This weekend has been really nice and relaxing overall.

Friday's "Date Night" yielded a nice steak for both of us at Outback.

Saturday saw us putting together furniture and placing it for the office which is located in the basement along with getting a new entertainment center that will consolidate the TV and all the other stuff (DVD, VCR, Surround sound, etc.) and a new bookcase for in the office area.

Sunday we slept in and then started into the rearranging of the boxes to finish placing furniture in the office. Once the furniture was tentatively placed we both felt the need to empty some boxes. We got through about 10-15 boxes (I think) but not everything can be put away yet so some of it still clutters our desk tops. But we definitely feel like we're making headway.

We then headed out for a quick dinner at Souplantation before heading to Dafydd's softball game. Tonight was the playoffs/championship and I'm happy to report that Dafydd's team won!! Yeah!! But it was COLD sitting there watching 2 games. Taught a couple of young ladies a little bit of Lucet before they got distracted by skateboards and playing catch, but they enjoyed playing with the yarn for quite some time even when they decided to give up on Lucet.

Tomorrow while Dafydd is at work I'll undertake getting some more of these boxes and stuff cleared. Part of the unpacking is deciding what we want to continue to hold onto and move around the world with us. My old CRT monitor has been replaced and is headed to the local Salvage store as a donation along with a printer, CD rack and some other odds and ends. Now that we have almost all of our stuff in 1 location it has become clear that we have WAY too much stuff. 3 bedroom sets, 5 sets of pots and pans, 3 sets of dishes plus a set of china and the list goes on and on. Once we get all the stuff separated out into the garage that we're giving away, we'll make that call to the local Salvage store and they'll think they hit Christmas. *smile* Still the decisions don't always come easy.

It's been forever since I posted and I still have yet to finish several of our recent trips but I thought I should post something for any readers that are still out there and go back to the other stuff later (as I've done in the past). So let's see . . well we've moved to California from England and I must admit that I've been missing all the friends we made in England while we were there. Just the other weekend we had a visit from Mary and enjoyed spending some time with her. The moving part is going fairly well. So far we only seem to be missing one thing and there hasn't been any major damage to anything but there are still lots of boxes to unpack and there are still parts of furniture or computer equipment that still has not been found among the boxes. I'm sure it's all here . . somewhere . .

For the past couple of weeks, since we lacked much furniture, both of us had our desktops set up on a pair of filing cabinets and a coffee table. I'm happy to report that today we finished assembling the desks and putting them in place for our office. I'll admit that I'm very excited about this because now when I feel like I need a break from unpacking boxes I can sit down at a desk and do some of the scanning or other things that I've been needing to get done. Additionally, it means that I'm more likely to turn the Skype on now and again just in case someone wants to call. ~smile~

Our current concern seems to be book shelving space. Those of you who have visited our place before know that we had LOTS of bookshelves in SEVERAL rooms all filled with books of some kind. Well, new place and new book shelve positioning. We've managed to put all the tall similarly fashioned book shelves in the room we're going to use as a library but that means that we'll be short book shelves in places like the office, game room or sewing room (all of which are in the same room). I'm sure it will work out somehow and some way and especially after we get all the boxes out of the way. It's amazing how much space the boxed stuff takes up .. once it is put away it doesn't look like we've got that much stuff at all. Well, okay we still have a lot of stuff but it doesn't seem to impede daily living once it is put away.

Well tomorrow we make a SERIOUS dent in the office boxes . . or at least that is the intent.