A Moment of Silence

This evening was really long...and it was my own damn fault. So I finished the chapter and kinda sorta did what it said. It had a whole big long thing about how to go about binge cleaning if you really need your whole house clean, which I pretty much ignored cause I'm not there yet. Then there was the 5 minute room rescue which is to save rooms that are so far gone (usually a basement or attic) that you can't really even walk through them, so I ignored that too. The last new thing was the dreaded Hot Spot. A Hot Spot is a place in your home that constantly gets out of control (think coffee table, night stand, etc..) I have quite a few, the dining table, the coffee table, the desk, the night stand, the kitchen counter, and the tops of both my dressers. I think pretty much any flat surface at this point is a bad zone for me. I've decided to start with one. In one of my earlier binge cleans I got fed up with not being able to use or find anything on my nightstand. It's not even that big, shouldn't be a problem, right? WRONG.. It gets covered in crap instantly (apparently clutter attracts clutter, kinda like dust bunnies) and therefor drives me absolutely crazy. So you're supposed to take like 5 minutes at the beginning and ending of your day and put everything away that appears in the Hot Spot. I've actually been doing this for the past few days but tonight it's looking a little sketchy. Should probably fix that, but in all honesty I probably won't tonight. I'm tired.

The other commandment for this chapter was to do another 27 Fling Boogie. I modified it a bit and did it my way. It seemed less stressful that way (no ripped off finger nails!) I had to have my car repaired a few months ago and in the process they ended up taking all the random hoo ha and crap that I accumulate (my car is a Hot Spot as well) and put it in a large box. Well the large box came in the house a while ago and....SAT THERE. So tonight I went through the box! YAY! I actually got rid of at least a dozen things, threw out two bags of random papers, and put away the rest. GO friggin ME! I then brought in the next round from the car to do, maybe tomorrow. I also got really ambitous and of course only got part way through the project but at least it was the hard part. I am horrible at opening mail, especially if its a bill. I do everything online and therefor it seems really silly to open up a bill if it's just a monthly send out. This has led to an entire drawer full of letters. I got the bright idea that tonight I would actually seperate them by year so they could go into their respective file folders (by the way how long do you REALLY need to hold onto bills and tax returns and things like that?) So by the time I got done separating my butt was completely asleep and I couldn't see straight but I had thrown away another entire box of paper. YAY! Again, maybe tomorrow I will finish putting them in their folders.

So anyone wondering about the moment of silence yet? I've been working up to it cause it was really hard for me and I'm trying to not go out to the trash can to get what I threw away. So, who's ready for more back story?!? ME ME ME! Ok, when I was little I had a collection (gasp!) of really pretty Christmas snow globes. Well over the year they have all slowly met their ends (amazingly enough not a single one by me) until I had the last two. Well, this year they both got smashed by a single unintended movement (again not by me.) So I did my best to not cry or get angry, I took pliers and did my best to remove the glass. I ended up with one that was saveable and one sad looking, very dry, snowman. He has been sitting on my kitchen counter since then, and tonight, I threw him out. Deep breaths... That's all I got, my brain is in memory land and I gotta go.