Blame It on the Rain
Thanks to the recent round of Bay Area storms, we lost power at our house yesterday for about six hours. Without any Internet access or car access — unless I wanted to manually lift open the two-car garage door — I decided to organize my magazines.
It's a good thing Jon and I went to Ikea the other day and picked up a lot more of their inexpensive magazine holders!
Comments
Good job. At least you lost power when it was light out. It always happens to me when it is dark so if I want to do anything it has to be by candlelight which is no fun.
Posted by: Arawa | January 20, 2010 10:17 AM
Wow, that looks great. how industrious of you! every time i try to organize my magazines i start looking through them and they hours later---- they are all over the floor. *sigh*
Posted by: Lynne Rutter | January 20, 2010 09:25 PM
Arawa - Luckily our power went out at 5:45am, so I just slept in a little longer than usual and then got to work on the magazines. (Also: If the power's out when it's dark, I like to wear a headlamp around the house so I can have my hands free and still be productive.)
Lynne - I had that exact problem after I organized everything! But at least now once I'm done reading them, I can tuck them back into their proper holders.
Posted by: anh-minh | January 21, 2010 08:08 AM
LOVE IT! can you come do mine?!
Posted by: jill bliss | January 21, 2010 03:47 PM
Awesome! I love Ikea. too bad we do not have one in Vegas:(
I am hoping to come to the Bay area in May. Would you be so kind to share a great place to stay/ Its a combined 30th birthday/anniversary trip.
Posted by: tiffany | January 24, 2010 02:50 PM
I love it! Incredible you did it in only six hours...the last time I tried to do the same, it took days and then I gave up in frustration part-way through and decided to donate most of my mags to charity. Oh well.
Posted by: Natasha | January 24, 2010 08:20 PM
Jill - Of course! I think I'm overdue for a trip to Portland!
Tiffany - I'll email you about your trip.
Natasha - I have such a problem parting with my magazines! If I don't keep the entire issue, I'll at least tear out the pages I like and file those away. (That's my next organizational project: Catching up on filing!)
Posted by: anh-minh | January 25, 2010 07:13 AM