Instead, I did some obsessive organising. For some reason, there is nothing more comforting for me than picky, inconsequential organising.
For example, we went out an bought a real DVD/VHS shelf, so that I could use this bookcase...
...for real books. And so that I could have a shelf where I wouldn't have to have movies in front of movies:
It also gave me the fun challenge of re-organising my movies. My DVDs are still organised by genre, but I was bold (and made a decision that will be controversial to two out of three of the May-B/Ky/Lynniec triumvirate) and organised my VHSs by colour. The only problem with this shelf is that the shelves don't fit my tall kids' movies, and so they're in a pretty basket on my china shelf.
While we were at Linens 'n Things, we also found pretty wedding photo albums for half price! Look at how pretty they are:
And they're my ideal kind of photo albums -- they just get everything organised, with room for me to label them. I took the 500 photos from our wedding and reception and put them in these albums. Now they're not stored away in envelopes and I can re-live my wedding whenever I want:
I still have to go out and find a scrapbook-style album for storing our portraits, and also print off all our portraits. (They're stored on CDs.)
And that's what I've been up to. Today, I went through those albums and started labelling them. I need Chris's help for the pictures of his family members, but soon people will be able to flip through our wedding albums without us talking them through.
And the moral of this story: if the Queen of West Procrastination is cranky and has a headache, give her some busy work that involves having ultimate control over a tiny project. This brings her great joy.
12 comments:
Maryanne, I shake my fist at your organizing by colour. Ky's right. How often do you say "I feel like watching a blue movie today?"
You want tiny projects? I will send you my origami. It doesn't get tinier than that.
I love the idea of organizing by colour!
Hope your head is feeling a lot better now. :)
Hurrah Pink Cupcake!!
You must have worked in retail at one point in your life. I think only people that have worked in retail (and those blessed with a true eye for all things lovely) understand the organization by colour.
Note for Bron: How often do you say "I feel like watching a T movie today"?
I think the color organizational scheme is perfectly reasonable. Now will you come organize my stuff?
No NO NO NONONOONONONONO No colour organzing of videos. COME ON. It's either by genre or by alphabetical. Do NOT make me come to each one of your homes and fix it. I will do it. My brain is going to implode.
PS. Mary, we watched Proof last night and all I could think was "Could they stop talking about MATH??"
I have to disagree with alphabetical, too. Personally, I like to go by genre and year. Because very often, I will say to myself, "I feel like watching a 1940s musical" or "I wanna watch a 90s college or highschool melodrama." You know?
Also, Maryanne, I loved Proof. I even felt that there was just the right amount of math. (But it wouldn't have hurted if they'd had a little bit more, either.)
Now, I must hear what you thought of Shopgirl! Instantly!
And May-B, you stay away from all of our movie collections. Although I'd love it if you flew to England, showed up at Pink Cupcake's house, and announced, "I'm rearranging your movies! Hi, I'm May-B, by the way."
So, I'm watching Shopgirl now, and it's almost done, and my main impression is that Steve Martin wrote it all as an excuse to see Claire Daines naked. It was very Steve Martin congratulating himself on being Steve Martin.
But I still think that Jason Schwartzman is supercool.
I watched it with Ky. For awhile. And then I had a nap. The nap was good. The movie? Not as much.
LOL! If someone shows up to rearrange my movie collection, I'll just assume it's one of your friends or relatives. ;)
Truely, because what kind of buglar enters just to re-organize?
Pink, I promise when I do get to England, I will restrain myself.
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