Well, it’s not often I feel great amounts of accomplishment on a Saturday. I always go into the weekend thinking Great Things(tm) will be done, but they very rarely are. Perhaps it’s more the fact I’ve been at home since Wednesday afternoon…?

First off, I started (and more importantly, completed) a project I’ve been meaning to do for some time — clean up the shelves in the office. It’s not that they were really dirty (although, they did get dusted off), but they were somewhat disorganized and just needed to be gone through. So, I took literally every item off the shelves and physically cleaned the top two layers of shelves. Then I lowered the brackets by one snap for both the upper shelves. This was mostly so I can fit taller items on the top shelf.

Once that was all completed, I went through everything on the shelves. I ended up throwing out probably 1/5 of what was up there. Most of that stuff ended up being old manuals for things I no longer have or old catalogs for theatre scripts. I also ‘retired’ some books. They’ll go into my attic collection the next time I open up the attic (in the meantime they’re just going up to our bedroom to sit next to the attic door as a reminder). I also had some old computer parts up on the shelves; those will go into the appropriate storage unit (attic) with the other parts.

When it was all said and done, I have over half of one shelf section available (essentially 1/4 of the shelf space I was taking up before). It is amazing. I should take a picture (except there’s other stuff still cluttery around that makes it look bad — I may have to work on the rest of the stuff tomorrow).

The neighbor came by with the snowblower today to do that stuff (excellent). I’d done all the shoveling around the car and whatnot, but then I went and dug out around the mailbox so the mailman can get closer with the car (aren’t I nice?). Actually, I saw he got close enough with the car today (but it must’ve been quite a reach). Even if he doesn’t mind reaching out to the mailbox, I cleared it off for myself (in that case) because I like to get right up to the box with the car. So that’s done.

On another unrelated subject, we made a wild rice soup tonight for supper. Fantastic! I love that stuff. It’s a bit of a pain because it takes so damn long to make (it’s an hour just to cook the wild rice — that’s before you add anything else), but it’s really good (and warms up good for lunch).

And this afternoon/evening I’ve been working on my del.icio.us stuff. It’s admittedly not as cool to me as the flickr thing, but it’s growing on me. Especially due to the tags and stuff. As I was going through my browser’s bookmarks (which I deleted as I added them to del.icio.us) and tagging them, I really thought about how I’d probably visit a few of those old sites more if I just had them pop up with other results and not be buried deep within some bookmark folder to be resurrected in a bored time (rather than when they may be handy). And even since I added them, I’ve already used the tags. It’s awesome. I don’t really care if anyone else goes through them — they’re handy for me.

So once I completed that, I added another section to my sidebar here with my del.icio.us information and whatnot. I guess I figure if someone’s here reading this much stuff…they might as well be able to see what else I’ve been looking at. 🙂 I’m also trying to think of some more information to put in my other sidebar sections (namely the links and miscellaneous sections). I have some ideas, but I have to think about them yet. We’ll see…

So, my Saturday wound up being a load of organizational stuff…which is necessary at times. I don’t mind it. It’s kinda in my OCD nature.

Since tomorrow’s Sunday (it would mark the official one-week anniversary of this new venture), I think we might end up going to do some shopping in Alexandria. We’ll see. There are some things we should probably pick up (like cat & dog food amongst other things) before the baby comes so it’s all taken care of.

So until next time…

–MZ