Flatmageddon!
Jun. 24th, 2011 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianPlanning for Flatmageddon continues. Well, sort of, anyhow. I bought a bookshelf. I suppose it's £30 well spent, but I'm really hoping that when the Argos website says 'anywhere between 7am and 3pm' for delivery of the bloody thing, they mean the later end of that spectrum. I really don't want to have to wake up at 7am to collect a freakin' bookshelf. Still, at least I could get the thing delivered on Saturday, which is a bonus. This means I can hopefully have it put together and in place by the time the man-with-van turns up. Then I can decide which books go in the nice bookshelf (probably the ones I actually read) and which get stashed elsewhere.
Then I get to decide on the 'elsewhere'. I was looking over the flat last night and thinking about alternate storage space. There are a few options, particularly when talking about things I don't use very often. The kitchen cabinets, for example, are not flush against the ceiling, so I could conceivably store some things that I don't use regularly on top of that - it involves standing on a chair to get to it, but hey, as long as it's nothing overly heavy, I suppose... I've got a couple of boxes taking up floor space and those can probably go. I still need to track myself down a DVD rack, but I'll have a hunt-around at lunchtime and see what I can find. That'll free up most of the top shelf of my current bookshelf, which I can then hopefully use as workspace. There will be more furniture shifting when I get home. Maybe I can take off early today. Gods have mercy, I know things are going to look better and everything once I have this all sorted out but it's just looking incredibly daunting right now.
Still, there is some good news. My first lot of essential oils are turning up sometime in the next couple of days! (Wouldn't it be a hoot if my bookshelf, my oils and my man-in-van stuff turned up at about the same time? Ahahahaha, yeah, that'd be a headless-chicken abomination of organisation, I can tell you.) So hopefully I can get everything all sorted out and then hooray, I can start perfume-making! I'll do the prototypes with jojoba oil as base because that's what I can actually get my hands on without resorting to more online ordering, but that's just going to be practice run, I think. I'd much rather use grain alcohol but never mind; we work with what we have. And what I have is a lot of ideas. I don't know if this first batch is enough to get a complete line of anything (Changeling Kiths, Mage Trads, DA2 characters...) but it'll be a good start while I browse for other stuff.
Right, I'd best get on with it. My mind may be in the process of reorganising my flat (it's like playing Sims, only all in my brain) but there's still stuff to be typed. Too much to do. Always too much to do. Still, at least it keeps me occupied and out of mischief.
Then I get to decide on the 'elsewhere'. I was looking over the flat last night and thinking about alternate storage space. There are a few options, particularly when talking about things I don't use very often. The kitchen cabinets, for example, are not flush against the ceiling, so I could conceivably store some things that I don't use regularly on top of that - it involves standing on a chair to get to it, but hey, as long as it's nothing overly heavy, I suppose... I've got a couple of boxes taking up floor space and those can probably go. I still need to track myself down a DVD rack, but I'll have a hunt-around at lunchtime and see what I can find. That'll free up most of the top shelf of my current bookshelf, which I can then hopefully use as workspace. There will be more furniture shifting when I get home. Maybe I can take off early today. Gods have mercy, I know things are going to look better and everything once I have this all sorted out but it's just looking incredibly daunting right now.
Still, there is some good news. My first lot of essential oils are turning up sometime in the next couple of days! (Wouldn't it be a hoot if my bookshelf, my oils and my man-in-van stuff turned up at about the same time? Ahahahaha, yeah, that'd be a headless-chicken abomination of organisation, I can tell you.) So hopefully I can get everything all sorted out and then hooray, I can start perfume-making! I'll do the prototypes with jojoba oil as base because that's what I can actually get my hands on without resorting to more online ordering, but that's just going to be practice run, I think. I'd much rather use grain alcohol but never mind; we work with what we have. And what I have is a lot of ideas. I don't know if this first batch is enough to get a complete line of anything (Changeling Kiths, Mage Trads, DA2 characters...) but it'll be a good start while I browse for other stuff.
Right, I'd best get on with it. My mind may be in the process of reorganising my flat (it's like playing Sims, only all in my brain) but there's still stuff to be typed. Too much to do. Always too much to do. Still, at least it keeps me occupied and out of mischief.