I can't believe how fast this month is going by, I still haven't put up any holiday decorations. And that's mainly because I had several very large piles of books I needed to put away. But I couldn't do that until I put together the new bookcase I bought. Yesterday morning, I started around 4 in the morning to get this bookcase up. But first I had to move all the stuff out of the way where I was going to put the new bookcase at (which was a corner in my bedroom). I didn't realize I had so much stuff, I guess you don't realize until you're rearranging your stuff. So after moving all that stuff out of the way, then I started building the bookcase. It was a tedious and long process (which I took a few breaks in between) but thankfully I had only one issue with one of the steps which took a while to finally complete.
So, after that, it took several more minutes to finish putting the bookcase together completely. I was so tired but I still had tons of books to finally put up. And to add to that some of the books I forgot to add to my spreadsheet, yes, I have so many books I have to keep track of them with a spreadsheet. Anyway, so after adding the books that weren't on my spreadsheet, I then took so many back and forth trips from the living room to my bedroom taking the books over to the area where the bookcase was. Then once all the books were in my bedroom, I finally started shelving them. I love books but even I had to admit I had a lot and it was going to take a while to shelve. As I was shelving my books, I was using two rows (or shelves) for my non-fiction books but I ended up taking all of them down because I realized I had too many fiction books.
However, I did put some of my big non-fiction (art and photography) books on top of the bookcase. So, now nearly all of my fiction books are on this new bookcase (I still have a lot of books in three different containers that I forgot about that I still need to shelve but I have no room for them on the new bookcase). And now I also have several boxes of non-fiction books just sitting in a corner until I can buy yet another bookcase. And that bookcase will be in the living room because I have no more space in my bedroom for another bookcase because I already have another tall one and three small ones and one medium size one so in total I have six bookcases in my room. I also have four tall ones in the living room but two out of the four have DVDs. I also have two small side tables with one having books and other DVDs. But I do have room in my living room for one more bookcase.
Anyway, it took all day for something I thought would only take a few hours at best. Boy did I under estimate this task. And not to mention all my muscles hurt. Oh, and to add to everything else, I still have a bunch of stuff that I now have no where to store. So, until I can sort all that stuff, it's now just a huge pile of stuff on my chair and ottoman. But on the plus side, the bookcase looks good (I'll post pictures once I get everything in my room cleaned up) and I got all those books out of the living room.
As for today, I'm taking it easy because I'm very much still very tired. But I am going to try to get some reading in. I want to finished reading Congo by Michael Crichton and have a review up before the month ends. And then maybe start a new book.
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