Hilary Booth... of course!

Those who know me and have visited my apartment know I'm a typical packrat fangirl. I am perpetually cluttered and disorganized. I am a typical packrat fangirl. I live alone in my one bedroom apartment with my Stuff. They're not very good company, truth be told, and certain corners have been telling me to get off my duff and clean up a little more.

So I felt quite virtuous about today's accomplishment. I worked on cleaning the kitchen area, dumping expired stuff and trash left and right. I was quite ruthless by my standards. No angsting, just "Do I need/use/want this?" While it's nowhere near perfect, it does do a body good to see mostly clean countertops. Whether it will stay that way is anyone's guess, but I think I've made a good start. Sometimes you just need a good push in the right direction.

Crossposted to homekeeping (a lovely community with tips/ideas on taking care of your house and organizing said chaos)

The weather is absolutely horrible today, gray, gloomy and rainy. I'll do groceries and errands tomorrow. But the spring cleaning continues. I've stacked the mysteries on their sides as well and now I've opened up all kinds of space on my poor bookshelves. I might actually see the shelves rather than the piles on them. I've also changed this LJ around a little with a new layout. I think the coloring goes quite well with Hilary. I'm also going back into the old entries and tagging them. I've left the tags list visible for now, but eventually I'll probably hide it.

I spent last night at a board games night playing Apples to Apples and Citadels. Citadels was a fun game where you're building districts and people take turns being King. It was good to get away for a Friday night.

My apartment application was approved yesterday, so I'll call the office on Monday to sign a lease.

I feel supremely virtuous this Easter Sunday. I've been dumping whole piles of old newspapers and etc. It doesn't even put a dent in the clutter in this place, but it does make me feel a little better.

I haven't written anything this weekend, original fic or otherwise. I've been very uninspired. The omens challenge sounded so interesting when I came up with it, but I can't come with anything! *pouts*

My parents are coming up next week with tentative plans to attack the dread apartment. Those of my friends who know I cringe at the word "Clean Sweep" may mock and laugh and keep me in their prayers. Moving and cleaning are good ways to increase the family blood pressure. But I have been trying to make the place look halfway decent for when they get here, so we can point at the problem spots and know what to do. Theoretically. I cleaned quite a bit today. I reorganized a chunk of my music collection again, including putting covers/cds back in their cases. I love using those little plastic sleeves, which is fine, until your collection is impossible to keep track of! It's one of those days I'd wish for an Ipod of any stripe. I suspect I'm also doing this as Nano prep, since strangely, if I have some idea what the music style for the book is like, it's easier for me to write. I doubt I'll go the whole soundtrack route. Right now, the soundtrack has a very bizarre blend of swing, classical, oldies and modern stuff. Oh, I did post the tracks for the Nano mix cd I did last year, if you want to see how my associative brain works (or doesn't).

Finished the Homicide dvds. Bunnied by very unexpected character. Renewed my love for Baltimore. Both things may wind up in the Nano.

Yay Red Sox! Go Braves!