Day 3.5(b) Progress!

This was yesterday. (Yep, that's the seven year old trying to get into the picture).
Today, that bookcase is completely empty. Except for a few decorative plates, the China cabinet is empty. The three 100 year old IKEA pine units on the East wall are not only empty but GONE from the room. (One is going straight to the garbage. The other two, I want to find a home for in the basement). The shelves beside the old units are empty. The shelves above the desk are almost empty.
What isn't and needs to be is (1) the dining room table, (2) the kitchen table and (3) the computer desk, where my typing on the keys makes quite a clack...and almost...an echo in my now spacious, empty red womb of a room.

Why do I need to empty the kitchen table? Well, it's the smallest and lightest of the three pieces, so I want to move it to the basement so I can set up the computer on it. Then, I have to move the dining room table into the kitchen so (1) we have a table to eat on, but more importantly, (2) I have space in the middle of the dining room to put the remaining furniture: the china cabinet, the computer desk (and drawers) and the fugly green bookcase (which will be white in about 48 hours from now--hooray!).

But all this moving depends on the hubby and the poor man is working both of his days off this week. (Usually he works only one.) So, though I'm feeling great with having emptied out the room, the actual painting may have to wait a few more days. I don't care.

I have a table to sand and stain and varnish (yep, the "little round table" project continues, you can see a corner of it in the lower left of the picture above), a bookshelf and the drawer supports and even a few shelving boards to paint while I wait. If I get really ambitious, I can do the trim.
Oh and the kitchen chairs are DONE! They look pretty spiffy too. I'll post a pic as soon as I have one.
 (It may take a while.)

Thanks everyone for helping me through my funk yesterday. I can't tell you how much it meant to me. As I was hunting down my chocolate last night, I realised how different writing the blog is from just straight journal writing. With the journal, I write things out and they tend to go away enough so I can carry on. But with the blog, the issues aren't "gone" until someone comments. Although that sort of leaves me "hanging" out there a bit, it's not a bad thing. It's how one builds relationships, right?

Anyway, enough sap.
On With The Cure!