Acting Up

Fridays are good. And with such a positive start to them, I sometimes plan to do unpleasant things on Fridays, just because there's a greater chance of actually DOING them that way...
Today, my plan is to actually attack the growing amorphous blob of CRAP in the middle of my room. There's a sewing machine, several unfinished projects, the latest pile of "to shred" documents, some receipts I really would have liked to locate last week, a random shower curtain (no, I don't know why either), and well... STUFF.

So I planned a whole three hours of my day for getting around to fixing the pile, or at least dissecting it a bit. I've got an hour left, and I haven't started yet. This is not a good sign. ...maybe tomorrow would be an even BETTER day to tackle it... after all-- tomorrow is Saturday... hmm. O the horror of it all! The problem is that even once I know what's IN the pile, I'm not sure I'll actually have a better place to keep it. I miss my extra-tall bed frame at times like these. The WHOLE PILE would have fit under it with room to spare.

Unfortunately, that (along with all my summer clothes) is buried somewhere in my storage unit. Fortunately, this may actually force me to sort, label, and redistribute everything from the pile in an orderly and productive manner. Man, who knew "dissecting" had TWO 's's in it!!

The good news is that I've been so anti about this project that I've managed to get any number of OTHER projects that I'd previously been avoiding done. I cleared out, cleaned out, and redistributed my house mate's junk drawer in the kitchen. I still don't know what all the reddish-brown powder was all over the bottom layer of junk. I sorted and cleaned and put away this huge box of spices she bought at an estate sale. I would KISS the woman who put the purchase date of each spice on the labels if I knew where she was. Everything older than two years got thrown out-- because I know PC won't throw any of them out ever, and I want her to at least START with a quality spice collection. ... Anyway, a lot of projects got crossed off the list.

And with half an hour to go, I think it's time to get busy with THIS project. Really. ...I guess I should have called this post "cleaning up my act... sort of." Meh.