Reeling me in

I bought two giant t-shirts at Walmart last week. $4 each. To sleep in. I love them. So this morning I went to the website to buy more. I couldn't find the exact same ones at the same price so I shopped around and found 'close to' and then my brain said STOP!!!! Why in the world do you need more than 2?! Actually, why do you need 2? 1 would work fine.

I went and looked at the plain t-shirt section of my closet and discovered that there is a surplus there, too. Closed the web page, and tossed a few from the closet to the goodwill bin.

I do not need more stuff. ESPECIALLY redundant stuff that I could even make myself for free from the fabric I have on hand. Buying stuff is just too damn easy and I need to fight it.

Last night was rough. I woke up a couple of times with my hands hurting. My finger joints. They have been bugging me lately but not as bad as last night. Also in one dream Betty White told me I was wearing too much perfume when I wasn't wearing any!

August means only 4 more weeks of Summer. Actually that's no longer true but I'm going to believe it. I grew up in the south where we were lucky if it stopped being hot and humid by the end of November. At the end of the first year I lived in Seattle - 1992 - I went to visit my sister for Labor Day weekend. It was still pretty warm. I came home on Monday and on the ferry back, I nearly froze my butt off. And it did not warm up again until the end of June 1993. I was so thrilled.

These days, our warm extends to about mid-September but once August is done, it's really a short coast.

I think I'm going to give up on trying to convince Biggie to eat at least some wet food. I toss more than he eats. He's not hungry. Maybe one day I'll try again but for now, if he wants kibble, he gets kibble.

The baseball starts at 11 today. I may do laundry. I might not. I have a buffet of Chinese food to pick from for lunch... and dinner. Biggie's out in the sun on the terrace looking for the bird du jour. So far, thankfully, no joy. All is quite good here.

This is how it starts

I'm now just about the Queen of Purge so it's kind of hard to believe I still have areas of this tiny home that are full o' crap that needs to go. It's true. I do. My sewing room has already had one big purge but now, needs another. Why?

Today, I decided I needed more space to hang long things. Like maybe an armoire. But, nowhere to put one. Well, there is one in the sewing room but its hanging area has one of those massively ugly plastic chests of drawers that is crammed full of stuff.

So I need to get rid of it. But it has stuff I really don't want to dump. One drawer, however, and parts of others can be deep sixed. There are three deep drawers in that room, all of which need to be emptied and purged. I am percolating a plan here.

I do not need 58 different colors of felt squares. Those plastic snaps are horrible to work with and need to go to Goodwill. And that drawer of fabric scraps call ALL go to Threadcycle.

I can put the stuff that I want to keep from the plastic chest of drawers into the deep drawers. Once I get the plastic drawers emptied, I'll trash it and then move the stuff that needs hanging in there. Problem solved.

We're in the 7th inning so I might even get started after the game.

Nailed a minor setback

Two of the massive drawers were emptied and then I emtied the drawers in the ugly chest of drawers. Turns out, once I agreed to let all fabric scraps go, that took care of half of the real estate!

I thought for a minute that even empty, I wouldn't be able to get that damn plastic thing out of the closet but I did.

And now I have hanging space!!! And bill_schubert, you can now use the real closet instead of the faux one!

Then I took the ugly thing down to the dumpsters which was not easy since it's more than 2 feet wide and 4 feet tall. But I got it down there and into the dumpster!! But, then I broke a nail.

I had meant to cut all my nails earlier today. They were getting too long to type. So, I put the rest of the project on hold and did my nails. I'll get back on it tomorrow. I thought about leaving it all until the end of the week since the house cleaner comes on Wednesday and the room must be tidy by then. But, nah. I need the incentive to finish.

I have one whole deep drawer to empty and then some shelves to organize. The daybed is now piled high with shit now so that all has to go. I have at least one car load for Goodwill. But, I'm already feeling excellent about The Last Room To Fall.