Tidy

Well, My Dear Readers,

I've officially cleaned my room. Not that I keep it very messy usually. I somehow grew out of that pigsty of a room stage. I thought I never would given that I had it so bad. I figured it was just a personality trait. But lo and hold, as an adult I actually prefer a neater, tidier room enough to keep it neat and tidy.

But today I clean-cleaned. Earlier this week I cleaned the bathroom (scrub down of the toilet and sink, reoganization of all my bathroom junk) so that was pretty much clean.

So tonight I desmelled and vacuumed my carpet (there was a little tsunami in the vacuum dump tank!).

I COMPLETELY reorganized all of my shelves, display areas, nightstand, and... a lot of shelves. I realized that there were too many decorations/toys on some shelves making it look cluttered and dirty even when cleaned off, so I relocated a bunch and they're all smoothed over now. I even cleaned off all the dust and muck. I even threw all those old receipts away! Oh, and I rearranged my Pablo Neruda alter. And my desk is super spick and span.

Oh, and most importantly of all, there's been this HUGE stack of clothes on this extra mattress I have that I actually planned on never putting away. They all have to be hung on a hanger in a closet. My LEAST favorite thing to do. I don't mind laundry or folding or putting in drawers. It's hanging I hate. So there was at least 20+ items I was letting pile up and look like a COMPLETE mess. But tonight? I actually hung them all. And even properly arranged them in my closet (I used to be really psychotic about color coding the clothes I hung. But this time I just seperated hoodies, sweaters with no hoods, light sweaters, coats, and skirts. Not too anal, right?)

I feel utterly accomplished. Nice super clean and shiny room. If a certain someone would let me borrow their certain camera and possibly a cord maybe I could have taken picture of my newly cleaned room. But now that chance has come and gone, completely undocumented.

Oh, I also went through my clothes and closet for things to go to my Uncle's garage sale. I'm not very close with my uncle. I have such a large family it's pretty difficult to be close to anyone beyond pleasentries (although I used to see everyone at least once a weekend. But I was only a kid then...) but especially my Uncle because he's more distant than the rest. Never goes to family parties, barely talks if he were to, and is generally uncommuncative with me in any shape or form. But his daughter, my cousin Jenna, I actually grew up REALLY close to. We spent almost every weekend and every school holiday with one another, and as we grew up we depended on each other for general friendly care taking like rides and friend problems. (I'll admit that at times I've felt it was just a tiny bit one sided although, I try to never hold that against her). So, because I was so close with his daughter, I think he may be slightly more attached to me than any of my other cousins but that doesn't change the fact of our relationship. We just aren't close. Either way, he's recently been diagnosed with Cancer (is that a capital C? or lowercase?) . He had a couple of tumors (I think) in a couple of places and his chances were placed at slim to none. This is a very sad occurance, but to be absolutely honest, other than my extreme empathy for others around me (my cousin, my mom, my grandmother), I'm not really affected. Like I said, we aren't close. I realize the horrible situation and from the bottom of my heart can only wish it that best outcome but I'm not horribly involved or torn apart. Sad, but not devastated. He was getting better for a moment, but outlook is still grim. They've decided that nothing will help him, save him, or stop the cancer (I tried lower-case this time), so he's currently on medications simply to slow the growth of the cancer.

So! to the point of this entire story: my very large family (15+ aunts and uncles, and 25+ cousins) are having a very large garage sale to help pay for the medications this weekend. I've gone through my things (finally) for my meager contribution. If anyones in the Daly City area and likes garage sales, come on down, give me a call I'll tell you where it is. (Chances are I won't be there myself. I'll be at the red bull race!)

Soon, I'll start having more pictures up. Just because I know they're SO much more eyepopping than these long, lame entries. And I'll work on having the date on the entries too. Anyone have suggestions?