The Collection

As I have mentioned before we just recently finished re-arranging our home so that the Muk Muk would have a larger pasture to safely roam.  In the process of re-arranging, my bookshelf needed to be moved.  Anyone who has seen my bookshelf or has helped move it in the past pretty much ran away when I mentioned that we might need some help with it's migration from our bedroom to our living room.  

Years ago I asked my dad to build me an entertainment unit.  So, my dad, Dustin and I sat down and designed it so that all of our stuff fit perfectly.  Room for our stereo, TV, video game systems, spare parts, DVD's and CD's.  It worked awesome.  That is until the advent of giant flat screen TV's.  When we bought our big TV the intention was that our old TV would migrate (along with the entertainment unit to our room).  This was all fine and dandy until we bought our hobbit house and we would no longer be able to fit my bookshelves and the entertainment unit all in one room.  There was no way my books were moving out so I came up with the brilliant idea to use the shelves and space on the entertainment unit for my books, get rid of our old electronics and bribe Dustin with new stuff for the living room :)  It worked.  Old equipment sold/given away, brand new surround sound for the living room, and a fancy new home for my beloved books and there they lived until we decided that the shelf needed to migrate to the living room.

Needless to say, my books needed to come off of their giant shelf before the shelf itself could even be budged.  So I spent some time pulling the books off of the shelf and arranging them neatly in order on our bed.  This is the first time I have EVER seen my books all spread out.  I took pictures :)

Andy was nice enough to come and help us move the giant shelf (*thanks*) to it's new home in our living room and then I had to embark on the task of moving all the books from the bed to the shelf in the living room all the while keeping them in my OCD order.  This job could have been easier and would have been done in about 20 minutes if I had allowed Dustin to help me, but he doesn't understand why things need to go where they belong, so I argued to do it myself.  Obviously, I had to finish my task before bed time (as the books were napping on our bed) so it turned out to be a good thing that I had kept them in order in their transfer from the shelf to the bed (otherwise I think it is a strong possibility that I would still be arranging them now).  Anyways, here's the horrid bookshelf that sends everyone running whenever I need it moved.