I'm still slowly working my way through my somewhat less gigantic pile of elderly unread magazines. Guess what I found this time? The July 26, 2002, issue of Entertainment Weekly had a big article about a new movie in development called...::drum roll please::...Batman vs. Superman. Yes, this article was published 11 years ago. And one of the ( Read more... )

My goal for the last mumblety years has been to declutter my apartment. One of my hidden corners (as they call them on Unfuck Your Habitat) has been the milk crate full of elderly unread magazines. This year I've been making an effort to go through them by leaving issues in strategic places where I might be tempted to pick them up and read them. It ( Read more... )

I have some time off from work, so I decided to tackle the 7 inch high pile o' crap that's completely taken over my kitchen table. So far, I've found 5 books, 4 CDs, a stack of bills and receipts from 2007-2008, a receipt for a book I bought (and read) in 2003, 2 sets of gaming dice, badges for 7 or 8 conventions, 4 health insurance cards, and a ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to be decluttering my poor apartment by reading the bazillion print books I already own but haven't read yet, but I have fallen sufficiently in love with my Nook that I keep buying books for it and reading those instead. On the plus side, I actually am reading the books I've bought for my Nook, so I'm not just building up a new backlog ( Read more... )

I now have the contents of three of my five bookcases added to Goodreads! I've been weeding heavily as I go too, so the shelves look much nicer and have room to add more stuff.

This is my life right here.I may have gotten a little bit behind on the shredding of things to be shredded. I finally set myself up on the couch in front of the TV with a cross-cut shredder, trash bag, and giant pile o' things to be shredded, then shredded my way through commercial breaks. It took me three evenings and I completely filled a 13 ( Read more... )

I like the idea of bagless vacuums for how they don't have bags to fill up landfills with, but on the other hand I miss the old days where I could vacuum up a big ugly bug and have it disappear into a bag, never to be seen again.

I have family coming over in 2 hours for an early Christmas celebration and for the first time in the 12 years I've lived here, my living room is being invaded by little brown ants. Ah, the festive smell of pine-scented Raid at holiday time.

I don't mean to suggest that my old vacuum might not have been doing its job toward the end, but I just ran the new bagless vacuum over the carpet in a 6 1/2 foot long hallway and had to empty the bin. I also had to peel a 1/4 inch thick layer of dust off the filter.

My New Year's resolution this year was to declutter my apartment. This project has been moving forward in fits and starts. Today, I took 2 big Container Store-sized bags of books to 1/2 Price Books to make room on the shelves for the bazillion books I've bought but haven't read yet...and came home with 6 movies and season 3 of House on DVD. ( Read more... )