I have done it! I am giddy with triumph!
It wasn't that hard, and the instructions weren't any more confusing than the instructions on cheap furniture assembly always are; but for whatever weird brain reason, I could not get through the "ID all the parts" phase when I first tried this however many years ago, and it's only since getting back on my feet post-foot-surgery that I've felt able to tackle it again. Failure to do it marked the beginning of a long nosedive in my ability to Cope, so this is a milestone.
This evening, or tomorrow, D and I can have a conversation/strategy session about what to do with the vinyl, which DVDs need to be arranged in some way other than alphabetical by title (we have box sets, series, movies, non-fiction, related properties, etc.) and then I can buckle down and make a huge improvement, not only in this room, but in other rooms where random DVDs have accumulated for no good reason.
Probably at some point they'll have to be relocated to a room that actually has a DVD player in it, but we have a long way to go before we can realistically tackle that room and this is a step in the right direction.
