I did a few useful things yesterday, but the most noticeable thing was cleaning my dresser off. It’s really been a wreck for a long time. I suppose because it’s a flat surface and it’s there when I’m done for the day I just would dump stuff on it.
My problem now is that I had stuff on my dresser that I don’t know where else to put: old watches, toys, safety pins, magic items… you know, the usual guy stuff. What’ll I do with these things if they don’t stay there? For now, I’ve put it all into a cardboard box. Maybe I’ll get a cool looking box from Pier 1 or something and keep it all in there in the bottom of my closet or something. I could just throw it all away, since its only value is sentimental, but my guts still hurt from the basement storage giveaway debacle. I’ve already lost what was left of my grade school mementos; I’m not prepared to also lose the first seven years of my time in this house…
The cleaning started when I decided I’d collect all the change from around the house and take it to the bank. I had already scooped the change out of the green ashtray in the picture below and realized I had just started cleaning off my dresser, so I took a “before” picture. There’s more stuff here than it looks like. The stack of books is actually a lidded box with drawers.
I know… I’ve got a bunch of different browns going on now: the door trim, the dresser, and the valet box. But really, I’m the only one who sees this ever, so I’ll keep it like this for now.
Where’d it all go? Did you just burn it up? It’s a shocking difference from picture to picture, but I have to say – I like that first one. It’s like an I-Spy book!
“I spy a watch, some glue and a spoon,
a flying super hero who makes a nice tune.”
Oh wait – that’s a clock, not a music box. Dnag.
I prefer the before picture. Could you put it back that way?
Do you have an obsession with time? I’m noticing an hourglass, a Superman clock, and 2 watches.
It’s just too bare. I’d put that hourglass and the booksbox back on there for aesthetic purposes. (Please notice that I refrained from writing “You should…”, rather I wrote “I’d”, I’m working on my bossy-little-sister-ness.)
This post is too much for my stuffy head. I had to read it 3 times.
1st: What 1st basement debacle? Shouldn’t there be a link to a previous post to refresh our memories? Is that when the pipe men took your stuff, like a Star Trek pin, garder from Beth’s wedding, Superman brush ????????
2nd: These don’t look like “end of the day” things. A wooden spoon (don’t you dare throw that away), a fake candle, … why do you carry these things around with you each day?
3rd: The brown colors are fine, but why did you paint the trim lighter after cleaning, only to complain about it?
4th: Bare is not in. The 1st picture is more appealing. Maybe you could put the box in the middle if that’s all you want there. But I agree the hour glass would look cool … or at least a plant.
5th: Where did you get that awesome hourglass?
6th: Do you have a door on your closet?
7th: What’s that sticking out of your dresser drawer in the 1st picture.
8th: Sorry for all the questions … is work tomorrow?
1. The basement storage debacle wasn’t a post. It was pre-Bradaptation. I had cleaned out the basement and given away lots of crap I was storing down there. I also accidentally gave away a bunch of stuff I was saving from my elementary school years. It had no value whatsoever, but it still makes me sad to think about it. The people probably just threw it away. By the time I realized what I had done, it was too late.
2. Sometimes it’s stuff I’m carrying around inside my house. I go to the bedroom for one reason or another, then it goes on the dresser.
3. I painted the trim three or four years ago. I had never noticed the clash because my dresser was already full of junk by then.
4. I’m thinking about hanging a small picture above the dresser so things don’t look so bare, but so my dresser can still be empty.
5. The hourglass is from The Bombay Company. I bought it when I was in “The Wizard of Oz” at my church and they needed it for a prop. They ended up using a different hourglass, but I liked this one, so I kept it.
6. There is no door on my closet. There isn’t really room for one. I’ve thought of putting a curtain there or something, but that would be another thing to get in my way when I’m getting ready in the morning.
7. The thing sticking out of the dresser drawer is Beth’s garter from her wedding. That is from a previous post.
8. Tomorrow isn’t work… tomorrow is another day off.
9th: “you’re the only one who ever sees this”? Don’t your out of town guests stay in your room?
10th: Why do you do useful things on a snow day?!? To make the rest of us look bad???
9. Out of town guests who stay in my room don’t count. If they are close enough to me to sleep in my bed, a crazy-messy dresser won’t bother them.
10. It’s always guilt that drives me. If I don’t do at least one useful thing during a snow day, I’ll feel guilty about wasting it.
Stop with the guilt already! Don’t you know Snow Days are God’s gift to Lutheran educators who give 25 hours a day to their ministry during the rest of the school year?! Don’t lose the joy of the moment, boy – who knows when we’ll get another one!!
I, on the other hand, watched another disc in my collector’s series of Mystery Science Theater 3000 – that surely wasn’t a must-do chore, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. No guilt. Afterward I just went in and did the dishes that had been collecting in the kitchen sink – er – stove afterward to make room for the supper to follow. [One does more of two things on snow breaks: dirties more dishes and...well...the other involves a paper product the late Mr. Whipple used to hawk on TV.]
Snow days are also God’s gift to Lutheran educators who have 102 degree fevers and bad coughs. I’m now being treated for pnemonia! Fortunately, grading is all caught up and I don’t feel too bad about sleeping most of the day. No guilt here!
9. Aw, that might be the nicest thing anyone’s ever said about us. (and the other people)