Feeling Punk

Feeling punk today.
Not this punk

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but this one:

Yesterday, I came down with Mr. dP's cold!

In the morning yesterday I awoke feeling a little off, but not anything to worry.
I promptly started The Great Org of the deposit/study/studio, as Hubby bought the new steel shelves. It was supposed to be one, but as he brought two, I decided to put the studier one, already in the room, into the Chaos Corner #1. Thus, I had to take the two small white steel shelves OUT, that I had just put in there. They weren't doing the job, as too small to hold the dinnerware, etc, that have to be in here till more cupboard-room materializes.

So, that meant talking everything OUT, and into the living room:
1) everything from the white shelves, AND the white shelf-units, + whatever else had already accumulated, hiding in the chaos corner #1
2) everything, and clean dust-of-ages, from sturdy grey shelf-unit in Chaos Corner #3, to living room
3) remove everything along Chaos Wall — from corner 3 to 4 — to be able to get unit OUT, and put units IN
4) clean wall, floor, spiders from CC Wall 3-4
5) Clean Sturdy Grey shelf unit. Move heavy (as good) unit into CC#1, body-shoving the chest of drawers a bit, to get past
6) Bring back stuff and organize on shelves in CC#1
7) reorganize stuff in living room so possible to have lunch, move around, not be buried by avalanche

... and LUNCH!

What, you may ask, is in Chaos Corners # 2 and 4?
#Two: the door, which had stuff hiding behind, but was cleared, cleaned, and only the excersise mats were returned (yea!)
#Four: Aahhh! Well, yours truly, braving galactic-disorder at the shelf-cum-computer-and-artwork-desk. Chaos.

By lunchtime, already feeling crappy & punk.
Hubby and Potts, Honorable Son², came for lunch, and the boys' surprise for their father's birthday arrived!
A HUGE BOX ... with a 42" LCD TV!!!!!

I knew they had said the present would arrive on Tuesday (which I had forgotten) but had no idea of what it would be. Totally unexpected.
Papi Hubby thrilled!

After lunch, with the new member of the family resting in its... its... MANSION, I cleared a space in the "hallway" of living/dining to assemble the new shelves.
Then I saw that the holes are all misalighned... Talk about and El Cheapo! And they weren't cheap!
Today, feeling awful, I still don't know if return them or not. Hubby not too keen. Will ask help of the boys.

Last evening, Good'Ole'TV (with fantastic sound) was removed from its place, and Newbie-LCD installed.
Now, only have to reorganize that wall also!
And pack up oldie, as still goldie, and send to "attic".
I have planned some new units also to be made by the carpenter. But will have to reorganize before they come as the situation not too stable right now — shelves behind the tv: not good!

A Rare Before Photo*

tv, TV, mess, BOX

*Before what? Actually a Now, but before what I'm planning to do to this room!!!
There won't be too many "before" pictures, especially of my cave, er, studio/study, as my self-esteem would be totally mortified!   ... cringe....

Hello here, again!

Ages since last blogging!

But then, doing quite a bit of New Year organizing&cleaning.
So much so that I was hors de combat for two weeks due to left arm&shoulder aching @##$%!! After 3 sessions of healing (chiropractic, deep shiatsu, and massage&energy), today I finally got back to shoving shelving and boxes around.

This week I was able to do compwork, reviewing my cad projects of the closets (wardrobes/brit) that I do hope we'll be able to have made this year. Last year due to the financial/economic crisis, these plans had to be set aside.

Also, hassling and getting hasled by Firefox, as IE6 has a death warrant on it, and doesn't work with Youtube anymore! So, working with both. (Shall getting a later version of IE... this week, I hope)

Finally took down my "blog-tree" or rather, my Christmas background, here at blog-corner. My "real" tree and decorations I amazingly got down on the right day! This, by tradition, is Jan 6th, the "Reis Magos" Day, Dia de Reis - will find translation and add later.*

Sometime soon, I have to review and upload the "posts" I did offline: Christmas ones plus. I just discovered a cool function: I can "back-date" the post, so they should appear on the day I wrote each! We-e-e-elll, I think that's how it works!

* Hmmnnnn, weelll, that would be the day the "We three Kings of Orient are..", of the Christmas carol, and Bible, arrived to visit baby Jesus, and bestow on him some frankincense, myrrh and gold. Also called the Three Kings, the Three Wise Men and Kings, or Kings from the East.
Ok, ok... the last I got from Wiki:

In Christian tradition, the Magi (pronounced /ˈmeɪdʒaɪ/; Greek: μάγοι, magoi), also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men, (Three) Kings, or Kings from the East, are a group of distinguished foreigners who are said to have visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense. They are regular figures in traditional accounts of the nativity and in celebrations of Christmas.

Here in Brasil on this day, in the areas where folk traditions are still observed, you have groups that visit the households, the Folia de Reis, with their typical and traditional songs and instrumental accompaniment.

**Aaahhhhhh! Here it is: "Epiphany"!!!

Shakespeare's Tide

Today, "at home".

Early today, went to the lab to take out blood for exams.
As of the forties (my forties, that is), high anxiety while "The Search for the Vein" goes on; then an almost unbearable tension while awaiting The Needle!
Which, when it happens, all comes down the reality:
it doesn't hurt much, and what was the fuss all about?
How tiring!

Then, back at home, clearing out The Box in the Stairwell...
There, waiting patiently, only since the move — what, nearly a year ago? — for it to be done.

As I'm in a clearing and cleaning phase, best use Shakespeares's tide, so, besides the Stairwell, I'm also emptying The Box in the Corridor!!!

It has stuff from my "office" drawers... an absolute terror... dreadful!
I've tried to tackle this sinister, as my young nephew Christopher would say, petainer, several times but was totally daunted by The Contents.
Writing paper, stationery sets, loose envelopes, bits of paper That Will Be Useful Someday... and those terrible Little Odds'n'Ends, that are impossible to throw out!!!

I definitely would be a flunk-out of those Just-Throw-Your-Precious-Stuff Out courses!

The Attic

Got home and had lunch...

Ufaaaaa!

This morning I continued with the pharaonic undertaking of creating a space with my atelier things; organizing, cleaning and then throwing out, the trillions of boxes and things that are in the 3rd-floor deposit, put there on the move from the big apt to the teeny  one.
Doing domestic arqueology, unearthing the precious relics!!!

Tomorrow if there are no contretemps, I hope to go at it all day...
Who knows, mayhaps the box with the files from the top drawer of my file cabinet will arise from the box-ocean — I do need some files from that drawer!
Up until now, I have found the boxes with the middle-drawer files, and today, the bottom drawer's! I think the mover's evil genie is playing with me!!!