Gah, cleaning...
May. 15th, 2003 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakGot an email from Tom elaborating on the good news. We did indeed score a third floor apartment. ^_^ V One with a really big deck, too, so we can set up a free-standing hammock for storm-watching. I'm very excited.
I've been spending the afternoon sorting through 'the abyss known as my room'. -_- Bleah. Bleah, I say. I hate cleaning. At least when it requires this much work. The upside is how _nice_ the cleansed portions look now. It's actually starting to look like the room of a grown-up, as opposed to the slightly squalid lair of a hopelessly clutter-happy woman.
Yes, Davner-chan, you should be slightly worried about what this means for our co-habitation. ^_- But only slightly. I do periodically go through my heaps and organize them; and with you around I'll have much more incentive to keep the heaps from getting out of hand in the first place. Margaret is a wonderful room mate, but she's absolutely hopeless when it comes to being a force for encouraging me to keep down the clutter. Your room may have pretensions to being a pit, but it's got nothing on the kind of clutter two women can produce in a small room.
I've been taking some before and after pics. Mostly after ones, though. I'd rather not have the before version on record for my children to stumble across one day. ^_^ "Mooooom, you were messy, why can't we be?!" I did take a pic of the infamous heap atop my bed, though, just to give Dav an idea of whow bad it was. Once I'm done with the room cleaning, I intend to (finally) take down my Easter tree.
No comments from the peanut gallery on how long it's taken me to do that. :b My mother still has her Christmas village set up on the picture rail in the dining room. So there.
Tomorrow will be the day I attack the closet, if I can get Mom to drive me to K-Mart or Target to buy plastic totes to put things in. I'd also like to get some of those wire cube stacking things, for the shelf in the closet. My closet's got a really high ceiling, but a narrow shelf set at slightly above head-height. It's relatively easy to stack things - somewhat precariously - on it, and fit a lot there, but it's hard to dis-assemble the carefully constructed stacks to get at things that aren't on top. The cubes would not only increase storage space, but make access easier. If they'll fit, Margaret will thank me for it when I'm gone.
God, it's so nice having two days off from K-Mart in a row. I've gotten so much done. ^_^
I've been spending the afternoon sorting through 'the abyss known as my room'. -_- Bleah. Bleah, I say. I hate cleaning. At least when it requires this much work. The upside is how _nice_ the cleansed portions look now. It's actually starting to look like the room of a grown-up, as opposed to the slightly squalid lair of a hopelessly clutter-happy woman.
Yes, Davner-chan, you should be slightly worried about what this means for our co-habitation. ^_- But only slightly. I do periodically go through my heaps and organize them; and with you around I'll have much more incentive to keep the heaps from getting out of hand in the first place. Margaret is a wonderful room mate, but she's absolutely hopeless when it comes to being a force for encouraging me to keep down the clutter. Your room may have pretensions to being a pit, but it's got nothing on the kind of clutter two women can produce in a small room.
I've been taking some before and after pics. Mostly after ones, though. I'd rather not have the before version on record for my children to stumble across one day. ^_^ "Mooooom, you were messy, why can't we be?!" I did take a pic of the infamous heap atop my bed, though, just to give Dav an idea of whow bad it was. Once I'm done with the room cleaning, I intend to (finally) take down my Easter tree.
No comments from the peanut gallery on how long it's taken me to do that. :b My mother still has her Christmas village set up on the picture rail in the dining room. So there.
Tomorrow will be the day I attack the closet, if I can get Mom to drive me to K-Mart or Target to buy plastic totes to put things in. I'd also like to get some of those wire cube stacking things, for the shelf in the closet. My closet's got a really high ceiling, but a narrow shelf set at slightly above head-height. It's relatively easy to stack things - somewhat precariously - on it, and fit a lot there, but it's hard to dis-assemble the carefully constructed stacks to get at things that aren't on top. The cubes would not only increase storage space, but make access easier. If they'll fit, Margaret will thank me for it when I'm gone.
God, it's so nice having two days off from K-Mart in a row. I've gotten so much done. ^_^
