Thursday

So here I am at home, taking a temporary first break from cleaning out my room. I decided to take the day off for just this purpose, since I have a handful of vacation/personal days that I haven't used yet. I plan on being busy for most of the day, cleaning out my closet, my bureau, underneath my bed, and pretty much everywhere else. A lot of clothes are going to be given away that either don't fit me or I no longer wear. Some might even be thrown out. We'll see.

One goal today is to get as many clothes as I can down to emmalyon's when I head down there this weekend. Thus going through ten-plus years of clothes that I haven't really gone through since I moved back home, to get rid of or salvage. In the process I will be getting rid of other things I don't need as well, just to get them out of the way.

Another goal is to put away as many of the books that I've had piled around me in that room. A miniature version of Emm's Bookhenge, as it were. ;) I have quite a lot of magazines as well, most of which I'll be getting rid of (re: bringing to work and leaving in the break room :p ). I'd like to do something about the writing magazines, but I'm not sure what to do with them. I may give them to my sister Kat for her perusal.

Yet another goal, though this one I'm not sure I'll get to, is to tidy up the old cellar again and get some of the stuff on that fold-out table into one general area. Music and cds and whatnot should probably be all together, not in five different places. That goal I might get at sometime in the weeks I'm back.

So yeah, I believe it's time for me to head back into the room and continue my dig through all of this stuff before I run out of time. Wish me luck. I should be up for air in a few more hours...

Thursday, Part 2

Well, I just got through the major part of my bureau/closet/etc. clothes piles and managed to find that I HAVE WAY TOO MANY FREAKIN' TEE-SHIRTS. That, and too many sweatshirts, too many pairs of jeans that are no longer good or don't fit me, and a surprisingly low number of socks. I divvied up a lot of the clothes to be given to the local shelter, and tossed a lot of them too. And the really annoying thing is that it doesn't look as though I made that much of a dent in this place!!! Well, not entirely...I can now open up my bureau drawers easier...I can also open up my closet without having to move a few things in the process...

It really looks as though I'll be keeping a lot here until further notice. I'm thinking of heading over to WalMart today (the snow was a joke today, so I know my coworkers are gonnna make fun of me for being such a candyass) and picking up a few more storage tubs to throw things in. That way all I have to do is rearrange most of the stuff down cellar here. It looks as though I will be accepting the services of my sister Kat and my cousin Alan to help me drive stuff down, as much as I was trying to avoid that. Having two cars to bring stuff into an already crowded apartment is going to make me look bad! I don't want to encroach on the Boonton gang's space, y'know!

Well, either way, the storage thing sounds good. This will definitely make it all that much easier when Emm and I get our own place. That way I won't have to come back here and spend an entire weekend trying to figure out what to bring and what not to bring. It might make the old cellar a mite bit crowded, but I figure once I take all my cds and dvds and other stuff, that will open up a little more room for me to put stuff in its place. Then when we get our place I can empty the rest out. My only concern about the old cellar is how in hell I'm going to move my vinyl. I have probably about the same as Lynxie has in the living room, probably a little more, and I don't want that to take up too much room in our new place.

On that note, off to do a WalMart/Hannaford's run to get supplies. Hopefully all this will work out okay...I don't want to leave this house with all my shit lying around everywhere!!! :p