Listing…
1.) Insomnia is a royal bitch.
2.) Every twenty-eight days, my uterus tries to kill me. This may or may not be a large contributor to list item number one. Currently, at least. The rest of the time is a mixed bag of fun. And by fun, I mean EFFFFFF Youuuuuu.
3.) Somebody told me recently that I’m young in terms of changing my mind about having kids. I’m 35. So…no. No I’m not. But thanks.
4.) Trying to write things and am continually reminded that I am absolute horseshit at writing narrative.
5.) I’m drinking peppermint tea. And because my brain hangs onto ridiculous things, all I can think anytime I drink mint tea is smells like pot…
6.) I have been listening to the same band for three months straight. As in not listening to anything else. I know it’s getting to the point of excessive when Bob starts singing along to whatever I’m listening to.
7.) I’ve had grocery bags full of books sitting in my living room for an inexcusably long time. They were transferred from my parents’ house and I finally went through them. I have only actually read a handful of them, and more of them I don’t even remember buying. There are a lot of books off the bargain rack at Barnes & Noble. I picked out what I plan to keep (which could be further whittled down at a later date) and put the rest back into grocery bags to be eliminated in some fashion…donated…somewhere. And I still have boxes stashed in the second bedroom full of books that moved from the previous two places I’ve lived with Bob. There are likely a whole lot more to be eliminated from that pile too.
8.) I self-medicate by spending money. This is a realization I finally figured out within the last couple of years. I spent so much money on so much shit I never needed—so much shit I don’t even remember buying—and now I have the privilege of going through all of it and purging the tangible evidence of my personal shame from my life. And by privilege, I mean soul-crushing regret.
9.) Clinical depression. Don’t recommend it. At all.
10.) One night…recently…I was laying in bed, trying to get to sleep, and suddenly, I HAVE THE PERFECT SOLUTION FOR OUR DVD STORAGE! And then I was wide awake, so I got out of bed and started searching Amazon for supplies. I have condensed 300-ish movies down into one 10×14-inch box by eliminating the plastic cases and putting the discs into sleeves. I’ve kept the bigger boxed sets in tact because they are already pretty space efficient, but now instead of two overflowing bookcases of DVDs, there’s roughly one shelf. Which will make shopping for living room furniture (new TV stand, bookcase, end tables) much more flexible since we don’t have a few hundred movies to contend with.
11.) I’m currently working on doing the same with my CD collection. It’s much slower going. I have way more CDs than DVDs, and there is far less existing organization happening. The music isn’t going to fit into just one box, but even filling two is going to take up so much less space than a few hundred jewel cases.
12.) We have a lot of plastic to recycle now. Fortunately it can all go out with our regular recycling…over several weeks. Did you know that CD jewel cases are recycled into cassette tapes? Because when you recycle plastic, you also travel back in time. Apparently.
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