I'll Fix Your Feng Shui

Yesterday, Holly and I decided that it was about time that our little apartment had a bit of a face-lift to give it some new life. We were getting kind of tired with the way that the furniture was arranged and things, so we spent the time when we were not at work moving all sorts of things around. I love to rearrange my furniture on a regular basis because otherwise I start to feel like everything is beginning to go stagnant.

Now that we are finished we just have to save up some money to get the two chairs that we want to complete the living room the way that we want it. We have been struggling since we moved in to have enough seating for everyone when they come over for things like American Idol or to watch movies. Most of the time everyone winds up sitting on the floor which is not the most comfortable of places to sit seeing as how it feels like sitting on concrete with a thin layer of paper over the top. There is a lot more space in the living room with how the furniture is now put and we spent a LONG time yesterday sorting through old boxes and files and corners to find things we could either give away to DI, or that could just be thrown away. I think in the end we filled up four or five trash bags worth of trash and two more worth of things to go to DI.

The best thing about the entire project was that we had some fun while doing it and got a lot more done that we thought we would. It also eases my mind to know that a large portion of the things that were bothering me because they didn't get sorted through when we moved in are now taken care of. I would also be remiss if I didn't mention that I am a much bigger fan of my office now than I was before this project was undertaken. Now things are in the right places and the stuffed animals and Elvis memorabilia are all together instead of in four different buckets scattered throughout the closets.

Playing the Discombobulated Game

I like it when my life is caught up and in focus which is the state it remains in 9 days out of 10, but when I get to that day (like today) where I feel like I have hundreds of little five-minute projects that need to be finished before going to bed and that I have very little time to do them in it begins to feel like I am trapped in some kind of a challenge or game. Granted, the challenge is called life, but sometimes I still don't think it is very fair, or at the very least it is sometimes quite inconvienient.

To be completely honest, I don't really have very many things to do today, but I think that deep down inside maybe I wish I had tons of things to do today. I was telling Holly a couple days ago that I am starting to get bored on some afternoons when I'm finished with my homework and she is at work. Although, that should change in a week or so once mid-terms get up and running and I switch to my new afternoon job. Maybe I will make some flashcards for my German 101 class or something this afternoon. I guess that would give me something to do.

I've been keeping track of the number of pages that I've read for 2007 alone and the total has reached 1,124 and I'm not even finished with the first month. Next on the agenda is Catch-22 which I think counts towards my goal of reading 3 classic novels this year.