I spent the majority of this week rearranging furniture.

This really all started back in September, when I bought a new mattress. When I bought the mattress, I chose a queen size mattress, aside from the Twin XL I’d made my bed for years. I went with an adjustable frame as well. The only thing I kicked myself with later was if I could have waited a month longer, I could have bought at the mattress fundraiser instead.

But one of the things that had to move with the new bed, was a bookcase I was using as basically a T-shirt dresser. Before that new bed arrived, I went through shirts more than a decade old. Some from things like high school shows or recent community production got retired to storage, while some who were so weathered that designs could not be discerned, were flaking too much or otherwise just well worn were eliminated.

That left me with the need for only one dresser, but I didn’t know what to do with the bookcase. It sat in my bedroom for a month and a half. And then temperatures changed. My apartment has electric baseboard heat. And I had moved the bookcase in front of the baseboard heater in my apartment. And while the room still did get warm, it became apparent “this bookcase can not remain here…”

And so, as I moved the bookcase from my bedroom to the hallway between my living room and kitchen, the question was “what do we do with this?”

When I almost tripped over some of my growing board game collection… Well, I had my answer.

And once all those board games were on, I moved more board games from another book case, leaving me with several empty shelves. Which is an eyesore.

Which meant Tuesday evening I was rotating a half full bookcase to have the more full shelves be able to be viewed easily.

Earlier that day, I’d had a check up with my cardiologist to see how my heart was doing. I’ve had a bout of congestive heart failure in the past decade, and a flare up when I went off meds roughly eight years ago. At my last appointment, my heart had been still showing “not pumping as well as it should.” At this appointment, I’d bounced back to “normal function with meds.”

As I joked with my sister and on Facebook – if I wasn’t sure if my heart was functioning or not – moving a bookcase without removing the books, even if it was just a 90 degree pivot – proved that is going strong.

Still working on clean up of the project, but I like the overall results. Especially the floor space it cleared up in my apartment.