Slightly More Coherent
Mindful of Sarah’s energy comment from yesterday, and her spot on link, I decided to only do a little bit today. Because I’m a princess with a sugar daddy, and can get away with it. 🙂
That little bit consisted of printing out the labels I made the other day, sticking them on the Ikea bins, and at least making sure that those bins were ‘clean’ of ‘foreign’ toys.
Three labels on three bins. I printed two sets, one on plain paper (see Lego) to make sure it looked ok, and the other on proper glossy photo paper (see Playmobil). I then used both to mark the bins, one on the front, and the other on the side. I think I like the size (default Picasa 5 x 8 cm size), and now I’m thinking I should probably laminate them because they’ll almost certainly be falling off in the near future.
I labeled 11 bins like that, and found that I only had four unmarked bins left – which won’t cover the remainder of Bjarki’s stuff. Like Soffia mentioned in her comment, I’m missing the building stuff, the kitchen stuff, the small cars, the animals, the farm stuff, the playdough, the yadda yadda yadda… which means that a yet another Ikea trip seems to be looming in my near future.
Now, seeing how remarkably unproductive this appears, I will note that printing out the labels did require hunting down a very specific power-cord, making sure the little-used printer was printing ok, changing ink-tanks, and a lot of scissoring! 🙂
P.s. Bjarki has taken to waking up in the middle of the night, not finding his pillow, or needing to pee, or something these past few nights. I suspect this has something to do with the novelty of it being DARK outside in the middle of the night (mom, what’s that red light on top of the tall building?), his room being colder, and/or getting service from mom. Yes, Bjarki’s pretty mom-clingy these days, what with me obviously not firing on all cylinders, so I think he’s worried.
This wouldn’t be terrible (ok, it’s pretty terrible) except that I’m not physically tired enough to fall back asleep after the excitement of turning on the light, looking for a pillow, executing bathroom trip, changing his pants because just a tiny bit of wee got out, and putting him back to bed – all while maintaining a friendly voice. So at least two times this week I’ve lain awake for two whole hours before finally falling back to sleep, which has required a quick kitchen trip both times, because it’s utterly impossible for me to fall asleep hungry.
The result of this whole debacle was me sleeping in until noon today, and swearing to kick Finnur out of bed next time because Bjarki takes much less advantage of him than me!
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