This Empty Space You Call Your Home...
It feels weird not getting a birthday tattoo this year. I've been getting tattooed every January since I turned 18. The reason I'm not? Well, there are a few reasons:
- I couldn't commit 100% to an idea.
- I wasn't super enthusiastic about either idea. I mean, I like the idea of getting tattooed, but I don't want to spend skin and money on something I'm not totally sure on. That's how I have one that I'm not happy with and am considering getting lasered/covered up.
- My regular guy wasn't exactly prompt on getting back to me. That's nothing new, but when I asked him to tell me dates he had available (instead of just repeatedly shooting down dates I was asking for), I had to ask him twice which kinda annoys me.
So, I'm thinking about trying to stretch my ears up to 1/2" (12.5mm). They're currently 00 gauge (10mm) and not particularly stretchy. However, I've been at this size for a few years now so maybe they could go up. For those not familiar with stretching, you do it in steps and not one swoop...at least, that's the responsible way to do it. I would go up by 1mm, then another, to get to the size I want over the course of several months.
Alright! In keeping with 24 Things that I posted about yesterday, today's clutter clearing took place in our home office. It's probably the worst room in the house for clutter and junk. We both have a bad habit of just putting papers aside and forgetting about them, nevermind the fact that we have a couple of boxes worth of stuff from when we moved over 4 years ago. I think it was last year, Andrew attempted to clear things out...but he just put the stuff on our bed! So I moved it back in here because that wasn't a good enough execution. To organize the whole room in one shot would feel pretty overwhelming for me. I've done it before, but it was just clearing off the desk of papers and junk. So while today's clearing wasn't of the whole office, I did some stuff and I already feel better. I tossed out papers, got rid of an empty box, found my small Xmas decorations (whoops), and went through some old Xmas cards and magazines. I'm terrible with getting rid of cards or magazines. With cards, I feel like someone took the time to give them to me and it feels disrespectful to get rid of them. I did toss some of them though because they were from people I am no longer in contact with or don't like. Part of me thought, "Hey, I should keep them for craft projects," which is another bad habit of mine. But I decided no, because in all likelihood I would forget about them and they'd continue sitting. It felt great to be firm with myself and allow myself to get rid of cards. As for magazines, I know I have many more lurking around downstairs or in the shed and I'll get to them at some point. I didn't expect to find any in the office. *lol* They were old tattoo magazines. I used to keep them as inspiration or whatever. I tossed the majority of them without looking, but I kept one because the work on the front is something I have thought of repeatedly since I got the magazine (which was in like '04). Progress! Oh, and I found a porn video that had gone missing. Hooray!
Talking about clutter and stuff makes me think about going through my FB list. While I don't have a ton of people on my list, I have a few strictly for "networking" (term used loosely) purposes or because I feel obligated to have them and I feel somewhat guilty about considering deleting them. However, they're people that I've either butted heads with in the past or I feel I have nothing in common with so...why I should I keep them around when I don't care what goes on in their day-to-day lives? Someone recently tried to re-add me, but I don't think I will. He's deleted his account twice and, frankly, is annoying and a pain in the ass. He's fine to hang out with in small doses and very rarely. Prior to the last time he deleted his account, he was being a total clingy creeper towards me and posting weird shit to me. For example, for Canada Day, I posted that my friend and I were going to the farmers' market. He posted a creeper comment about how he thought we were going together. When I pointed out that I never made any plans with him for Canada Day, he said that we had made general plans to go to the market together at some point. That was getting to be the last straw for me as it was so fucking weird and very "jealous boyfriend" style. I think it was a couple of weeks after that that he deleted his profile and I removed his name from my list as I thought he blocked me. *lol*