Since we moved in last Friday finding a place for our CDs has been driving me crazy ... the basement of my parents house came with bookcases ... nice big ones that held all our books ... so our bookshelves from New York were turned into CD shelves ... well now we live here and it doesn't come with book shelves and the entertainment center we got isn't really built for books or CDs ... so our books must go in the bedroom


I am babbling ... anyway it has been driving me crazy to find a place for about 300 CDs ... when you combine two full collections it is crazy ... not to mention I worked in a record store for 10 years ... I figured it isn't really a status symbol to display all your CDs like it was in the 80's so tonight we bought notebooks ... 2 of them that hold 200 CDs each ... and I just spent 4 hours putting all our CDs into the two notebooks ...


front cover in the slot first ... then the CD ... store the cases that are good [they are great for computer CDs] and throw away any of them that are crappy ... I can't believe how great it is using the notebooks ... I am so impressed with the space I am saving ... not to mention I won't have to dust them ... there won't be cases laying all over the place ... and the notebooks have shoulder straps ... so we can grab one and go when we want to listen to something in the car ... or take them to work so everyone can burn copies ... it is so cool ...


I am really working hard at utilizing the space we have ... and ... getting rid of shit ... the more I throw away the more I want to get rid of ...


I am not getting rid of everything ... I did find my rainbow glasses from my favorite Dead show ... and this little plastic harmonica I played with throughout the day ... that stuff I keep ... but the goofy paper glasses in the shape of 2000 for New Year's Eve ... those were chucked ... for sure ... I don't see me ever wearing those again ...


the rainbow ones were just beautiful out on the balcony last night ... looking at the street lights ... ahhhh what fond memories those bring back ... for anyone that may have been there it was the July 4th show, 1990 in Kansas City ... what a fucking awesome day ...