Useless tiny wood racks

Well, you want to know a cure for feeling exhausted and overwhelmed because you have so much to do in your new house? Turns out, starting to do the stuff on your list is the best method. Yesterday, Torsten put together the wheelbarrow, the wood rack, and the grill, while I unpacked. I cleaned a lot of boxes out of the bedroom, arranged and organized the entire linen closet, and started working on the kitchen.

And now, even though there's SO MUCH MORE to do, I feel so much better. And whenever I start to feel daunted, I just think of all those neatly organized piles of towels and sheets and it makes me feel better. And also,m I can take a look at the bedroom floor, because it is now visible, and that is very exciting. Maybe I'm crazy, but oh yeah, this is how I do everything in my life... one thing at a time. Sometimes it's better to ignore the forest for the trees.

We're pissed about the wood rack, though. The fireplace store we went to was weird... their prices were all different than the stuff that was labeled, and then they didn't have the stuff they sold us, and they tried to sub more expensive stuff, and then they sold us the floor model of the fireplace tools we wanted, and it turned out that the stand was all crooked and unstable and the handles were rusted and we have to return it. So that's one thing. And everything took forever and was weird and confusing, and annoying. Basically none of the employees knew anything and they all said conflicting things and it took us forever to get out of there.

But the more obnoxious thing is that they told us that the wood rack we bought was the right size to hold half a cord of wood, and we ordered a whole cord of wood, so we figured we'd fill the rack and then see about maybe getting a second rack. So, we filled the first rack... in about three minutes. With maybe a tenth of our cord of wood. And that's only because we stacked it way higher than it was supposed to be stacked.

So basically, half a cord of wood, MY ASS. And we don't have ROOM in our yard for ten wood racks. I mean, we DO, but only if we want to turn our entire YARD into a firewood storage facility.

So, we stacked some of the wood on the side patio, but I'd say there's still about two-thirds of a cord of wood hanging out in our driveway, looking unpleasant and blocking one of the garage doors, and I don't know what to do about it. We may go buy a big board and put it in the side yard and try to stack the rest of the wood on that.

But still, I'm pissed at those lying fireplace store people. And I intend to tell them so, when we go back to return those crappy fireplace tools.

On another note, I'm three quarters of the way through Dooce's book, and I'm really disappointed to say this, but I'm not loving it, like, at all. So please, go read about why, and tell me if you agree.

Happy weekend, everyone! Maybe by Monday our whole kitchen will be unpacked and organized. And that will make me very happy.