Yes, I know, I’m so easily pleased it’s frightening. A red-shaded lamp from Pier One sends me into ecstasies. An iPod sends me into some kind of manic revelatory experience. So let’s add another OBJECT to that list:
This year I actually took advantage of the whole Presidents Day sale thing – and went to Gothic Cabinet with a coupon clutched in my hand – 75 percent off. Now THAT’S a sale. So whatever. I bought a huge bookcase – and it will arrive this Friday. I need another one. Uhm – “need”? Yes. Need. I don’t know where to put it … but it will all work out. It’s five shelves – stained a dark teak color – yum. I can’t WAIT to rearrange all my books.
Also, I just have to take a second to thank one of my readers who just made my day by sending me an item off my Wish List: America’s Constitution: A Biography
It’s one of those things where I forgot it was even ON the wish list – and today it arrived – like a mini-Christmas day pour moi!
I think this book will dovetail QUITE nicely with the biography I’m reading now of Mr. Ratification himself, Alexander Hamilton.
And now I won’t have to stack the book on its side, on top of other books. I will have a bit more ROOM for my BOOKS. Less room for ME, personally … but more room for the BOOKS. And that’s really what’s important.
Oh god. My books right now are piled to the hilt in my shelves. I have stacks of them in random piles around the apartment. I need a new bookcase, but I’m literally (yes, LITERALLY!) worried that my apartment will EXPLODE if I try to fit one more piece of furniture in it. Maybe I’ll get rid of the couch or my bed or something to make room. I have priorities, after all.
hahahahaha
So true! I actually had a moment to myself before I bought it, thinking: “Hmmm … will the floor support the weight of all my BOOKS or will I go crashing thru into the apartment below????”
I THINK I found a spot for it – but I have to move the dresser over – which kind of clutters up the space – but … well. It’s better than the ‘random piles’ which now threaten to take over my whole apartment!
“Less room for ME, personally … but more room for the BOOKS. And that’s really what’s important”
True. True.
*needing new shelving*
Ok- trying to imagine which way are you moving the dresser- closer to your bed, or closer to the wall?? You could always put the shelf at the foot of your bed, kinda like a headboard. OOOO- I can’t wait to see the new shelf!!!
Beth – okay so you know where the dresser is? I have now moved the little bookcase that was RIGHT NEXT to my bed – I put that elsewhere – which cleared up the space right beside my bed – and I have pushed the dresser over so that it is flush against my bed. This leaves that corner of the wall open (on the other side of the wall is the refrigerator in the kitchen – get the picture now??) – and I was going to put the bookcase flat against that wall. There’s definitely enough space – I’ll have to see when the bookcase gets here how it looks.
The other option would be to put it in the front hallway – right by the bathroom – where the full-length mirror is now. i would move the mirror.
The only issue with that is that it’s going to be a nice bookcase and I would hate to hide it in that dark corner.
I need a digital camera so I can send you photos!! Like Mere’s foot!
I hadn’t thought of the headboard idea, though – so, what are you thinking? I would pull the bed out from the wall and put the bookcase at the foot of it? (you know how I sleep with my head at the real foot of the bed? So the bookcase would be up against the wall??)
Now, out here in the ‘burbs we have all kinds of extra bedrooms, attics, basements, and garages to clutter up and fill with our prized possessions. To be honest, we might shift a dresser, or bed, or both now and then, but we always leave room…for our music collection and audio equipment. In a pinch, we can build out the back–no sense wasting the backyard on lawn.
I’m glad you enjoyed the book Sheila, but it wouldn’t have come to you if not fully deserved! Keep on being who you are and posting. :)
I wish I could see that one-woman play of yours live! I read the original post you linked a few posts below and it was great!
Cheers,
Keith.
From the one-scene play Sheila and the Downstairs Neighbor:
nok nok nok “Here–put up these Adjusta-Posts, quick!
“Why? Never mind why–just trust me.”
gothic cabinet is the BEST. i thank you for introducing me to them when i first got to the city. my cd cases (now i need a new one…help…i’m nearing 600 cds here)…my book cases…they are the best. i want to get mine stained like yours are. so pretty.
*gasps* i want one. can never have enough shelving…
Ah, the ongoing struggle to house all one’s books. I envy you, I wish I had room for another book shelf.
There’s some beautiful stuff there–pity I didn’t see anything in cherry, which would go nice with my wife’s desk and the old secretary we got from her grandfather.
Dan … my apartment is very quickly starting to look like a crazy hermit scholar lives there … hahahahahaha But oh well!! If the shoe fits …
Oh, Red….
You know that of course since I’m renovating the house I’m buying that housewares are my new Porn. Seeing that site just made things worse.
Maxim and EGM has given up its space in my satchel to make room for the IKEA Catalog, and the Ethan Allen books.
I have paint sample sheets from Home Depot in my glovebox, tucked under some custom lightswitch plates, one of Jimi Hendrix, the other of Ella Fitzgerald.
I ponder color schemes of restaraunts, and consider the more interesting interiors for my basement.
I am Tyler’s reincarnation.
Upon rethinking the headboard/shelf idea, it won’t really work because then you wouldn’t be able to see the TV. I would really need to be in the room to move furniture around. Although, what I do with my classroom is cut out different shapes to represent my furniture, then move it around a sketch of the room with dimensions drawn in. That way, I only have to move the furniture once. (That is what Tom did with our living room. But he was in Cardi’s showroom, madly drawing pieces of furniture to scale, cutting them up, then moving them around on graph paper. I think the saleslady thought he was a bit Rainman-ish).