mdlbear | Things to do (Reply)

I haven't been getting a whole lot done this week, apart from puttering around the house attempting to clean things up a little ahead of Saturday's party. I did get to the Container Store yesterday to get parts for the new kitchen island and shelves in the front bathroom (taking advantage of their 30%-off Elfa sale). But I somehow ended up with the wrong side-rails for the island (one of their basket-drawer towers, with a butcher-block top). So that brings us to the first to-do item.

done Go back to the Container Store to exchange the 10-slot rails for 7-slot.
done Assemble the kitchen island; transfer stuff from the old island.
done Decide whether to disassemble the old island or use it in the bedroom. (It's a 19" rack, so it would help organize the recording stuff, except that it's probably too big for the available space.) [But as it turns out, misdev has a use for it.]
done Install the new shelves in the front bathroom. (The existing shelf on that wall is too long, so it interferes with the shower curtain.) [The rail is about a foot too high, so the bottom shelf isn't as low as it should be. That might actually be a feature if it keeps tall people from hitting their heads on it. It's missing a molly bolt on the far right because I thought there was a stud there. Grump. Fortunately the load on the shelves is light. I can remount them later if necessary.]
done Get the charity contributions into the mail by Saturday morning.

The next batch are a bit speculative...

Continue getting the office back together.
Try (once again) to install the new vanity faucets in the front bathroom, and the new faucets in the kitchen. Really needs somebody with longer arms, but I think I can at least do a partial install in the kitchen.
Do some recording. I need to put together some gift CDs, and really ought to have decent tracks for "Demon Lover", "Guilty Pleasures", "Ship of Stone" and "The Mary Ellen Carter".
Get some more work done on the Y.D's science project (talking compass). I have all the hardware, but ~~not (yet) the cables to hook it up with.~~

Monday's a holiday, but Saturday's almost completely eaten up by the party (If you're reading this, you're invited). Unfortunately I've been a little under the weather most of the last two weeks -- I didn't really notice how little energy I had until I got it back.