OK, I have packed some more, and I have inventoried. No spreadsheet, just a list with a general idea of what's in each box. 30 boxes. Ten of them are entirely books, and a few more are books mixed in with other stuff. Seven are kitchen stuff, and there will be at least two or three more of that. I have also used several rolls of bubble wrap, a bunch of towels, quite a few layers of cardboard, and an entire roll of tape to pack up the glass doors of my bookcase.

I should have had more detail on the spreadsheet about what was in each box. I have been lost on where to find some things.

I did find the nail polish though. Currently vexing me are the dry-erase pens. NO IDEA where they got packed.

In completely shallow news, have we discussed Jon Stewart's new facial hair?

He looks like the devil. A funny angry little devil-man.

You spreadsheet-making people astound me. I'd like to be that organized, but I can't imagine it happening.

I just unpack very quickly so I don't need the spreadsheet.

I think Jon Stewart seems more bitter and less funny with the beard.

Has anyone been watching Haven? Eric Balfour's face seems to have gotten even longer. Like, it looks as long a two faces. I find it very distracting.

Not as distracting as he was shirtless.

Sophia, I have been watching b/c it was shot in a town about an hour away from me, where my friends live. {(IT has nwo moved to another town, because local businesses complain that the shoots taking up the streets were losing them business.) I think the acting is pretty terrible, especially the female lead.

I still have boxes in the living room and dining room. In the dining room my antique breakfront is still in pieces, waiting for us to rip out the ugly built-in so we can repair the wall, relocate the box and wiring for the interior of the breakfront, and the outlet for accessibility, and install the breakfront. And then I can unpack the china, the teapots, the cup and saucer sets, the cream jugs and sugar bowls, the dragon figures (cinnabar, celadon ceramic, carved wood, etc.) the pysanky eggs, and the overflow every day dishes from the kitchen, and the barware.

And move the boxes from the living room into the dining room so H can build and we can install the wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling, window-framing bookshelves. And maybe by Christmas I can unpack the books, dvds, cds, art glass, pottery, sculpture, framed photos, and collections that are supposed to go on those shelves.

It's slower when you have to unpack, organize, and set up the workshop before you can do demolition and/or construction and installation before you ever get to the point of unpacking all your stuff. By that time the labels on the boxes offer much less clue than when you wrote them.

I have spreadsheets, for everything. Packing lists for business trips, personal trips, camping, going north for summer, kid trips, etc. Have a spreadsheet named 'big huge todo list' that has many tabs for work stuff, projects, etc. My mind holds zero information. It is all on the computer in one form or another.

I have never still had boxes sitting around this long after a move, but having to work every day has made it difficult to really just get after it. Also mac refuses to help at all and has yet to get into any of his boxes of toys or books.

The last time I moved I drew out an architectural plan beforehand to map where the furniture would go: [link]

Unfortunately, it didn't tell me that the combo of low front door and narrow hallway would mean my sofa couldn't fit into the apartment.

My list is mostly because the moving truck taking my stuff is also taking some other people's stuff, and I want to be able to tell immediately if anything is missing, and if so, what.