two more bags of paper

I've gotten rid of a lot of old financial paperwork (bank statements from previous banks, things from my student loan [1]), while keeping some I might need (mostly tax-related), and some other miscellany, and one very chaotic shelf is now half-empty and looks tidier, though it still contains a miscellany of financial and fannish papers, along with a telephone and our spare keys. Less found this time: two beads, another envelope of photos, two $1 bills, and four 29-¢ stamps.

The remaining stacks include current material: I think I need a convenient "to be paid" box to deal with part of that, and a cup for pens. And then I'll have a visibly cleaner desk, and lots of information to be looked at: envelopes of photos, lots of floppy disks, an unopened letter, my old (hardcopy) address book which I'm not sure why I'm keeping, except maybe that it has entries for my (now-deceased) grandparents.

Meanwhile, I got all of one block when I went for a walk with cattitude earlier: I'm not over this cold, and it's windy and annoying outside. But I made us lunch, feeling it was about time after Cattitude basically fed me for three days (okay, not breakfast, but how much work is it to mix berries and yogurt?).

[1] I finished paying that off in 1995.

two more bags of paper

I've gotten rid of a lot of old financial paperwork (bank statements from previous banks, things from my student loan [1]), while keeping some I might need (mostly tax-related), and some other miscellany, and one very chaotic shelf is now half-empty and looks tidier, though it still contains a miscellany of financial and fannish papers, along with a telephone and our spare keys. Less found this time: two beads, another envelope of photos, two $1 bills, and four 29-¢ stamps.

The remaining stacks include current material: I think I need a convenient "to be paid" box to deal with part of that, and a cup for pens. And then I'll have a visibly cleaner desk, and lots of information to be looked at: envelopes of photos, lots of floppy disks, an unopened letter, my old (hardcopy) address book which I'm not sure why I'm keeping, except maybe that it has entries for my (now-deceased) grandparents.

Meanwhile, I got all of one block when I went for a walk with cattitude earlier: I'm not over this cold, and it's windy and annoying outside. But I made us lunch, feeling it was about time after Cattitude basically fed me for three days (okay, not breakfast, but how much work is it to mix berries and yogurt?).

[1] I finished paying that off in 1995.

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The problem with tidying, and washing knives and such, is that it doesn't give me a proper feeling of accomplishment. It becomes a huge task because, well, that I threw away a 1992 appointment book is sufficient evidence of how seldom I do this. But when I'm done I don't have a story written, or a meal cooked, or even confidence that it'll stay tidy, because that's not how entropy and housework are.

But I have a cup of tea, I have some clean surfaces, and I think I'm going to get rid of these two random beads that I bought (from the rubber stamp on the bag) somewhere in Brooklyn, at an unknown time and for no clear purpose. The cocoa tin I just finished will be a pen holder, and maybe I can take the plastic card-holder and reassemble my wallet.

Edit (26 Feb.): The cocoa tin didn't work, but I have a pen holder, and my wallet has been reassembled.

(no subject)

The problem with tidying, and washing knives and such, is that it doesn't give me a proper feeling of accomplishment. It becomes a huge task because, well, that I threw away a 1992 appointment book is sufficient evidence of how seldom I do this. But when I'm done I don't have a story written, or a meal cooked, or even confidence that it'll stay tidy, because that's not how entropy and housework are.

But I have a cup of tea, I have some clean surfaces, and I think I'm going to get rid of these two random beads that I bought (from the rubber stamp on the bag) somewhere in Brooklyn, at an unknown time and for no clear purpose. The cocoa tin I just finished will be a pen holder, and maybe I can take the plastic card-holder and reassemble my wallet.

Edit (26 Feb.): The cocoa tin didn't work, but I have a pen holder, and my wallet has been reassembled.