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Oh, the pain, the pain
Jan. 3rd, 2025 12:42 pmI slept wrong. Actually, what I think might have happened was, I didn't move all night. This morning I'm sore and stiff and I can't find my heating pad. I do, however, know where the IcyHot patches are and I'm going to use up about half a dozen.
I have most definitely hit an unpacking plateau. I can't summon the spoons to even consolidate another box, even though I can think of two separate candidates without even trying. This is not great, because I really do want to set up the living room chairs with the throw pillows and soft blankets and cat beds so the cats have soft places to sit other than the bed (which, honestly, is probably where they'd spend the bulk of their time anyway.) I especially want to get the domed beds up off the floor, because I think they'd made spectacular actual beds now that it's winter and it's fricking freezing at night. There's the one up on the highest shelf in the makeup room, and Merry usually commandeers that one.
I still have a cat tower to assemble. It's just over 5 feet tall with a sturdy base and two boxes, a sling, and 3 platforms with padded ledges. I don't kid myself that all four would be able to be on there at the same time harmoniously, but if Merry and Pippin grab that one, it leaves the one set-up not-on-the-floor Dome for Ari to curl up in.
The downstairs is open-concept, and I'd love to put an open shelving unit in the middle as a room divider-cum-storage because I can always use more storage space. I've found what I want at Ikea, but (of course) the color that I want is sold out online. I don't feel like schlepping 300+ km to the one store that has it in stock, so...I'll wait a bit more and see when/if my desired color comes back in stock. (Dammit.) I don't know if it would make the room look smaller or not, but I could definitely use the extra storage. I've already filled all six of my bookshelves, and one does not stop buying books simply because one has run out of bookshelf space.
I have most definitely hit an unpacking plateau. I can't summon the spoons to even consolidate another box, even though I can think of two separate candidates without even trying. This is not great, because I really do want to set up the living room chairs with the throw pillows and soft blankets and cat beds so the cats have soft places to sit other than the bed (which, honestly, is probably where they'd spend the bulk of their time anyway.) I especially want to get the domed beds up off the floor, because I think they'd made spectacular actual beds now that it's winter and it's fricking freezing at night. There's the one up on the highest shelf in the makeup room, and Merry usually commandeers that one.
I still have a cat tower to assemble. It's just over 5 feet tall with a sturdy base and two boxes, a sling, and 3 platforms with padded ledges. I don't kid myself that all four would be able to be on there at the same time harmoniously, but if Merry and Pippin grab that one, it leaves the one set-up not-on-the-floor Dome for Ari to curl up in.
The downstairs is open-concept, and I'd love to put an open shelving unit in the middle as a room divider-cum-storage because I can always use more storage space. I've found what I want at Ikea, but (of course) the color that I want is sold out online. I don't feel like schlepping 300+ km to the one store that has it in stock, so...I'll wait a bit more and see when/if my desired color comes back in stock. (Dammit.) I don't know if it would make the room look smaller or not, but I could definitely use the extra storage. I've already filled all six of my bookshelves, and one does not stop buying books simply because one has run out of bookshelf space.
