DIYing Machine!

I've always considered myself one those self proclaimed "Independent Women" who when Destiny's Child wrote a song about it, was sure it was made just for me.  So its no surprise that I've always enjoyed a little DIYing, or Doing it Yourself for those unfamiliar.  There has never been a project I've considered too big for me to take on.  As a child I would spend the whole day rearranging the furniture in my room, even if it outweighed me by several hundred pounds.

With Dan away, I've embraced the DIY.  I can't be certain if its because its something I would have done anyway, or because when you are here alone there is no other option than doing it yourself :P Nevertheless, I have proven, if only to myself, that I can pretty much do anything!  I have mastered the skills of painting, plastering, and sanding.  I can lift any object from the car to the house (which includes about 20 stairs) despite its size or weight.  And when my project of the day proclaims "Some Assembly Required" I almost scream out a "Hell Ya!"  (Even when I get to the instructions just to find out that the assembly requires at least two people - oh yea I can handle it all).

Now all that being said, there are lots of people around I can call on should I need help with anything.  However, I have come to enjoy the gratification of looking at my finished project and being able to take all the credit, and enjoy the bragging rights of having done it completely myself.

Today was when I truly realized that I was a DIYing Machine... it happened while I was working on installing a new closet organizer.  You see, there are three poles for hanging clothes on, and since I've already established in a previous post that I have the closet pretty well filled to the brim - I needed to ensure the poles had a good strong foundation on which to be hung so that I didn't wake up one morning with it all collapsed on the floor.  This required having a piece of wood to anchor each pole.  The difficult part came when I needed to nail that piece of wood to the wall.  Sounds easy enough, but here's the catch:  While nailing the wood to the wall, I needed to hold the nail with one hand and hammer with the other, while maintaining that the wood remained at the correct height (so the pole wouldn't hang diagonally), and remained level.  I needed four hands!! I'm not exactly sure how I managed to figure this out, but once I had it done, not only once, but three times I realized I really am a DIYing Machine!  

 The Den - Before!

 The Den - After!

 My well anchored poles

My new closet organizer!