why moving sucks: under the heading of "duh"

[lagilman]

I have a lot of books.

(chorus: duh!)


Not as many as I used to have, but a lot. Boxes and boxes and boxes. Three boxes filled with author copies of various titles and magazines. One box for cookbooks. One for foreign language references. Two for english language references. Medical (human and feline) references. And there's one entire box that's labeled, simply "poetry and lit studies, misc." Haven't even started packing up the history books, either social or military. Or hard science texts, or the mythology/supernatural books, which are going to need at least two boxes by themselves.

And that's just the research library (the section of it that's not already in storage)....

I'm going to need to buy more bookcases.


On the plus side, chapter four has been hogtied and stashed in a corner, and chapter five is heading down for the count. I'm not entirely happy with Sergei's dithering, but he's starting to figure out what I want from him, so I feel confident we'll get there, sooner rather than later. He's just worried about the bruising. Wuss.

Wren, for once, is chugging along without hesitation or stress, totally in the zone....

Comments

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I've been in this house a year and a half and I still have Bookhenge in a corner of the living room, waiting for new bookcases so they can all be put away at last.

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

And I warn you, the bigger the place you move into, the more books you end up buying. Really.

I have to get rid of more than half (more like 3/4) of my books before I move East, because there's no way I can afford to move several thousand volumes . . . unless, of course ihtliwcabao.*











*I hit the lottery in which case all bets are off

[lagilman]

And I warn you, the bigger the place you move into, the more books you end up buying. Really.

Believe me, this I know. When I moved from the house, I got rid of half a dozen boxes of books (almost all fiction), and left a dozen more in storage. This is after I've pared down and refrained from replacing.

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Ain't moving grand?

valverdi and I married last August. I finally hauled the last of my books and stuff out of my old apartment on February 28th (and only because I had to, my landlady's daughter was moving into the apartment the next day).

[blazedglory.livejournal.com]

Oh, darling!

Not to say that moving doesn't suck. I would never say that, 'cause it sure does.

But bookses is easy! Interminable, but easy. All right, I ain't the one packin' 'em. Yet. And I'll get to do all the odd-shaped ones. Hmm. Maybe I'll take that back.

Unpacking and shelving will indeed be a ... definitely more shelves.

It's the twelve years of accumulated paper, generalized stuff, and, oh, did I mention child and accompanying belongings that are making me cringe.

Moving sucks.

Maybe we could just take the books and the kid?

[jacardie.livejournal.com]

We've been in our new house a couple of weeks now, but I'm still missing books which annoys me greatly. I'm sure they're in the rented storage unit we got, but who knows when I'll manage to get my stuff from there. *sigh* Want. Them. NOW.

Not that I have anywhere to put them, but that's beside the point.

Vicki
http://www.torilennox.com/blog/

You need to join our club --

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

http://www.murderbythebook.com/

Scroll down. All they have left are sweatshirts, but I bought three of the tees for self and gifties.

Go, Wren!

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Bookhenge.

I like that.

I live in Boxhenge, and a few of them are the last of Bookhenge, I swear it's true.

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

:: sends empathy vibes ::