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Oct. 7th, 2012 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicWe're in! Mary, Josh, Chris, and my in-laws are my HEROES. Not everything is moved in, and there's still a lot to do with what is here, but it's livable. We finished laying the floor yesterday and got all the big furniture moved over. We also got about 75% of our stuff here, so my project today is to get what's here organized. Since I had to take Z to the airport this morning, I went to IKEA for some more items that we could use, and spent a few Benjamins there, but got a lot for my money. I do not feel the slightest desire to assemble any of it right now, though, so that project will wait until I have a bit more energy.
So far today I've just been going through all my clothes and trying to organize everything. I have a shameful amount of clothes. I have already gotten rid of everything I can bear to part with. Stuff that's cute, I gave to Katy. Stuff that's not, I took to Goodwill. What's left over is still about 11 boxes' worth of clothes. I decided to separate my closet and dresser space by the type of clothes they are -- work, casual, gym, and other, which is basically dressy-but-not-work (too formal or too slutty). In the casual pile, I have about 300 t-shirts. Not that many really but quite a few. I can't stand the thought of parting with them -- every t-shirt I own is sentimental to me, like my DI shirts from high school or shirts from concerts I loved or whatever. But the thing is...it wouldn't kill me never to wear them again. I just can't get rid of them. So I think I want to make a quilt. Cut them up such that they're still identifiable, but put them together in an awesome mosaic instead of sentencing them to a long and boring life in the bottom of a drawer somewhere. The only problem with this brilliant idea is that I'm clueless at how to do such a thing, and don't own any sewing supplies anyway. So I'm not getting moving on this any time soon, but I do think this is a project I want done eventually. And I probably have enough for several quilts, to be honest. I could arrange them by color scheme or by theme (I could do a whole quilt of Hokie shirts, but actually I do wear all of those and will not be cutting any of them up!). I'm just putting this thought out there in case any of you have experience with such a project and feel like taking it on with me, then that's just aces.
Anyway I should get back to sorting and organizing and maybe even putting more shit together...bleh. This part of moving sucks. But I'm so glad to be here.
So far today I've just been going through all my clothes and trying to organize everything. I have a shameful amount of clothes. I have already gotten rid of everything I can bear to part with. Stuff that's cute, I gave to Katy. Stuff that's not, I took to Goodwill. What's left over is still about 11 boxes' worth of clothes. I decided to separate my closet and dresser space by the type of clothes they are -- work, casual, gym, and other, which is basically dressy-but-not-work (too formal or too slutty). In the casual pile, I have about 300 t-shirts. Not that many really but quite a few. I can't stand the thought of parting with them -- every t-shirt I own is sentimental to me, like my DI shirts from high school or shirts from concerts I loved or whatever. But the thing is...it wouldn't kill me never to wear them again. I just can't get rid of them. So I think I want to make a quilt. Cut them up such that they're still identifiable, but put them together in an awesome mosaic instead of sentencing them to a long and boring life in the bottom of a drawer somewhere. The only problem with this brilliant idea is that I'm clueless at how to do such a thing, and don't own any sewing supplies anyway. So I'm not getting moving on this any time soon, but I do think this is a project I want done eventually. And I probably have enough for several quilts, to be honest. I could arrange them by color scheme or by theme (I could do a whole quilt of Hokie shirts, but actually I do wear all of those and will not be cutting any of them up!). I'm just putting this thought out there in case any of you have experience with such a project and feel like taking it on with me, then that's just aces.
Anyway I should get back to sorting and organizing and maybe even putting more shit together...bleh. This part of moving sucks. But I'm so glad to be here.
