Unfucking my home environment FTW!
So, since I last posted three weeks ago, I have cleaned my kitchen, living room, and bathroom. I have assembled: the new Ikea cart I mentioned in that post; a DVD shelving unit that had been in my possession, still in its shipping box, since 2011; and, newly ordered, a bookcase and an entryway bench/coatrack stand thingamajig. That last one was made much more enjoyable today by the fact that I managed first to set up my new TV antenna, attached to the still-shiny-and-new-to-me-because-it's-been-sitting-around-in-its-original-box-since-March flatscreen TV I bought so 
heresluck and I could marathon Farscape in comfort when I visited her in the Twin Cities. See! I knew I needed a new TV that was not big and boxy and from 2004. In an attempt to be super frugal, I did first try to connect the new antenna to use with the old TV via my DVD recorder (to see if it would act as a digital-to-analog converter device, but it may also be too old). Anyway, once I switched the antenna over to connect directly to the new TV, everything was easy-peasy, and I get a couple dozen channels. I have not fully explored them yet, as I was only interested in finding some Sunday afternoon (and then evening) football games to semi-follow while I cleared out the spot just inside the front door of my apartment so I could assemble and set up the entryway bench & coatrack stand thing. And I laid down the area rug I ordered to go under it, and now the former floor pile jumble of coats and cardigans and bags is an orderly space, with a coat and a cardigan and a hangable bag or two up on the hooks, and my work backpack (and a largish plastic bag of things I need to remember to take to work tomorrow) sitting on the bench part. And I am well pleased. And I filled one of my new laundry hampers with cardigans to wash on Thursday. :D
Thursday is my next day off from work, and my intention, in addition to doing laundry, is to assemble the new metal rolly cart that is going to help me organize the computer desk area in my kitchen. I am hoping to put my laser printer on the bottom shelf and my new scanner* on the top shelf and to use the middle shelf as a place to put office supplies and spindles of blank DVDs and such. (Srsly, all the cleaning and re-organizing led to the re-discovery and accumulation of myriad pens and markers, all the pairs of scissors I can remember buying as an adult (5 or 6 pairs), and two convenient cups/mugs to hold them all--a nice, sturdy black mug to hold the markers and scissors (those are seriously a lot of scissors, man) and a tall plastic cup (to hold the pens and pencils) that is one of the few remaining kitchen heirlooms from my great-grandparents' house that I have not ruined and gotten rid of.
*Speaking of my new scanner, I managed to avert a near disaster with its delivery. The estimated delivery date for it was listed as 9/17, so I was just biding my time...but last week something made me decide to check its status--and good thing I did, because I learned that the package had been delivered two days earlier...and left at the front door. Note: I live in the upper unit of a duplex, and I do not have a front door. The downstairs apartment has a front door, but the mailbox and door buzzers for both units are located at the side door. Must've been a new or substitute UPS driver that day, because UPS, FedEx, etc. always use the side door, in deference to the mailbox and doorbell locations, I assume. Even the downstairs neighbors rarely use the front door, because they also have access to the side entrance, which is closer to the garage. Anyway, my scanner box had been sitting out *in the rain* for a day and a half before I rescued it. The glossy cardboard box was soaked through, but the contents look fine.
I want to get the cart together and the scanner set up on Thursday so I can do another round of #tbt photo posts on facebook. I had such fun with my first ever #tbt post on my Thursday off a week and a half ago. And just today, while crawling around behind the TV cart doing antenna stuff, I found the small box of old family photos and memorabilia that I wanted but could not find on that Thursday.
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heresluck and I could marathon Farscape in comfort when I visited her in the Twin Cities. See! I knew I needed a new TV that was not big and boxy and from 2004. In an attempt to be super frugal, I did first try to connect the new antenna to use with the old TV via my DVD recorder (to see if it would act as a digital-to-analog converter device, but it may also be too old). Anyway, once I switched the antenna over to connect directly to the new TV, everything was easy-peasy, and I get a couple dozen channels. I have not fully explored them yet, as I was only interested in finding some Sunday afternoon (and then evening) football games to semi-follow while I cleared out the spot just inside the front door of my apartment so I could assemble and set up the entryway bench & coatrack stand thing. And I laid down the area rug I ordered to go under it, and now the former floor pile jumble of coats and cardigans and bags is an orderly space, with a coat and a cardigan and a hangable bag or two up on the hooks, and my work backpack (and a largish plastic bag of things I need to remember to take to work tomorrow) sitting on the bench part. And I am well pleased. And I filled one of my new laundry hampers with cardigans to wash on Thursday. :D
Thursday is my next day off from work, and my intention, in addition to doing laundry, is to assemble the new metal rolly cart that is going to help me organize the computer desk area in my kitchen. I am hoping to put my laser printer on the bottom shelf and my new scanner* on the top shelf and to use the middle shelf as a place to put office supplies and spindles of blank DVDs and such. (Srsly, all the cleaning and re-organizing led to the re-discovery and accumulation of myriad pens and markers, all the pairs of scissors I can remember buying as an adult (5 or 6 pairs), and two convenient cups/mugs to hold them all--a nice, sturdy black mug to hold the markers and scissors (those are seriously a lot of scissors, man) and a tall plastic cup (to hold the pens and pencils) that is one of the few remaining kitchen heirlooms from my great-grandparents' house that I have not ruined and gotten rid of.
*Speaking of my new scanner, I managed to avert a near disaster with its delivery. The estimated delivery date for it was listed as 9/17, so I was just biding my time...but last week something made me decide to check its status--and good thing I did, because I learned that the package had been delivered two days earlier...and left at the front door. Note: I live in the upper unit of a duplex, and I do not have a front door. The downstairs apartment has a front door, but the mailbox and door buzzers for both units are located at the side door. Must've been a new or substitute UPS driver that day, because UPS, FedEx, etc. always use the side door, in deference to the mailbox and doorbell locations, I assume. Even the downstairs neighbors rarely use the front door, because they also have access to the side entrance, which is closer to the garage. Anyway, my scanner box had been sitting out *in the rain* for a day and a half before I rescued it. The glossy cardboard box was soaked through, but the contents look fine.
I want to get the cart together and the scanner set up on Thursday so I can do another round of #tbt photo posts on facebook. I had such fun with my first ever #tbt post on my Thursday off a week and a half ago. And just today, while crawling around behind the TV cart doing antenna stuff, I found the small box of old family photos and memorabilia that I wanted but could not find on that Thursday.
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