This is the bookcase in my bedroom and the tower of games looming up to the ceiling. This is the good looking part of my room. In all other places I'm like the master of disaster. Yes I think we do have every game there is. We even have Scrabble but it's the travel version, that black blob between Battleship and the Puzzle Roll-Up mat. Is that not absurd?
My room is just scary. I have relocated the same stuff twice. Nothing is getting accomplished. If I make something look nice, by straightening it out and removing stuff that shouldn't be there, then where do I put that removed stuff? All this, I'm trying to accomplish in the name of getting to where I can bring up the file cabinet from the garage and put it in here. If I could just file all these legal papers and instruction manuals and stuff sitting around in boxes and half filed in accordian files... that would be probably three less boxes/baskets/filey things sitting around looking sad and neglected on the floor.
I thought I would get to that today, but no.
We had to go to the mall.
I brought I. to the mall to hang out with his friend who is a girl. I wandered around with L&C. Dragged their little butts thru Victoria's Secret a few times looking for some sort of non-scratchy, non-slippery nightie to purchase with my Christmas gift card. Oh and also we learned about perfume testers. We sprayed just about every tester at V. S. on the little white strips of tester paper. I bet they were thrilled. Then as I was looking around one of them would grab a bottle of perfume and dart across the store to have me smell it. Or he'd just walk around with the bottle. Like I said, thrilled. They all looked delighted we were there.
Knowing I had to go out to the mall I called the jewelery store and finally they had my necklace ready. It went to the add-a-pearl place and they put all the pearls together in a single line. The instructions of course said space the pearls out. So when it got back here, they sent it back again. Then I went a little early to pick it up, it has never taken this long before! I've been there like four times to get this poor necklace. I think it turned out okay. I have 2 more to add now since Valentines. My eyeballs look strange in this photograph. But my hair is pretty. I asked L. to help me decide which photo was pretty & we settled on this one. I still wonder if I should have bangs. Lots of people in my class have bangs this year.
After I got frustrated with losing my child at the mall because he is quick and meds-free today, I went to Pier One and bought these baskets with the hope I'll be more motivated to keep things organized. They are made of woven rolled up magazine pages from China. I guess they're Chinese words. Mr. C. told me they were "China words." We had numerous discussions in Pier One about not flapping our arms too much.
I also found this wonderful thing. I've always wanted one and I think everybody should have one too.
It's a bedside water carafe and the lid is the drinking glass. The blue thing underneath it is a coaster I crochet'd. I love it. It was only like $7.00. So now I will always have clean water to take my imitation thyroid medication with first thing in the morning. One morning I swear I swallowed one of those fake lady bug things, the stinky Japanese something something biting beetles? Yuck. It freaked me out.
The joy of purchasing the baskets and water thing was amazing. I generally do not subscribe to the idea that retail therapy is good, but it put me in a really good mood to go to Pier One and find some stuff I really could use. I still haven't figured out how I should use the baskets. But I'm sure I will get there.
On our way home the little boys and I turned the radio way up and sang along with Lady GaGa and some other songs I do not know the words for. We are big into the chorus parts. We ooohh-ooh blah blah very accurately. They seemed very relieved because I was super stressed out after someboy, as I've mentioned, decided to duck into a store and disappear completely for several minutes. Ugh. I explained very loudly in a cross voice that this can never ever happen again. I'm sure that didn't really leave an impression.
Another picture.
This was my clutter solution in the kitchen. Easy. I had this shower curtain sample from LNT. For a while it was the curtain in L&C's room, but when we closed the store I got some other real curtains.
Since all their art supplies and my mixer, slow cooker, blah blah blah are on those lower shelves, it made more sense to just cover it up. Nobody has to know the play doh and markers live back there by the Kitchen Aid mixer and the duck jerky drying thingies. The curtain is a very relaxing addition to the room. I cut the bottom off and intend to glue the hem with that fabric fixing glue stuff J. brought me. I broke the sewing machine's thread spool holding pokey stick. So I will also have to glue that back together soon, because I need to sew something for J. too.
I found several websites with cute organizing ideas, but nothing that addresses my particular situation which is, um. Small apartment.
I have too many shoes. I should get rid of some of them, knowing fully well I will never wear most of the ones that fancy neighbor gave me when she moved away. They're so cute though. But so painful. My feel do horrible things when I wear cute shoes. The bones all shift and poke through in spots they shouldn't.
I have relocated the sheets. All the linens, or most of them used to be in my closet. Oh so I decided they should go in the living room closet. So I spent a whole damn day refolding them so they're all the same size square and the pillow cases are tucked between and all. But they didn't work in the other closet. So where are they now? They're all on their way back to the box in the bottom of my closet.
My oldest son just snorged a schnoz full of snot up into his sinus cavity, in the general vicinity but slightly higher than the level of my ear. Then he chuckled and walked away.
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