Where I’ve been: New Year’s Eve Edition
My Christmas present to myself this year was a storage space. Doesn’t sound very festive, but I gotta tell you it’s really the best present ever. See, my house is so tiny that three books, two DVDs and a pair of shoes with no place to go equals unmanageable clutter. The only way to make this place function is to have everything stripped down, ferociously organized and completely clutter-free. For a voracious reader with a vintage shoe fetish, this can be a serious problem.
So over the last five days I’ve been boxing up girdles and hats and shoes and books and toys and assorted ephemera and hauling it over the storage space. I now have an actual to-be-read shelf, rather than the leaning tower of books pictured in that pre-Christmas entry. I made room on the Film Noir shelf for the new Warner Brothers boxed set I got for Christmas, which includes Act of Violence and the amazingly demented Decoy (which you really need to see if you haven’t already.) I have one of those nifty covered clothing racks in the storage space to hold all the vintage suits and gowns that were previously smashed into my single way-too-small closet. My kitchen is no longer doing double duty as a storage area so I have actual space to cook like a grown up again. It’s not quite as good as having a real house to live in, but it’s pretty damn close.
I’m not gonna do a year end wrap up or top ten list or anything like that. I’m too excited about 2008. I’ve got MONEY SHOT coming, plus I’m currently hard at work on a top secret project that I hope will knock all your dicks in the dirt once I make it get up and walk.
So thanks to everyone who sent me stockings and chocolate and special thanks to luchaninjakeith for providing the soundtrack to my five days of hard labor. Stay safe out there tonight and watch out for stray bullets.
So over the last five days I’ve been boxing up girdles and hats and shoes and books and toys and assorted ephemera and hauling it over the storage space. I now have an actual to-be-read shelf, rather than the leaning tower of books pictured in that pre-Christmas entry. I made room on the Film Noir shelf for the new Warner Brothers boxed set I got for Christmas, which includes Act of Violence and the amazingly demented Decoy (which you really need to see if you haven’t already.) I have one of those nifty covered clothing racks in the storage space to hold all the vintage suits and gowns that were previously smashed into my single way-too-small closet. My kitchen is no longer doing double duty as a storage area so I have actual space to cook like a grown up again. It’s not quite as good as having a real house to live in, but it’s pretty damn close.
I’m not gonna do a year end wrap up or top ten list or anything like that. I’m too excited about 2008. I’ve got MONEY SHOT coming, plus I’m currently hard at work on a top secret project that I hope will knock all your dicks in the dirt once I make it get up and walk.
So thanks to everyone who sent me stockings and chocolate and special thanks to luchaninjakeith for providing the soundtrack to my five days of hard labor. Stay safe out there tonight and watch out for stray bullets.