Mental note, self.

[taennyn]

Next time you feel incredibly tired while propped up on your elbows on the floor?

Move your elbows before you fall asleep so you don't wind up body-pressing them into the carpet.

'cause a forty-five minute nap is going to leave them aching.

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[larathia]

Mmmm. floor imprints. Go try a bed. Or a couch.

[taennyn]

Who needs keyboard face when one can get carpet face?

One's bed is covered in books. It was deemed too much effort to excavate it pre-nap.

[billradish]

I'll annoy admin regularly for boxes, the rest of the week. Saturday after moving the big Stuff from my place, or Sunday, can go to your place and remove books.

[taennyn]

'kay. Have half-box of Art for walls and suchlike 'vailable to take, too.

Should go through books this week, figure out if I want to try taking some to Third Place Books. *adds to list of things to do*

oh--mamán said the family could probably find a printer they're not using, if you're interested. Could try trading a plain printer for the printer-scanner y'have now?

[billradish]

Good. We've packed up some books here, and shall likely be taking them tomorrow. *headtilt peer* Maybe later in the week, could ask father if he'd mind driving up into your neck of the woods, grab books and art.

Only real Need for printer is to print receipts and such, for online bill payment. So this would work.

[larathia]

...And one's couch?

[billradish]

She doesn't have a couch. She has a recliner, but it's suffered a similar fate as the floor.

We went through and cleaned up her floor this last weekend, so it probably actually is the clearest spot. *blink*

[larathia]

Okay, see, that's a sin, there. You have to have a couch. Futons are really good, actually. Maximum usefulness in minimum space, plus you can sleep on them.

Moving's always a bitch though.

[taennyn]

*offers* are going to get a futon for the new!apartment. More space, less odd corners occupied by built-in closets and kitchens.

*solemn* one has too much stuff.

[larathia]

That's what moving is for. So you can clear out the stuff you don't really use, need, or want - paving the way to collect all new stuff that won't survive the next move.

[taennyn]

*nods* know am getting rid of the blue semi-recliner (it Lists) and the twin-size guest mattress. Would love to take the current bath tub, but imagine apartment managers would object to a clawfooted freestanding bath tub going Wandering.

Am also getting a computer upgrade as smallish graduation gift. Male parental unit seemed oddly disappointed by modesty of request. Suggestions for shiny objects to request?

[larathia]

Hmmmm. (as they collectively hand the fingers back for a consensus taking.)

Two of my best purchases were two of my first - a futon set, futon and coffee table, which double as bed and as storage for guestbed stuff. Bookshelves also, can never go wrong with those.

Computerwise? Can't really help. But I'm fairly sure Rose can, if you want to request expensive artsy stuff.

[taennyn]

(y'all are so owned. *lazy grin*)

*nods thoughtfully* Radish and I are planning to get a futon, anyway, as combination couch and guest bed. And one-by-eight pine boards nailed together make fairly decent bookshelves (especially if they've been used in the house in sunbeams for ten years and have gone all Gold).

*tongueclick* I think I'll be alright with a flatscreen G4 with a ~24" moniter that he wasn't using anyway. =P

I'd started idly contemplating a fold-down or rolltop desk--my mother's got one that she got I think from her father, that's old and beat up and full of cubbyholes and old letters. It's neat, but 's hers, y'know? So I won't ask for that one, but something that has the same sort of lived in feel, that I could use to write longhand at or do calligraphy on. Not a computer desk, really. But I also have no idea how much such things cost. =P Was also pondering odd reference books (Pratchett mentioned Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which looked interesting, at the least), but . . gnah. Tend to at least

[taennyn]

. . . I could probably pay rent for a month or two with the money it'd take to get one of those. @.@

[larathia]

We always have been. We just don't often advertise.

Well, futons are definitely "you get what you pay for". My set's about eight years old, wood frame, flat slats, and it's got a crack in the frame at one end from too much flopping and doesn't go-bed as easily as it used to, but it's still pretty functional.

Considered a new, really good bicycle? once you have one, one's really all you need, but a GOOD one ain't so cheap. There's also Automobile if you haven't got one already, a used one can be got for under a grand if you know where to look and don't mind driving visual trash. If you have a car already, consider a GPS system for a laptop. KEY ITEM if you're going to road trip, lemme tell ya.