logovore ([info]logovore) wrote,
@ 2009-01-16 23:30:00
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Moved! (So what makes it home?)
I have moved. Finally.

I imagine everyone has their own peculiar way to make a new place home...

I've just had tea and chocolate at a local cafe -- local, that is, to the new house. This, I realized tonight, to me makes the new place properly home. Because home is the epicenter of my doses of caffeine and sweets.

Pretty silly: much more important to me, after all, are the doses of les sucres de mon coeur, but that's a different thing, and a different kind of being home -- one fortunately not at the mercy of landlords and mortgages. (Aside: I am become so very, very lucky in my people. I must endeavor to deserve it.)

And home is where the books are, and they are here, but they're all packed. Gah! Nothing like moving 3000-4000 books to make you appreciate why you might, after all, buy one of them Kindle things.

Aside: you may have New Years' Resolutions; I have Moving Resolutions. One of them is to be more organized. Actually, *all* of my current Resolutions are to be more organized. Just different kinds of organization. (Sample: I Will Defeat The Attempts of Paper To Form Geologic Layers On My Desk.) We all have character flaws, and disorganization's mine -- well, the one I'm actually interested in fixing. (Hm, that's a revealing question: "What alleged character flaws do you have that you're really not the least desirous to have fixed?")

There are not books on the shelves yet. But there has been chocolate, and caffeine, and cuddles, and there is an office in which writing is beginning to take place again. So I think it is home.

How do you make your places home?


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[info]vvvexation
2009-01-17 11:32 am UTC (link)
I still haven't figured that one out. I was thinking just today that I haven't really thought of a place as "home" in a deep-down sense since I was a kid, although having all my stuff visible at least makes a place feel like home in a sort of shallower sense.

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[info]mrissa
2009-01-17 12:17 pm UTC (link)
The books. I organize the books. This started when we lived in five houses in five years when I was a kid: the books were the part I could do for myself.

I don't know--we've acquired a lot of stuff since we moved home. When we were in California, there were just a few of my aunt's paintings on the walls, plus a few fill-in prints. Now we have a lot more artwork that's meaningful to one or more of us, and that might become part of making a place home if we moved again. Or some of my routines might--the dog and I sit on the library couch with a book in the mid-morning. That might feel like a settling thing.

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[info]logovore
2009-01-17 06:33 pm UTC (link)
I need labels for my bookshelves. Little slip-on labels, so that I can remember where I'm supposed to put the dear things when I've removed them from their place yet again.

Because "that's the History bookshelf" just doesn't do when you've got Economic History, European History, World History, Biography, Imaginary History (more of those than you'd think)...

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[info]mrissa
2009-01-18 12:43 am UTC (link)
We haven't moved often--two apartments and the house we're in now. But the arrangement of books has been somewhat different in each locale, so I think it's the act of organizing rather than the organization being identical that's soothing/settling to me.

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[info]amoken
2009-01-23 03:13 am UTC (link)
I unpack everything, starting with: kitchen, bedroom, office, books. I also go for walks in the neighborhood and familiarize myself with local stores.

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