I'm exhausted.

Last night I noticed that several of the flood lights that light up the corners of the house (not a lot of streetlights around here) were out. So I went to the hardware store, got enough lamps to replace ALL of them, dragged out the ladder, and changed out all the bulbs. I got the low-energy kind, thank you very greenly.

Then I decided to get all my scrapbook stuff into one area. At some point, I will purge, consolidate, and organize it better, but for now, it's still in the bins I shipped it all in. But I did clear out the bottom of the closet in the study, and I moved the tables around again, to try to find the best arrangement to set up a scrap area.

Also, this way, the messy desk is hidden from view when people enter the house, and it's no longer the view from the kitchen "window".

I've also been contemplating this house, and how we'd use the space if I turn the "bookroom" into a guest house/rental studio apartment. It's nice to have a "run around in it" room, but we don't really need it. I might rather have the income and or/one of the kids might like the privacy if they live at home during college. Really the only part of the room in actual use is the built-in bookshelves. So I hauled all of our scrapbooks into the living room (where people are much more likely to see them), and put them into the bookcases I have in there, which up til now were empty.

Then it bugged me the lamps were on the floor in there, so I stacked some baskets and made a couple temporary lampstands.

THEN it bugged me that the tv we got for that room is truly too hard to see from the seating; it's too small a screen for that space. So I gave in and moved the tv into my room. IF I decide to put another tv in the living room, it will need to be bigger. And I know, I know. I CANNOT believe those words are coming from me, but I tried to watch a movie in there the other day, and it was too far away to see well.

After I got my desk moved, I realized that the shutters on the kitchen window (previously the outdoor window, but since the addition, a pass-through to the "study") really bugged me. So I took them down. Then I kept going and took down a bi-fold door between the hall and the family room, that made it hard to carry a laundry basket. Gone. Up in the attic!

Now, I'm going to make a cup of tea, sit down, and watch American Idol.

Yes, American Idol.

Can't help it--it's like the scene of an accident. I can't tear my eyes away.