Regrouping Today, Catching Up and Movies
Currently Watching: Children of a Lesser God
Options for Later: From Netflix: Buckaroo Bonzai, Kite, Saving Face, Repo Genetic Opera
And From the Library: As You Like It, Maxed Out (Documentary), The Last Emperor (4 disc special ed.)
Very much computer maintenance today as well as more house cleaning... we have finally finished the endless shampooing of the front room (it was really scuzzy in there!) and we are going to move the new area rug in. This will also need shampooing when it is lain down but it is the next step in the massive cleaning project currently taking place at our house.
The amount of stuff that left in garbage bags, paperbags to recycling, or by way of freecycle was startling. And while I no an avid consumer it does seem as if I am a bit of a hoarder. I do not know why or how I ended up with this tendency and it definitely goes beyond "collector" at times. But here I am now finally getting rid of, throwing off the piles and piles of stuff... from art school, my English degree, old boyfriends, roommates, things picked up off the street, things used once or given to me and used not at all... it was unfathomable and so much of it not even looked at for years.
It feels good to get rid of the stuff but odd at the same time. Can't help but think that maybe there was a reason I was saving all of that stuff and if not why did I save it to begin with? Did I think these things from the past somehow defined me so much that I couldn't bear to get rid of them, and if so why was it that I felt that way. I really always thought I had a pretty decent hold on who I was/am... albeit fractured, skewed and compartmentalized but I was sure I pretty aware. Maybe it was memory, like I thought if I did not save the evidence I would not remember these chunks of my life, or that somehow it did not really happen. (How my memory works is for another entry in itself.)
But for better or worse it is gone now. The movie has ended and it's time to put in another. I probably need some food here soon and to build a Facebook page for the restaurant. Dishes, laundry and I hope to read later as well. More coffee and some Shakespeare, I think, and we'll go from there.
More soon, much more... SkipAndGoing to take it one thing at a time today....
Options for Later: From Netflix: Buckaroo Bonzai, Kite, Saving Face, Repo Genetic Opera
And From the Library: As You Like It, Maxed Out (Documentary), The Last Emperor (4 disc special ed.)
Very much computer maintenance today as well as more house cleaning... we have finally finished the endless shampooing of the front room (it was really scuzzy in there!) and we are going to move the new area rug in. This will also need shampooing when it is lain down but it is the next step in the massive cleaning project currently taking place at our house.
The amount of stuff that left in garbage bags, paperbags to recycling, or by way of freecycle was startling. And while I no an avid consumer it does seem as if I am a bit of a hoarder. I do not know why or how I ended up with this tendency and it definitely goes beyond "collector" at times. But here I am now finally getting rid of, throwing off the piles and piles of stuff... from art school, my English degree, old boyfriends, roommates, things picked up off the street, things used once or given to me and used not at all... it was unfathomable and so much of it not even looked at for years.
It feels good to get rid of the stuff but odd at the same time. Can't help but think that maybe there was a reason I was saving all of that stuff and if not why did I save it to begin with? Did I think these things from the past somehow defined me so much that I couldn't bear to get rid of them, and if so why was it that I felt that way. I really always thought I had a pretty decent hold on who I was/am... albeit fractured, skewed and compartmentalized but I was sure I pretty aware. Maybe it was memory, like I thought if I did not save the evidence I would not remember these chunks of my life, or that somehow it did not really happen. (How my memory works is for another entry in itself.)
But for better or worse it is gone now. The movie has ended and it's time to put in another. I probably need some food here soon and to build a Facebook page for the restaurant. Dishes, laundry and I hope to read later as well. More coffee and some Shakespeare, I think, and we'll go from there.
More soon, much more... SkipAndGoing to take it one thing at a time today....