Trade You?
We do a lot of swapping and trading in the Mouse House.
The hubby and I often trade bedtime chores; one gets cups and does the tucking-in, while the other gives baths. The boys frequently trade everything from clothes to toys to side dishes during dinner. Button even swaps with Calypso sometimes; “You can have my milk if I can have your water?”. It’s a daily part of life, and one that I’m totally okay with; it keeps things interesting.
Today, the hubby and I are making one of the biggest swaps possible in this house. He’s going back to his beloved corner desk (which I despise), and I’m going back to the desk that has a full view of the kitchen in hopes of curbing Buttons food waste when hes “cooking”.
This swap involves a lot more work than you’d think it would, as the corner desk is often the “hub” of the living room. Anything that doesn’t have a home somewhere else winds up piled on one of desks shelves including miscellaneous trash, broken toys that haven’t been fixed yet, pointy or dangerous objects that have been taken away from the boys.
Besides the general clutter, the hubby and I both run dual monitors, his are sleek, lightweight LCD’s, but mine are unfortunately still large, clunky CRT’s, including a 21″ monstrosity that weighs probably 80lbs. In addition to the monitors, we each have our own accessories. I have a drawing tablet, digital camera, iPod, and other things that require some desk space; he’s got joysticks, a racing wheel and various USB drives and other odds and ends. It’s a lot of stuff to move around, especially when it all needs to sit on the floor until after I wash the desk down.
Along with this desk swap, we’ll be rewiring some of the network. Our old Linksys router has about kicked the bucket (after a good 4 years of life), so we’re swapping to a Motorola wireless one, which means we need to use a few less network cords, which is fine as most of the ones running through the house aren’t even connected to anything, they’re “just in case”.
Lots of work to do, but I’m looking forward to it because I’ve wanted to get this all done for months now.
