Monday, December 4, 2023

Xmas Camp, and Rearranging...

UPDATE: The opening of Christmas Camp under the Boston fern was deemed waaay more important than rearranging the apartment. 
Campers are starting to arrive!
They’re all going to need warmer clothes…

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Definitely I need & want to spend more of my energy on life OUTSIDE of work. Yesterday I tore apart half my apartment to move one of my bookshelves. And now I must put it all back together again.

Am I dawdling?
I am not.
(I am.)

These pictures don't capture how messy it is!
But--happy
in its new place, the massive Boston fern now has its own spot in the corner where the bookcase was. A Christmas tree skirt will go around its base, and the girlettes will set up Xmas Camp there!

BELOW: I'm putting the bookshelf (plus bins of art & sewing supplies) along my bed-room wall.
It's the one wall shared--naked--with the neighboring apartment. (Kitchen and bathroom cupboards line the other shared walls.)

My neighbor is very quiet, and so am I, but with my bed against the wall--the most logical space for it--I'd always felt aware that someone was sleeping on the other side of the wall,
so I'm finally putting non-bed furniture against that wall, and moving my bed to the floor...


When you tear your place up, it's not a matter of putting everything back the way it was, right? It's a chance, if you want, to look at every single thing and think, Do I want this? And, Where is the best place for this?
I am doing that.
No rush--as long as it's done in two weeks, before some old friends are coming over for holiday ginger cake (ginger cake!).