M. Suzanne Terry

This week, I thought for sure that my CD collection was going to be the death of me.

There it is, hiding behind pictures in those orange boxes and in the nice, sleek black boxes.  It looks so small and innocent.

But oh, the humanity!

First, it took two hours – two! – just to alphabetize them.  I sat on my hard floor for two and a half episodes of Buffy. When I got up, my knee did that old-woman crack thing.  I’m pretty sure that’s why my knee was puffy and numb for the next few days.

Then my puffy knee and I went traipsing all about Denton looking for three more boxes to house the CD collection and give it some room to grow.  Easy, right?  No big deal.  Just go to the store and get boxes.

*blinks*

An epic quest featuring Target, Anna’s Linens, every thrift store in town, every dollar store and variations thereof in town, Tuesday Morning, Hobby Lobby, Big Lots, and Bed, Bath, and Beyond ended in failure.  Yes, even Hobby Lobby – the land of ten thousand boxes – was a disappointment. Every box that was short enough was too wide for the shelf.  Every box that was thin enough was too short for the shelf. The one box  – ONE! – that I found that fit my size parameters was made of wood, had a weird glass top that would have made placing anything on top of it impossible, and cost $30.  No, thank you. Apparently, people don’t like to put CDs in boxes and cover them with a lid, because no store in town sells such a thing.  To me, covering them up with a lid seems like the whole point of putting them in a box to begin with, but I am clearly in the minority.

This quest took three and a half hours.  Puffy knee was not amused.

I came home and found exactly what I needed on Amazon.  At that moment, I didn’t care about Amazon allegedly ruining the publishing industry (I tried to find an article to share with you just now that explains what I mean by that, but I’m just too tired from organizing all those damn CDs to deal with other people’s rants.  I encourage you to Google it, though. And do try to shop locally.  /public service announcement). I immediately ordered three of those bad boys.  I ordered them Friday evening, and I received them today.  It took two minutes, and it saved me from having to take a trip to IKEA (where I bought the orange ones), a trip which would have inevitably happened during rush hour or – worse – on a Saturday, after which I cannot promise that I would not have committed a terrible crime if said trip ended up being fruitless, too.  Amazon saves lives, y’all.

Trying to organize CDs took up almost all the time I had for the entryway this week.  Trying to organize CDs is the reason that I did not get the following things done:

• Organizing inbox/outbox
• Putting up pictures by the mirror
• Fixing the door/arranging a time to have door fixed
• Finding a non-trashy way to block the breeze where the sad door falls short
• Washing the carpet dots
• Mounting the coat rack
• Decluttering the under-table area
• Buying an cabinet for bar supplies
• Deep-cleaning the floorboards and moving furniture to vacuum under/behind it

I’m going to try to incorporate some of these tasks in the weeks ahead if I finish those weeks early.  So I am not giving up on those tasks.

But let’s not focus on that.  Let’s focus on what I DID get done:

• Took out the trash instead of piling it by the door
• Put the crock pot up where it belongs
• Moved the random rod from the corner by the door and move the mirrored name thing from the corner between the entry table and the shelf

• Cleared off the entryway table a little.  Took things back to the library.
• Reorganized the shelf, which included putting all the DVDs and videos in the cabinet under the television, finding a shelf to make the espresso cup display multi-level (and super cute), adding fresh flowers and the random jars of wine corks I have hanging around, moving some of the things from the writing nook shelf so that there’s more room for books there…
• AND I ORGANIZED THE CD COLLECTION.

All in all, it was a somewhat successful (albeit frustrating) week.

Tomorrow will bring the introductory post for the kitchen.  Lord, have mercy.