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December 09, 2003
Everyone should move once in a while
It's been a hectic week already. We're painting the house this week. More precisely, we're paying someone to paint the house. That only makes the experience more accute in the moving-stuff-around category.
Last night it was reminiscing as I dug through old receipts, about the places we had been when we spent that money. Old business cards from people I still know, who worked at companies that don't exist anymore (including a few of my own).
Tonight we had to move the big furniture. As we did, all of these ideas started popping up of how we could relocate, consolidate, renovate. Could we put the bookshelf downstairs and move that table into the alcove where we could finally plug that light in? How about a hutch with a glass cabinet on top and a desk for writing in the kitchen? Wow, there's really a lot of room with that moved out.
None of these ideas required a major move to see the possibilities. But without being required to change things, we just never had even thought about how things might be different. As soon as things are stirred around, some of the changes just become more obvious, and you're in a mood to think about changing things anyways.
Seems like a good thing to move things from their normal places once in a while, if only to see what happens with the change.
Posted by pete at December 9, 2003 11:59 PM
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