The Great Re-Org of 2007

No big news lately -- 30 weeks and change, baby several times a day having a regular Dance Party USA with its bad self, another routine prenatal appointment scheduled for this Friday -- so I'll just take a second to update y'all on the preparations we've made in the house for Kid A's arrival.

A couple of weeks ago, pretty much from sunup to sundown, we spend the entire weekend on moving-level activity in every room of the house but the kitchen, and here's the highlights, in R.'s words [with my additions in brackets]:

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Unloaded all of the books and moved the two seven-foot bookcases from the guest room to our bedroom and reloaded them with books. Earthquake-strapped the bookshelves to the wall. Moved our clothes dresser from one corner to the other and completely de-molded the thing from inside and out. Moved the old blue loveseat from the computer room out to the trash on the street. Unloaded the desk of all the computers, books, and crap. Threw out old 1997 bank statements and trash from the desk [this took me most of Saturday]. Dismantled the entire desk to get it out of the middle room [which will now be Kid A's room]. Moved it to the guest room. Reassembled the desk and loaded the computers and monitors and wiring and books and crap back into the desk. Moved the futon to the other side of the room [against the bathroom-side wall]. Boxed up two boxes of Videotapes we never play and put them out in the garage. Moved all of the amps and guitars to the guest room [R. will be putting up wall mounts for the guitars]. Took down all of the photos in the guest room. Tore down the broken blinds in the computer room and installed new ones that are actually flush inside the window frame [AND R. actually made and installed a screen to fit that previously-screenless window]. Vacuumed everything [including the cobwebs on the baseboards]. Made two trips to Home Depot. Wrapped things up enough to grill up a piece of Halibut on Sunday night. So we basically moved out and back into our house in a weekend.

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The computer room, which was completely empty after all of that activity, now holds the beautiful crib Aunt A. & Uncle P. handed down to us -- we spent a morning the next weekend cleaning and re-assembling it -- so we're getting ever closer to a state of household readiness. Now, to go buy a second car so I won't be stranded at home with a baby and no transpo ...