jlh | 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!