Unpacking progress

I write this to remind myself of what I've done, as I have a tendency to see only what I have yet to do. I moved in last Monday afternoon with 36 boxes and three suitcases in five categories: kitchen, bathroom, clothing, books & media, and electronics, plus one miscellaneous box.

I managed over the course of Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to put every dish and pan that I own into the dishwasher and into some shelf or another, but Thursday evening, after an entire day of unpacking, I had a sort of meltdown of inability to get my things to fit and went to bed completely demoralized. Of course, I was just approaching the entire thing from the wrong direction: I had the mindset of staying with a friend, where you want your things to fit into a small corner and disturb as few of their things as possible. But I live here, I'm paying rent, so it's okay to have my plates in the kitchen.

Saturday we completely rearranged every cabinet in the kitchen, including the fridge, consolidated our staples, and found we had quite a lot of room for what we owned and for the groceries we were ordering, so yay! Monday I conquered the bathroom, finished unpacking clothes and linens, and emptied the suitcases. Tuesday I hung my painting temporarily, got the bookshelves ready, and brought all the boxes save the TV box into my room. And today I unpacked all the books and media.

I have three boxes left to unpack: mail, the TV, and the misc. box. I can't believe I'm almost done!

Yay it's over!

The writer's strike that is. And CBS has already announced dates that the shows are returning, which for How I Met Your Mother is March 17. Even better, they are planning 9 new episodes—which means a 20 episode season, only 2 eps short! I'm so excited, can you tell? I'm only watching two scripted series these days (and Ugly Betty can get on my nerves) so I'm all about HIMYM returning!

(Ted is excited too!)

the tender side of simon

So, Hollywood week. I think that the restructuring of the week itself was wise, as the group thing was a pointless pitfall and really just created a lot of drama. lillijulianne was saying earlier that she wished that they had showed more of the kids interacting, but I think the reason they didn't is that the whole "we're drama nerds" thing interferes with the "let's make you into a star" thing. Still, given that they know in the fall who the top 24 are, I still don't understand why they can't make sure that in the huge pile of people we see singing, they can't make sure we see each of them at least once. It puts them at such a huge disadvantage when it comes time for the live shows.

So, who are we slashing? And who can send me to the footage from last year of the top 24 doing their intro dance?

And who else kept thinking of Chris hugging Blake last year every time someone came out of that elevator?