Adventures in moving...

Day 5 in the new house and still surrounded by boxes. It's amazing how unpacking drops off the urgency list once the basic needs are met. Not to mention that everything left to unpack seems to require the purchase of a new storage device of some sort. Luckily, yesterday's sales ads center on the "get organized" theme, and I plan on getting together a list of measurements for various bins, shelves, and cabinets some time today.

As many of you are aware, my husband has a flair for entertaining. This isn't limited to his professional life, and was more than obvious as I unpacked the kitchen last week. The boxes I packed were labeled with such descriptions as "kitchen - serving dishes" and "kitchen - baskets and tins". You know - keep it descriptive so I know what's in each box and can unpack what I need when I need it.

Not so for the ones my better half lovingly packed - some of his more colorful labels included:

• Kitchen - knick knack crap
• Yet another kitchen box - kitchen
• Spices, coffee, assorted crap - kitchen
• Spices "Part 2" starring Wesley Snipes & John Goodman - kitchen
• Kitchen - odds & more odds
• Extremely fragile - kitchen (really it is)
• Linda's 1,000+ coffee cups (and other b.s.) - kitchen
  

Luckily, there was no crap to be found and the 1,000+ coffee cups somehow turned into about a dozen, further reduced to 8 as I unpacked into both the cabinets and boxes for a future garage sale. If you need knick knacks, odds, and more odds, let me know & I'll cut you a deal...