Making something out of nothing

I am trying to hurry and get all the office cleaning and organizing done that I can in the month of Jan.  So I brought in the step ladder that lives in my pantry and got up eye-level with the top shelves and started working my way down.

Oh, sorry about the before pics!  I had already cleared 65 cookbooks off the shelves BEFORE I got the great idea to continue with the office for the last 12 days of Jan.  So I felt like any pics I took would not truly be "before" photos but more like "in the midst" pics.  I swear I will do good pictorials of the next month's room.

Back to the shelves and what I found on them.  Mr. Big Ed keeps saying that all that stuff on the shelves is mine.  Mine.  In his office.  But they are all mine.  Mr. Big Ed is a big fat liar, is what he is.  This office has one wall that is all built-ins.  Cabinets below and shelves above.  4 shelves wide with 5 shelves high on each.  They are about a yard each so that makes it about 4 yards across in total.  That's pretty frigging wide.

The far right ones are the ones that contain cookbooks.  They were completely jam-packed and now there is breathing space.  I am happy with them.  If you were keeping count at all that leaves 15 more shelves and I just counted 10 books that are mine.  10 books out of 15 YARDS of shelf space.  I rest my case, gentlemen of the jury.  Is Mr. Big Ed a big fat liar or what?

Oh, and back to the reason for this post.  I found a thin paperback journal that was from when I was pregnant with Jonathon.  Which I had done a piss-poor job of filling in.  It's one of those pre-printed "I felt this way, and the person I admire most is _____" kind of things.  And first I put it in the throw away pile, but then after I got down off the ladder I decided to look at it and see what my 25 year old self had filled in.  Not much, that's what. But I did find some great fill-in-the-blank pages towards the back for moms and dads to use to think about the birth and how things went.  So instead of trashcanning this book I am going to scan and print up copies of these pages for my clients.  Instead of rubbish it is now a resource!!  I am loving this!