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Yay holiday Monday!! Nothing planned, nothing to do. I also have a decent week ahead with three full days of classes. I can handle this.

Did some random projects around the house yesterday. One of the major ones was figuring out a solution for my monitor arms. When I was rearranging things for the new computer, I discovered that the clamp on the monitor arms was warping my desk from the weight. I quickly switched back to stands to let the desk not break. But the arms are 1000 times more convenient and work better for me. I needed to figure out a solution. What I did was find to solid thin pieces of wood to put on both the top and bottom of the desk and them put the clamp on that. Now, the wood pieces will protect the desk and they will go before the desk does. That was a satisfying project to complete.

What else... Hmm. It was such a bunch of little things I am losing it. Made a nice pineapple chicken for dinner. Cleaned the kitchen stove. Played some video games. Watched a little tv. B and I did some brainstorming on how to make the kitchen work better. Let's pause and discuss this. As some of you know, our kitchen is aesthetically pleasing and one of the key reasons we bought this house. After almost two years in it, what we have found however is the cabinet layout and design is less than optimal for our needs. There's places where they used bizarro world cabinet layouts and where the giant window is, they could have put it two more cabinets and better used the space. So, what we're doing is putting a stand alone pantry at the end of the kitchen. This is the biggest problem - food storage. None of the cabinets seem to work for food - too tall, too short, too deep. A stand alone pantry will give us cabinet space for appliances and the like while making it easier for us to keep track of foodstuffs. We have been trying to find one that wasn't cheap looking (like the $200 IKEA ones) but we also didn't want to spend $1000 on some fancy furniture. We found a nice one in between for $480 that will be here in 2 weeks. Hopefully it will meet our needs because at 115lbs, I am not sending it back!

That's about it. Sleeping better with the adjusted bed. Should have done that sooner.