Unpacking

Let me share how things are going today with unpacking.

Here is how I unpack - take EVERYTHING out of boxes and put in on the floor.

I start sorting, and sorting, and sorting. I decide I need labels for some things so I get on the computer to make labels and get distracted by email, facebook, and news. I finally remember what I was doing and make the labels.

Move a pile from one place to another... get up to find scissors... forget what I am doing and get a snack.... Come back. Sort. Sort. Sort. I think I need music. Get on the computer... YOUTUBE! Oh, I haven't heard that song in a while... oh, that's another good one....

Back to the mess I made. Keep sorting. Oh, look! Cute banner. I think I will put it up in the kitchen, NOW. Go to find hooks to put up the banner. Decide to write a blog entry and go get camera to take pictures of the mess. Take a picture.

Go get ladder to put up the hooks in the kitchen. See some garbage on the counter... throw it away. See that the counters need to be cleaned. Clean the counters.

Get up on the ladder and put up the banner. Decide to take picture but can't find the camera... Seriously, where did it go - the apartment isn't THAT big.... Find it on the couch (I don't know how it got there, I haven't been on the couch since breakfast). Take a picture.

Back to the mess... hmmmm..... I see the dishes from breakfast STILL haven't been taken back to the kitchen. Pick them up and take them to the kitchen but the ladder is still in the way. Down with the dishes, out with the ladder, dishes in the sink.

Start working on a blog post. Oh! I think I see another project I can easily finish... Putting together storage boxes. Start assembling... wander off, come back and continue working. Go to find CDs and DVD to put in the storage boxes. While I am at it, I will grab all the books in the bedroom and bring them out to put in the shelf.

Come back with the book and DVDs and put them on their shelves or in their boxes and continue to write the blog entry. Decide the storage boxes need labels.... Make the labels.

I need to make a phone call. Send an email. Then, back to the mess...... the unpacking continues.... The finished product for today? A book shelf.