Shelves! and other blabber
In the past few weeks, Ben and I have taken a combined three trips to the new IKEA in the Southern Suburbia of Salt Lake City. We were overwhelmed the first time we went there (and someone was a little cranky about being there at all, but I'm not going to name names), but wrote down a lot of product numbers and went home to think about it. It was such a refreshing change of scenery than the standard furniture stores (boring, expensive, mostly not our style) and Target selections. It was even cool to see alternative stuff to Bed Bath and Beyond (though I'm still not sick of their selections, since I bring a little home with me each time I go.... 20% off at a time with the frequent coupons).
I ended up choosing this (desperately needed) shelving unit for my office:
So today I cleaned up my office a little and made space to assemble the almost-five-feet-tall-and-wide unit. Well, it wasn't quite enough space with the current placement of my desk. But Ben helped and everything turned out well. I then spent a good chunk of time sorting through the piles of crap laying around the room and feeling giddy with delight while organizing. I think I got lazy on my OCD, so just organizing now makes my adrenaline rush. Nice.
Meanwhile, Ben has been downstairs in the semi-finished portion of the basement fixing MORE idiot wiring in the house. This time, we decided to move the TV to the wall where there is a light switch, and then remembered that the outlet there was actually connected to the light switch that also controls the overhead lights.
So he fixed that with only one trip to Home Depot. He also reported that the wiring scenario behind the light switch was not up to code and he fixed that too, whatever the problem was. All I know is that he had wire clippers and pliers and said at one point, "I'm going to turn the power back on now in the basement. If you hear screaming, please take me to the emergency room."
I guess he felt he had to say that, considering last week when I was not interested in taking him to the emergency room, even if he needed it.
We've been very busy and handy around the house today. And no injuries so far. I also put together some accessory drawers for my new shelves (kind of a pain to put together, but they look really nice and I sure do like drawers). Ben also made a screen (from scratch!) for our basement family room window. He's kicking himself for not doing it a year ago, considering how easy it was to do. Oh well. Now we can have some fresh air down there and not risk losing our kitties to the big, bad world. Or letting any mosquitos inside that are infected with the West Nile virus. Not that there's any water in the area!
I really think that I'm incapable of writing short posts. Is all of what I said important? Probably not, but bandwidth is not an issue for me, so.... I guess it stays.
