There’s nothing like the threat of family coming to stay-over that makes one think about the cleanliness of one’s home. That could go into the truth categories, but it remains a solid fact today.
So, to cleaning up the guestroom/my office.
This room serves two main purposes: to sleep guests & to have somewhere to put my library/writing books/write/do psychology quizzes, etc.
Somehow or another, this room became the breeding grounds of ‘stuff’. The weird thing about ‘stuff’, it multiplies faster than rabbits, faster than speeding bullets, faster than Viagra..you get the point. Another strange thing about stuff – it leaves behind waste in the form of dust bunnies or, as I’ve heard them also called, ghost turds. Even if you move the ‘stuff’, you know where the ‘stuff’ has been.
The whole point of cleaning up, really, was to get one bookshelf over to sit beside his two brothers on another wall. In the meantime, the were two buckets of recycling papers and a little bag of garbage ‘stuff’ that went. Beyond that, here’s some things you may discover when you rearrange the shelves:
- I own a lot more poetry books than I thought I did. Considering how slender the volumes are, I have one whole shelf full!
- I have two copies of Vanity Fair. One, though, was originally sold for 75 cents. I have never read Vanity Fair.
- I have a new Compassion Child named Mango or something. He has the same last name as the other Compassion Child whose mother removed him from the program, so I thought he was just using a nickname. Nope.
- I found some old poems I wrote on paper…I do that sometimes when the computer is not in my pocket.
- I found some records of poems I published and had forgotten about. I will try and link them up here sometime this week.
- I have a folder full of transfer credits, who knew?
- I own way too many journals…I never use journals. I should.
- I didn’t find a copy of The Great Gatsby. I thought I owned that. Maybe I haven’t looked hard enough yet.
- I do have a desktop. I do.
- I have a whack of plays but I don’t have A Midsummer Night’s Dream. That’s something I should study in the future, having never read it.
- I need to put photos into albums.
- I need somewhere to put photo albums.
- We should sell some of our older DVD movies. Although looking at them I can’t see any I want to part with.
- I have a lot of dictionaries and thesauruses.
- I have trouble keeping pens handy.
- I love postcards (I have a quarter-wall full of framed cards). I have about another 40 waiting to be framed.
- I am addicted to quotations and inspirational sayings. Today’s card says, “A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.” I don’t know who this is attributed to as my mother gave me a networking board game and these were the cards inside. Now they sit in a Sucrets container on my desk.
- I have two friendly stuffed sharks looking down at me from atop my bookshelves.
- This rooms calms me, especially when it’s clean.
