I don't wish to emulate him, but, I keep seeing things I have a use in mind for, and sometimes it's a nebulous use, and then I get the thing in question, and forget what the use was, and so I wind up with all sorts of vaguely "useful"-seeming things, that I really intended to... do... something with, and now I have this... pile... and I can't... Yeah, it's a slippery slope. And these binders-- they're perfectly-sized to fit on one of the shelves I have, and in them, I can organize all the notes I take, and things I print off the Internet, and patterns I make, and instead of having stacks of loose paper, I can put them in there!
I just have to do that. And so meanwhile I have these binders. At least they're on the shelf, and not just sitting in a pile. Like the sheaves and sheaves of papers. Eck. In boxes and stacks all over the attic and... Enough of thinking of that, just now! I'll get to it and fix it, I promise. Little by little.
No sewing done, though, and I have an imminent deadline, since one of the things I still have to sew is destined for a sister, the littlest (age-wise) one, who is visiting on her way back to Illinois from Albany, on the 1st. This will be the only holiday-proximal sister-to-sister contact anyone in our family has this year, so we're prepared to enjoy it, though it'll only be like 12 hours.
OK Z made dinner; off I go. Enough chatter. Mmmmm leftover-o-rama!!
Instead of sewing today, I spent several hours cleaning in the basement. I had cleaned half the basement, precisely, and there was a clear line demarcating where the good part ended and the junk began. But the junk was starting to seep back across that line and encroach, so I set to work on a pile of junk in the heart of junk-land, eradicating a nucleus of disorganization: several boxes and things stacked against the wall that date from our first moments in this house, things that have never been touched, and even some things that predate our tenure in this house. Primordial junk, if you will. I hauled things away from that back wall and discovered... a huge particle-board L-shaped countertop, about 7'3" by 24", with a 4-foot L part. It's enormous. And it has to weigh a good 75 pounds; it took everything I had to swing it around 90 degrees to move it into where I'd like to set it up.
And then I looked, and discovered the legs for it. Two legs, long wall-like sections that go the full width of it to support it.
But there are only two. Did I mention it's an L shape? There needs to be something at the back, there. And I can't find anything. If there was a piece, it's gone missing in the years since the counter/desk/bar thing was put there. (It's about 28" high, so, more desk than counter, I think.) It's well-made, but obviously made by someone, not manufactured in a factory. Nicely finished, but, weird. And there are some strips of wood that look like they're braces to keep it from sagging under its own weight. It fits perfectly into a blank bit of basement corner, but... I need to figure out the third leg. Unfortunately neither Z nor I are the slightest bit handy. :/
Anyway. I got a lot done, and also got quite a workout hauling boxes and that thing around. I was procrastinating, see; I had to shovel the driveway and walk, and didn't want to. Around 2 I finally went out and did, and Z joined me because he was procrastinating too. So that was fun; we didn't build a snow-fort, which I'd planned to do, but we might later. His birthday is Thursday, which I have off, and he has asked if we can either go sledding or skating that day. So we will. And I'm going to try to get a snow-fort built then.
The basement doesn't look any better, but it is. I'm slowly starting to put things away. It's all organized with different shelves and dressers and things, but none of the shelves have anything on them; all my fabric and notions and patterns are in little piles on various surfaces, waiting for an organizational system. That's almost always my downfall: organization.
I also scored a whole box full of three-ring binders from a coworker with, I admit, a bit of a hoarding problem. I don't wish to emulate him, but, I keep seeing things I have a use in mind for, and sometimes it's a nebulous use, and then I get the thing in question, and forget what the use was, and so I wind up with all sorts of vaguely "useful"-seeming things, that I really intended to... do... something with, and now I have this... pile... and I can't... Yeah, it's a slippery slope. And these binders-- they're perfectly-sized to fit on one of the shelves I have, and in them, I can organize all the notes I take, and things I print off the Internet, and patterns I make, and instead of having stacks of loose paper, I can put them in there!
I just have to do that. And so meanwhile I have these binders. At least they're on the shelf, and not just sitting in a pile. Like the sheaves and sheaves of papers. Eck. In boxes and stacks all over the attic and... Enough of thinking of that, just now! I'll get to it and fix it, I promise. Little by little.
No sewing done, though, and I have an imminent deadline, since one of the things I still have to sew is destined for a sister, the littlest (age-wise) one, who is visiting on her way back to Illinois from Albany, on the 1st. This will be the only holiday-proximal sister-to-sister contact anyone in our family has this year, so we're prepared to enjoy it, though it'll only be like 12 hours.
OK Z made dinner; off I go. Enough chatter. Mmmmm leftover-o-rama!!
