Cleaning Up
Sep. 26th, 2004 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doronjosamaYesterday, I worked on cleaning. I can tell you're all desperately excited to know that. The cleaning started because I was tracking down my trib copies of the old AP manga I worked on back in the day. This led to going through the comic boxes, and thus finding more stuff I can sell off, and also, getting more comics put away. Which led to more sorting through boxes. More of the same today, and I'd also like to clean the bathroom, the kitchen floor and more of my office. Plus I need to run the Dirt Devil around. I know I'm getting older because I really covet those small-size portable steam cleaners from Bissel- I'd love to steam-clean the carpets.
I'm sorely tempted to take a page from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
atomicpanda's book and rearrange the bedroom. We have a really small bedroom, so small there's not much room around the bed, which is a queen-size. (PD's parents bought us the bed, because before we slept on a twin mattress on the floor. Yes, we are ghetto. Our decorating tends to be in the style known as "Early College Student".) The bed takes up a ton of space in the room, and there's some stuff in the bedroom crammed against the walls. It's very Japanese, in a realistic, cluttered Japanese apartment way, not in a pretty, clean surfaces and zen spaces way. I'd like to move the bed over and rearrange the stuff in there, so I can actually get to my side of the bed without having to slide over the corner of it TJ-Hooker-style. Having reorganized the comic boxes (and in the process eliminated two), this could be possible, since that actually opened up an extra foot of space.
Yeah, life's exciting, huh? I just realized I've forgotten to eat anything yet today, so I'm off to make something and then go to Half Price to sell two boxes of stuff I found while cleaning.
Edited To Add: I got a decent price at Half Price for my stuff, but tragically succumbed to book-buying. I couldn't help it, there was a copy of the Duran Duran: Sing Blue Silver book for $3. I also bought two cookbooks for cheap- an older one on traditional British cooking (the chapter on breads was worth it for the whole book! now I can make tea cakes & scones!) and a newer book collecting recipes from local cafes and diners and greasy spoons called Blue Plate Specials. Why yes, I do like food that is completely unhealthy, why do you ask? I am trying to learn to be a better cook, so I consider those books investments. With the change from my Half Price credit, I went to the grocery store and bought some staples. Soon I'll be eating potatoes with bacon and cheese! ^_^
I'm sorely tempted to take a page from
atomicpanda's book and rearrange the bedroom. We have a really small bedroom, so small there's not much room around the bed, which is a queen-size. (PD's parents bought us the bed, because before we slept on a twin mattress on the floor. Yes, we are ghetto. Our decorating tends to be in the style known as "Early College Student".) The bed takes up a ton of space in the room, and there's some stuff in the bedroom crammed against the walls. It's very Japanese, in a realistic, cluttered Japanese apartment way, not in a pretty, clean surfaces and zen spaces way. I'd like to move the bed over and rearrange the stuff in there, so I can actually get to my side of the bed without having to slide over the corner of it TJ-Hooker-style. Having reorganized the comic boxes (and in the process eliminated two), this could be possible, since that actually opened up an extra foot of space.Yeah, life's exciting, huh? I just realized I've forgotten to eat anything yet today, so I'm off to make something and then go to Half Price to sell two boxes of stuff I found while cleaning.
Edited To Add: I got a decent price at Half Price for my stuff, but tragically succumbed to book-buying. I couldn't help it, there was a copy of the Duran Duran: Sing Blue Silver book for $3. I also bought two cookbooks for cheap- an older one on traditional British cooking (the chapter on breads was worth it for the whole book! now I can make tea cakes & scones!) and a newer book collecting recipes from local cafes and diners and greasy spoons called Blue Plate Specials. Why yes, I do like food that is completely unhealthy, why do you ask? I am trying to learn to be a better cook, so I consider those books investments. With the change from my Half Price credit, I went to the grocery store and bought some staples. Soon I'll be eating potatoes with bacon and cheese! ^_^