I won. So there.

[kyrielle]

The shelves tried, but I won. Thanks to a bit of timely advise from Dad, I knew I was okay even after I damaged the veneer a bit (I wasn't sure it wasn't structural damage), and indeed, it's Just Fine. The next step of my instructions calls for attaching it to a stud. I'm figuring I should not do that until Scott's seen it, since if he doesn't like it in the library, it will go to the garage, and unattaching it from a stud sounds like a pain-in-the-rear.

Not too much damage. My nerves are a bit taut, and I scraped a bit of paint off the wall at one point (NOT in an area that will be covered, grrrr). Broke a thumbail, scraped the thumb a bit at the same time, and then hit it with a hammer.

I think I have something in for that particular thumb but, since I didn't hit it hard enough for it to bruise up, I'm gonna count myself lucky. Everything else can be fixed with a pair of nail clippers. :)

Now to go glue some veneer back in place.... LOL.

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[kyrielle]

A video-tape of this would have been hysterical. Actually, as assemble-yourself shelves go, this was pretty easy, but that didn't preclude a "few" problems as I am not the handyest (or most common-sense-oriented) of people. Fortunately, I hit my thumb when I was getting the nail oriented/in, which means my fingers were still around the nail, which means I was hitting at the lightest that would do the job. Stung like mad, but only briefly, and was soon completely normal - no bruising, no continuing pain.

Very glad I didn't hit it harder. :)

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[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

I've hit my thumb like that before. It's amazing how such intense pain can go away so quickly.