tired...

We got a massive urge to rearrange the house and spent the better part of all 3 days of the holiday weekend doing so. Far from done, mostly because a lot of it involves culling books and other shelved possessions, then unloading books and possessions, then unscrewing bookcase braces from the walls, then doing the 3D equivalent of those sliding puzzles to get the pathway and destination cleared enough to slide heavy furniture there, then measure out the placement and screw the braces back onto the walls--the cats probably can't tip stuff over but we have a small active nephew--then load them back up.

Why measuring placement? I used Photoshop to make scaled floorplans and arrange scaled furniture virtually. Quicker overall than putting all the cases in and manually arranging them to fit, and it means we don't have to unload all the cases at once--we can unload the one going in the middle, place and secure and reload it, then just put the others next to it.

The advantage of having done strength training for a year was clear: stacks of books that I'd normally have found too heavy were much less heavy. I was limited in the amount I could carry by how many I could hold at one time, not by how heavy they were. That was during the culling-and-moving-out-of-the-way phase. We did eventually get down empty boxes and fill them for the move-to-the-destination-room phase, and the filled boxes were still too heavy for me to carry very far, but we also own a small hand truck. (Which did start showing signs of age, so when we did a hardware store run for flat-plug extension cords to go behind the bookcases, we also picked up a newer, sturdier hand truck.)

I'll post more when we've got the whole process completed. It'll be a bit. :D