pretty.

When things are disorganized in my life, I pick anything and everything that I could possibly control, and I change it, just to remind myself that I do have control over something. This is probably why I'm considering changing my hair color, and also why I rearranged the furniture in the apartment. We had a corner of the living room that was cluttered with all kinds of junk and crap I haven't even looked at in well over a year. Christmas tree skirts (2 for some reason), a balled up flat sheet, papers and bills and magazines, an old iron in a box, a window fan, a broken chandelier, 2 printers, and a box full of fiesta accessories including a donkey piñata, all lay in the corner next to the ironing board that never gets used, because I don't iron...

I decided to go through the junk, throw things away, reorganize, and make that corner a clean work area for me. I'll have the iMac (should arrive today or tomorrow) on my new computer desk- which is high up by the way, with a clean, plain, (very comfy) high chair, a clean skinny shelf by the window, a plant, and that's it! Very zen. Organized. Perfect.

I would like to note, however, that for a piece of IKEA furniture, this desk was extremely difficult and irritating to put together. All it is, is a table top, and you have to screw in the legs! You'd think it would be relatively simple. I have a screwdriver. It's orange. I thought- no problem! I'll have a desk in T-10 minutes! Well. I was wrong. Where each leg should go is a small round disk, and you have to screw the disk into the underside of the table top with 5 little screws. I managed to get the screws in about 60% of the way, and then I couldn't get them to go any further. I would take a break, and then come back to it and try again, but got nowhere. I made my neighbor bring me over a power drill at midnight last night so I could just get this thing put together already! I'm very impatient. So he brought the drill over (kudos), but GASP! The battery had no juice! I charged it as I got into my pajamas and brushed my teeth and paced around the apartment for 20 minutes. The juice was good to go in the battery and I sat down on the floor to tackle the disks. Good lord, these stupid screws (since they are IKEA screws...) will strip if you push-turn instead of push-down and then turn, and I was laying my entire body weight on this drill to push down and it STILL WASN'T WORKING! *sigh* Finally, after a LONG time, the screws were in. Then I had to get the adjustable legs all the same length and screw them into the disks, which wasn't too hard. But for the record, as far as IKEA furniture is concerned, in my experiences, this was the most difficult to put together. The little man on the IKEA instructions is not holding a power drill. And he's smiling. I think I have a bruise on my chest from laying on the drill. Now I have a very pretty, zen, clean desk area ready for my iMac.

Perhaps I should feel better, but I'm actually still depressed, only now I'm broke and have a pretty desk. Oooh la la. Oh, and all the junk? Yea... if you turn away from the pretty desk, you see all the crap shifted to the other side of the room.