WED JAN 22 2003

OK Just another random ramble about anything that strikes my mind, it has been really hard for me to conetrate lately so I have a lot of random oddness going on in my head and you get to share.

Oddly enough a lot of it has to do with sex...lol OK not odd, I am a woman in my prime, Mid 30s right... or so Kinsey and Masters and Jonhsons tells me and I figure I am alllll for that. Not to mention the fact that hey I am human and that is a very human thing. I also have a great sense of the absurd and sorry folks but there is nothing more absurd to me then sex and what people do in the pursuit of pleasure... hey myself included.

A Friend sent me a link to a funny sex toy a BANANA Shaped Vibrator and I laughed my head off, the funny part is you know their are people who really have this and use it.

Now the thing about me is when I am either suffering depression even due to SAD or Mania I also tend to have R-OCD (Recurrent-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) unlike normal OCD mine comes and goes with my saratonin levels. Some People with OCD count and some collect and some have other habits both good and destructive. Mine is an Information Collection habit...LOL I feel a compulsion to sort through lists of things and collect info, and it does not have to be important info either.

In the old pre computer days I use to sit for hours with a dictionary and thesaurus and look up words first in one and then the other and then find a word in the list the thesaurus gave and look it up in the dictionary and start all over again. Or I would just read the dictionary or the thesaurus or the encyclopedia. I would read the non-fiction card catalog at the library and as soon as it went on computer I would do searches just to amuse myself for hours.

So you can imagine what the internet is like for me... I will do link searches on topics for hours just to amuse myself when my R-OCD starts up, basically what it feels like is a stress, an anxiety and by searching I just get very calm and sort of numb. I will pic a topic like something for my page I think I may do a link page on someday and look through 100 pages to find the best.

SOOOOOO Imagine what happens when my friend sends me to one of the biggest sex toy sites on line.... LISTS OHHH beautiful lists,, one after another and some of the stuff is SOOOOOOO FUNNY

Thousands of items to look through in every imaginable topic and some of it sexy as hell and some of it I want and some of it I am saying "OH MY GOODNESS WHY????" and some of it I am sending links to friends laughing my ass off. Some of it is actually kind of scary looking, I am not talking size I am talking a few of those things are made to actually look like blood sucking aliens, where is the fun in that???

Then I am thinking Why don't they have a blind wish list where I could put my wish list on my web site like my Amazon list and WOULD I ever have the nerve???????? LOL NAHHHHHHHH I am brave not crazy (blind wish lists are when the site knows yours address but the giver does not)

OKKKK A totally different kind of rant also having to do with sex.

the Great State of Idaho ((Like many states so don't snicker till you look the laws up in your own state)) has very ridiculous Sex laws.

Basically if you are not Legally married in the eyes of the state and the church don't do it. At all, in any way.

Pre-marital sex in any way shape or form is illegal, and until a court case in 1995 sodomy and oral sex was illegal for married couples. Basically this means that if you are not married, if you are gay , strait or otherwise the state has the right to have a say in your private life. OHHH yeah and in Idaho there is still an Unlawful cohabitation law, meaning it is unlawful for two unmarried adults of opposite sexes to cohabitate.

Now you might say OH yeah but they would NEVER press these charges....MIGHT I point out that the reason the law was changed in 1995 for married couples is some Poor MARRIED couple was dragged in for having sex in the privacy of their home when the police responded to a call and got the wrong house and decided to prosecute them anyway when they discovered them in the middle of the act.

And right now the Supreme Court of the United States of America is preparing to hear a case of two Texas men (both Consenting Adults) who were arrested for violating the states Anti-sodomy laws in the privacy of their own home. These men are now defined as sex criminals in many states, they can not work for many state jobs and if either of them were to enroll in an university in half a dozen states they would have to inform student security of their record. All for having Consenting Adult sex.

NOW NO MATTER what you think of homosexuality the fact is What I do in MY bedroom is my BUSINESS. I could never do anything but missionary position (yeah I am laughing too) and I would still be a criminal in many states because I don't believe in state sanctioned and documented Marriages.

I mean who the hell are they to say that THEIR definition of marriage is right and mine is wrong? Or that I HAVE to be celibate if I don't follow their doctrine. OK I know there is a 99.9999997897% chance I will ever face procession for having premarital sex no matter what position I choose. THAT IS NOT THE POINT.

The point is that the law exists. Why should I be made to break a law that makes no sense? Here is the deal, Assuming the right wing does not make this the cause celeb and beat it down in the S,C, and it is made legal to practice sodomy in all the states, it will still be illegal in Idaho to do ANY sex act if you are unmarried WHICH means it is always illegal if you are gay or do not believe in state sanctioned/documented marriages.

WELLLLLLLL

I guess you could say that is a hot topic with me.

Recently with the OCD in full swing I went on a search for pics of nude BBWs of all sizes to draw, I am looking for nice pics, just naked big women lounging around. HARDER to find then you think. SO of cource once I found out it was hard to find adult BBW groups i went on a search quest and started finding them everywhere (someday I will put my search sources together) and then started looking through the groups.

Well most of the groups are basicly amature porn, which has not affect on me, I have draw enough live modles that photos really have no affect on me, to me they are just people. It is strange because as an artist I am very visual but my sexuality really isn't it is more mental, I am stimulated by talk and writing and reading not really photos. So looking for the preverbial needle in ahaystack pic is sort of odd. I will get lucky and find one I might draw out of every 150 to 200.... THANK heavens for thumbnails.

OK here is what I started to say.... I will looking through a Triple XXX Porno amature BBW group and there are women doing heaven only knows what with all kinds of things and ALL of them naked and SUDDENLY there is 2 or 3 pics of ME... DRESSED photos from my site, wearing lingerie or even a mini.

It is just really really weird. Now if it happend once I would not think any about it... but it has happend many times and I have people write to me and say they have found my pics in group like this... you have to understand... There are NO porn pics of me so I dont get why they are on these sites, and I may very well be the ONLY non pic on the group....LOL

Anyway it is just funny to me they could at least link to my site.

 SAT JAN 18 2003

Every one has a favorite restaraunt and mine is this really little one that is sort of hidden from the world in a business complex here in Boise.

It is hard to find if you don't know where it is or have someone take you there and the regulars like it that way...LOL I try to go here about once or twice a week.

CHEF'S HUT is a great place, imagine CHEERS with food, amazing, cheep plentiful food. The waitresses are fabulous people and the regulars are fun to get to know. The owner is a great guy who has a lot of fun decorating the place.

The front of the place has an old fashion counter and behind me in this pic is a grouping of maybe 10 or 12 tables some of them together.

The entire place is decorated in fun little things that Corky has collected. Corky is the only cook so if you are in a hurry you call ahead but if you are in the mood to read the paper and talk and relax and have a really good basic cup of coffee (with 2 flavors of artificial creamer or half and half ... the creamers are nice for me cause I don't do dairy well) and in my case yack with your grandmother then it is perfect.

 The food is amazing and the servings are huge.

This was one of my recent meals, an individual pot roast, most of that is meat in there and it came with a cup of fabulous home made soup.

One of the great things about Corky's cooking is that unlike other places where they have perfectly set recipies where you can be fired if you don't follow it every time corky cooks how ever he feels and every time the food is just a tiny bit different. I really perfer it that especially the soups.

Most people do not believe me when I tell them how cheap the prices are so here is the menu board.

Incase you wonder breakfast is amazing too.

MON JAN 13 2003

Well I have been having all these random thoughts so today is Random Thought Day... well actually if you are me every day is random thought day, today you just got lucky and I am going to share with you..... LUCKY YOU HUH?

WHAT the hell is this all about??? Am I the ONLY person who thinks this is just bizzarr???

What exactly is the point of buying flats of flowers in January and planting them JUST because there is FOUR FRICKING sunny days and a week over 50 degrees.... it is STILL JANU-FUCKING-ARY and unless you live down south or on the west coast you are going to get FROST.... SNOW.... COLD..... and need I add ..... DEAD-FUCKIN-FLOWERS

Now yes I know I should look at it as a industry that needs all the money it can get and if they can convince people that they should plant flowers in the dead of winter the P.T. Barnum ("This way to the EGRESS") Salesman in my soul salutes them BUT I still can not believe how stupid people are and seeing flowers put in the grown for the sheer purpose to freeze to death sometimes the very next day is just ANNOYING!!!!

BY THE WAY****

P. T. Barnum (1810-91) introduced more terms into our language than any other modern person. BUT the one phrase he is MOST famous for he DID NOT SAY... Barnum is not the one who gave us A sucker is born every minute That was actually a competitor.

ALSO **** Bogart NEVER says Play it again Sam .... That was Woody Allen in a movie by that name

don't you love worthless info?

Ok on the Dimension Magazine's Boards on line we have recently had a real ass of a flamer, I mentioned a little of this last time. This guy was going out of his way to stir up trouble swearing it was all in the name of "Brutal honesty" and he would rate women and say it was his expert opinion even though he had stated his biases clearly, he disliked the vast majority of SSBBWs, women much over their mid 30s he seemed to dislike ethnic women and many of his comments were cruel masked as civil comments, he did not hesitate to cuss people out if they disagreed with him and was very rude. He claimed to be 36, married for 16 years, the father of 5, a very religious man and well educated.

It made me think, what drives a person to be intentionally cruel? To go out of their way to say something to someone that they know may very well hurt their feelings. This man claims to be an FA, and you know I believe he is but he is no BBW admirer... all he admirers is the FAT in the right porportions for his tastes of course but still the fat and not the women, because if he admired the women he would not seek to belittle them, even the ones he did not desire.

In my family we are taught to respect people to never hurt anyone on purpose, the old if you have nothing kind to say to a person keep your mouth shut and if you have construtive critisim you do it in PRIVATE never in front of other people. I may have a friend who needs make up advice or who are wearing shoes that have seen their last round-up but that is something I say to them one on one and if they don't take my advice I let it go, I never make it public and I never ridicule them.

I have to wonder what would this guy say if his daughter came home heart broken because the guy she liked the most at school told her he wanted nothing to do with her cause he only dates 10 and all the boys on the team got together and rated the girls and she is a 3. Will he hug her and tell her that only jackasses rate women like that???

SUN JAN 12 2003

Well I am starting to wake up a little, lets hope it lasts a while. Now if I can just get back in the habit of Bloging I will back in the swing of things.
Things are really coming along with my plans for the house I have gotten a lot of storage units, Target had these 3 tier coated wire shelving units for $14.99 (down from $19.99) and I bought 4 for the kitchen. I put two of them on top of each other to make a 60 inch unit and two of them I strapped side by side to make deep 30 inch tall / 26 inch deep unit that I then covered the top with layers of shelving paper and a rug square and a plastic bath mat and moved the cats food station up there, clearing the table off. I put their food in a big Sterlite container next to it with a lid so they can jump up and down because to be honest they are sweet and beautiful and ... well clumsy. They have a 3 story condo they knock over all the time by missing the top.
K-Mart had these very sturdy plastic 3 drawer trolleys that you can put wheels on in white and black for $9.99 (down from $14.99.... yes I am a serious bargain shopper I am only really happy if it is on sale) So I bought three. The funny thing is I bought them each one at a time not being exactly sure where they would go and what I was going to do with them at the time. I had been using two milk crates turned upside down and stacked and covered in black cloth for a phone stand but this was just low enough to get the cats attention for a place to walk on so I thought of using one of these but the white one looked dumb in my front room with mostly black accents and material did not look good covering only the sides. I mentioned this to my Grandmother who had been shopping with me and she said she had seen a black one so I went back and bought another one in black and it looks fine and makes a great stand. The first white one fits under the side of my desk perfectly and then the third one I bought Saturday before the sale went off is going in the kitchen where I now have boxes and crates of art supplies.
My art supplies are scattered all over the house, the stuff I want to use on a regular basis don't get used because they are buried in with stuff I might use once a year or so if that but can not bring myself to toss. ((Can you say packrat???)) Right now they are piled in the corner between the library desk/table and kitchen wall and the bedroom closet and a few other places. I have bought a few really nice, really deep Rubbermaid bins that I am going to put the art stuff I use only once in a while and stuff like paints, pastels, oil crayons and other media as well as brushes and sewing stuff will go in the trolley and pads can go beside it in that same corner while the bins go in the storage hall.
I need to get this place organized so things have a place to go, before I just put things anywhere I could find a place for them. Once I am organized I can begin redecorating my bedroom and front room the way I want them. The front room is a case of just never being totally finished and unfortunately needing to have so many things that just don't go with the design I want. They just don't make a kitty condo that is Gothic looking and if they did I would be cleaning light colored cat fur off of it all the time....LOL So the front room is functional with very Gothic touches my cats knock down and snag on a regular basis so they have to be sturdy.

Like my great glass flowers, I bought them before I got my kittens, they are very exotic and very tall hand blown glass flowers, I got them 2/3rds off otherwise they would be $13.50 a stem and even if I could afford it I can not replace them because I have never seen the same kind again. Four months before I agreed to take the kittens I got the flowers and it was strange because I thought "well I am accepting that I am not going to be with so and so and have to worry about his kids breaking these, now I guess I can't get cats if I have these." Then I saw my babies at my Dads house and agreed to take them with out a thought to blown glass. The day before they came home the flowers went from their heavy blue black vase to the next to the top shelf 5 1/2 feet off the ground.
Oh well So I DON'T redo my office chair in black velvet... I will live, the velvet wouldn't. I do have black lace over laying the inside of the nasty off white lined apartment curtains this place came with I leave up since I live across from the very well lit back of a store. I do have black material as coverings on all my coffee tables along the walls I use as display tables ((I don't have a couch... it just encourages people to try to stay... lol that and very little room)) My house is loaded with all kinds of strange things and odds and ends.
Wether it is Goth enough in someone else's eyes I really don't care, I like it, I know what I am going for, I want my bedroom to be Oriental-Harem Campy, my front room to be Functional Goth, My kitchen I am thinking of maybe all out Kitsch but I am not sure. My bathroom is almost too small to be anything other then service station restroom, but I will figure something out I am sure... I already have this fabulous morning glory semi see-through shower curtain I may do something with that and do some kind of art or something for the wall... maybe fat chicks in shades of purple, blue and green and then take them to Kinkos and have them photo copied and laminated so the steam does not kill them.

Recently someone called me out on the Dimensions Magazine Weight Board about if I am a Goth Sell out, well first of all I never claimed to be UBER GOTH FAT GIRL and second of all with some ass on the board rating all the women and giving me a really low rating I am sort of of the attitude of BITE ME if you don't approve of me.
So this was my response.

 MON JAN 06 2003

Well as you can guess from the gaps in my blog the S.A.D. is really taking a toll on me I am sleeping between 12 and 16 hours a day not in one big patch of time but in bits and pieces and when I wake I am not rested or at least I don't feel rested for very long. I will feel up for about a few hours and then I feel as if all my energy is being sucked out of me. I have sub-syndromal SAD no real anxiety or depression, I am just tired and worn out.

Here is what the SAD Association website said about SAD

What is SAD?

SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) is a type of winter depression that affects an estimated half a million people every Winter between September and April, in particular during December, January and February.
It is caused by a biochemical imbalance in the hypothalamus due to the shortening of daylight hours and the lack of sunlight in winter.
For many people SAD is a seriously disabling illness, preventing them from functioning normally without continuous medical treatment.
For others, it is a mild but debilitating condition causing discomfort but not severe suffering. We call this subsyndromal SAD or 'winter blues.'

Symptoms

Sleep problems: Usually desire to oversleep and difficulty staying awake but, in some cases, disturbed sleep and early morning wakening

Lethargy: Feeling of fatigue and inability to carry out normal routine

Overeating: Craving for carbohydrates and sweet foods, usually resulting in weight gain

Depression: Feelings of misery, guilt and loss of self-esteem, sometimes hopelessness and despair, sometimes apathy and loss of feelings

Social problems: Irritability and desire to avoid social contact

Anxiety: Tension and inability to tolerate stress

Loss of libido Decreased interest in sex and physical contact

Mood changes In some sufferers, extremes of mood and short periods of hypomania (overactivity) in spring and autumn.

Most sufferers show signs of a weakened immune, system during the Winter, and are more vulnerable to infections and other illnesses.

SAD symptoms disappear in Spring, either suddenly with a short period (e.g., four weeks) of hypomania or hyperactivity, or gradually, depending on the intensity of sunlight in the Spring and early Summer.

In sub-syndromal SAD, symptoms such as tiredness, lethargy, sleep and eating problems occur, but depression and anxiety are absent or mild.

((with me I will have next to no appetite and then only eat crappy food cause I can not get motivated to cook so I eat what is available, I am so burned out on chocolate from eating it just cause it was here and my stomach is totally trashed from junk food.))

The treatment for this is lightboxes but they cost an arm and a leg and I am sort of attached to my arms and legs.

THUR JAN 02 2003

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Well I have pretty much slept through the last few days, I am going to try buying some full spectrum plant bulbs today and see if it helps at all putting them in the front room where I do my computer work. Generally we don't have so many days of no sunshine here in Boise.
I am suppose to get my car again today so my fingers are crossed that the lights will work and keep working, at the very least I can run I first of the month errands.
NEW YEARS EVE
The curse continues ....
Like I said I just don't have exciting new years eves. I slept most of the day hoping to take my mom out after her work for her birthday and then about 3:30 she called and said she was not feeling good so my grandma agreed to go out with me.
She came by and I went and got some cash and we went to the liquor store and I got my mom a pint of rum and hot buttered rum mix to go in to the purse I bought her... I got some strange looks from the other costumers as I stood there holding two matching purses (her choice) and a rum bottle to the outside of one trying to see if any of them are shorter (they are not) but it did fit. I love a good deal and of course they had all those Christmas deals where you buy the bottle at the regular price and get something free (Like I NEED a set of Christian Bro. Tumblers right???) But I don't dare drink with this S.A.D. so I did not give in.
We took it up to her and she was thrilled, lets just say work has been very stressful lately for mom.
Then Grandma and I went to this great pizza and pasta place called Chicago Connection in a really cool old building just outside of the middle of downtown that use to be a book bindery and had some wonderful pasta and listened to fabulous old jazz vocalist music and goofed off till about 6 pm.
As usual I felt all perky and fine and then I get home and am there for about 30 mins and just fade and sleep till 10 pm. I walked over to the grocery store and got a thing of deli egg rolls and a med small bag of salt and vinegar chips and a frozen can of Bicardi pina colada mixer that I made into a virgin colada....LOL this was my NYE banquet.
Then I got on line and chatted till 12:30 and slept again.....YES folks it is true I am a party animal.

NEW YEARS DAY!
I was up at about 4 am and got on line and talked to Travis till about 8:30 am and then.... you guessed it folks .... I slept, and slept and slept for the vast majority of the day.
I was actually suppose to go shopping so I WAS up and ready by 1pm but my grandmothers phone was off the hook and she thought I was still asleep LOL and by the time she figured it out it was getting dark and my cousins had come to visit so hell I went back to bed.
The big excitement of my day having no car was walking about 4 blocks at 8:30 pm for what was actually my breakfast (and only meal of the day if you don't count some chocolate) since I had not been motivated to eat all day to the only place I could find open other then the Japanese steak house (starting price $15)
I went to Busters a sports bar for finger steaks and hot tea and watched the Nokia Sugar Bowl between the Florida State Seminoles and the University Of Georgia Bulldogs (GA won 26/13) I am not big on football but I have been in GA so of course I was hoping for them and I do know how the game is played so I can enjoy it for a while and it was a really well played game.
 

MON DEC 30 2002  

NEW RESOLUTION NUMBER ONE

(((Organize the house)))

STEP # 1 ... My Bedroom

I really want to fix my bedroom up, it use to be done in a sort of gothic fairy land theme with netting on the ceiling and roses and leaves above that but I got tired of it after a few years and took down the stuff and did not redecorate and now I am ready to start again.
I recently got a deep burgundy and gold oriental comforter set that matches the cream and red one I had before (the cream one went great with the airy feel of netting and roses) the good thing is I now have five pillow shams that go well together and unlike the cream one I can easily match sheets to this one. My bed is a brand new conventional queen set on a set of water bed under-dressers for support and I really like it that way, it puts the bed up really high and this gives it a really commanding presence in the small room even with out a head or foot board which is just as well since there is just no room.
I have the light blue curtains still from before and it is a serious no go. I plan to buy burgundy sheets at wal-mart that are not too think since I do like to get some light in there and since I do not like having a bed skirt on the bed because of the dressers I am going to run the curtains for my long thin windows all the way to the ceilings on a double rod and take the skirting that came with the king size comforter and remove it from the mesh and wash and soften it and turn it into a long draping valance. I will make it so that they are connected at the top and then long panels of burgundy and gold will drape next to solid burgundy.
I collect tea light lanterns from both fancy places and dollar stores and have gotten quite a collection of them but no way to show them so I am going to string a chain over my bed from one plant hook to another like my ornaments and hang them there, I do not intend to light them in the house but they will look great, I want the room to have a very opulent harem type feel. I may run a thick chain of purple lights on the chain so that it will reflect though the different glass.
I already have quite a few small display shelves on one side of the room, I plan to put more on that same side on the other side of the door and put up more of my collections of things as well and dried bouquets of spray roses in oriental looking vases and unusual votive candle holders. I also collect things like writing sets, quills, blown glass and feather ones, wax seals and chinese calligraphy sets that I like to display.
I have wall scones for candles I am going to put up over my bed and on another wall I am going to put up one of my paintings with a set of mirrored wall candle scones on each side.
I am going to try to figure out how to get my clothes drawer farther back in my closet so I can close the door on my TV and buy a full length mirror for one of my closet doors and etch the edges so it looks interesting. I plan to get a set of shoe shelves and something to stack plastic shoe boxes on in the bottom of my closet cause every time I clean it 3 months later a tornado hits it.
I have a plain brown shelf unit and I have my DVD and VCR on it and it is not wide enough, I am thinking about trying to find a inexpensive one that is as wide as they are that I could put a cover on maybe fabric (If I don't have any of the skirt from the burgundy I still have the queen size skirt from the other set which I still use under the other comforter and which pillows I use)

Anyway these are some of the things I plan to do over the next few months, my bed room is one of my first things I want to do, at least the bed and the curtains. 

OK Tomorrow the kitchen....

SUN DEC 29 2002  

Wow I have been missing these things left and right but so much has been going on and I just have not been feeling 100%. Between the stomach stuff and what I am sure is SAD I am just dragging. It is so strange with the SAD is I am on anti-depressants but I also take an anti-manic drug so I am reducing that for a week or so to see if it helps. I am not unhappy at all I just have no energy or motivation and I want to sleep a lot more then I usually do.
Well yesterday my brother fixed my car lights and tonight for some reason they are out again, go figure, I guess he will be looking at them again, maybe they need all new wires. If I don't have car lights on new years eve then I will have yet another exciting at home by myself celebration!!! Yes I have the new years eve Jinx. Since I was 16 I have had maybe 3 good New Years Eves and my Millennial NYE was so I was in Seattle when they canceled everything AND I had bronchial pneumonia so bad I sat in a friends house and watched TV unable to lay down and had to cut my vacation short by 10 days so I could fly back to Boise to go to Hospital and spend the next month sick as could be.

OHHHHHHH WELL
I am planning on making some New Years Resolutions, yes I know Groan........... Who ever keeps them right?? But they are good to make anyway. I figure the more detailed I get about them the more likely I am to get them done. And this is as good a place as any to work them out.

My #1 goal is to organize my place and keep it organized, the major problem is too much stuff and not enough space (I use to live in a place twice this big with a big garage) and this place has next to no storage. On top of that I want to fix my bedroom up the way I like it, I had it done up sort of airy and fairy kingdom when I first moved in and took that down earlier this year and have not really don't anything with it since and I now know what I want I just have to get busy and do it since it involves quite a bit of work and some money it will take time.
So the major thing my house needs is STORAGE and SHELVES of which there are next to none, in fact I figured it out and there is not a single room of the 4 1/2 (I am counting my back wide hall as a storage room) that does not need shelves.
Well I could move I guess, but you know I like this place well enough and though I grumble during football games (I am 5 blocks from the stadium and parking gets a bit ridiculous) I actually live in a great place. I live behind a small supermarket, small enough not to drive me insane with trucks and big enough to have what I want (and I tell you I can now sleep through almost anything except dead quite) I am with in blocks of all kinds of places to eat and downtown is a quick drive away and my family only a few miles and even though one of the busiest streets in the city is about 2 blocks away it is not loud or all that busy and it is really very safe cause it is well lit from the store.
I tend to move into an apt and stay a long time, moving is a bitch and costs an arm and a leg so I would just as soon stay fix this place up, when I go my shelves will go and they will never know they had been up.
As far as shelves go the most desperate place is the kitchen, it has only a few tiny high shelves and half of them are wedged in a corner that you can not reach cause it is in between the stove and the fridge and the big square of wasted space...LOL. There is also next to NO counter space. Along one wall I intend to run one really heavy duty strong shelf about 20 inches wide and about 5 feet long at table height for my small appliances and brace the hell out of it, then about 2 feet above it put in smaller shelves. It may look weird but right now I have a 2 ft square work surface for things and have to pull them out one by one and I now have a toaster oven and would like to put it where I have been doing stuff.

OK tomorrow I will figure out the bedroom and who knows maybe more, I have already started sorting through stuff and getting rid of stuff I don't want.