Nesting Revisited

I found these images among my search results for "nesting." Now whatever you personally think of them, I'm gonna go ahead and speak out and say that I find them horrifying. Just like those photos of babies dressed up as flowers and bugs, that seem to be so popular.

On the other hand they capture the symbolism, if not the actual scene, of what we did this weekend. Which, in short, is finally starting to assemble the She-Blob room/office. Which required the following steps:

1) The "office" was downsized to an office cube and a bright green file cabinet.

• There was much cursing about the thousands of wires a computer/monitor setup actually have. All of these wires seemingly lead to nowhere and contribute nothing, yet the whole thing won't work unless they're connected just right.
• There was more cursing about the "easy snap together" flat-screen monitor. Which was anything but. What kind of direction is "Tilt at a 5 to 10 degree angle,"? 5 to 10 degrees? Really? Wait, let me find my protractor so I can be sure I'm following your simple directions correctly.
• There was yet more cursing when we realized that while the printer fits perfectly onto the printer shelf of the cube, there's not enough space to open it and therefore, can't use it to print.

2) The remaining furniture was carried out of the room to the garage, our catch-all for all items without a permanent destination.

• This was mostly done by Bree, who managed to lug vast quantities of shelving around without assistance.

3) The living room rug (which is being temporarily stored in the office until it can be temporarily moved to the guest room, from which we'll have to remove it - hopefully back to it's rightful place in the living room, once the construction is done - before my parents arrive and actually need to sleep in the guest room) was shoved to the other side of the office to free up a path to move the remaining bookshelf.

4) I mopped the piece of floor I could access.

5) We prepared to move the bookshelf back into place, until Bree realized that we'd be moving it out of the way again to allow for the baby furniture to come in. We abandoned the project.

6) We went to Carters and got baby clothes. This was easy. The biggest debate being "Is that for boys or girls?" We decided we didn't care.

7) We went to Target to get the things we hadn't received at the shower but still needed.

• We discovered that there is A LOT of baby crap out there. And that we still don't know what most of it is for.
• We wandered around like aliens visiting earth for the first time for a while, before grabbing things that we had pictures of in our registry and had therefore convinced ourselves we needed.
• We discovered that Target carries biodegradable diapers. We were actually excited about this. We were almost immediately shamed that something like diapers was now "exciting." We fled from the diaper aisle.
• We quickly understood that there were still things we were missing, though we couldn't quite tell you what they were, and assumed we'd just get them at some other point. And fled the baby section.
• We went to the video game aisle to ground ourselves with a purchase we could wrap our heads around. We didn't find anything we liked.
• We left with a pile of mysterious baby crap, some low-energy consumption light bulbs and two bottles of wine.

Yeah, that was our Saturday. What did you do?

Images by Brittany's Expressions