Updates on the Cleaning-The-House Situation

It’s kind of ironic that I love photography but I never post pictures to this blog.  It’s mostly laziness.  I should get around to doing something about that, but not today.

I just decided to post another update on my Week Long Cleaning Project:

Last night I finished clearing out the room that was the cats’ room, and will soon be my office.  It is totally empty now, and once it was empty, I was struck by how bad the paint looks in spots, and briefly considered repainting it.  I decided against that, because it will look better with furniture in there.  Though I will hate to pull it all out just to repaint it later if I then decide to repaint it.  Urgh, decisions.

I washed and dried all the curtains, though some of them should have been ironed before I hung them back up.  I washed all the rugs in the house.  I have to clean out and mop the laundry room, and mop the bathroom floors before I put the rugs back, though.

I cleaned out my closet.  Tracy’s stuff is all gone, so now I have a giant walk-in closet all to myself.  I refolded everything on the shelves and organized the hanging items, and then pulled all my shoes out of the closet to sweep up an insane amount of dust bunnies.  It was sick.  Now it’s clean.

I sorted out my books, because I’m moving my giant blue corner bookcases into my office so that I can have my photography books right there with me, plus storage space.  The rest of the books will go into the built-ins in the living room, and into another wooden bookcase that I inherited a few months ago (though it will be stored in the kitchen and primarily used for cookbooks).  I have a huge stack of various feminist books from college, both from classes and because I found them for cheap at the campus bookstore.  I think I’m going to finally box those up for storage, because staring at them all these years hasn’t made me read them.  (No, I’m not ready to give them away just yet.)

I cleaned out the closet in the room that will be my office, and found the box where I used to store the playbills from all the plays that I went to see as a teenager.  (I stopped going to see plays a long time ago- I don’t generally enjoy the experience.)  Jon Hamm, of Mad Men fame, went to my (admittedly large) university, and we overlapped by a year or two.  I went through some of the playbills to see if he was the lead in one of the plays that I saw at the time, and he wasn’t.  But he was listed in the playbill for a couple of other plays that were part of that theater’s summer season that same year.  That’s still pretty cool.

Tonight I hope to move the bookcases and reorganize all the books, do more laundry, and even move the computer desks and computer.  Though I will have to go buy some canned air for that last one, because the tower PC (my lovingly hand-built and hand-upgraded tower PC) is probably full of dust and cat hair (that shit gets everywhere!), and EVERYTHING is getting cleaned this week.  Everything.

Speaking of reorganizing books, I love the way that bookcases look when they’re organized by color, but as a librarian, I can’t abide the lack of function that results.  I did it as an experiment with some books in the living room several months ago, and I don’t think I’ve yet gotten over the fact that some books that should be shelved together (like the volumes of The Lord of the Rings) aren’t shelved together, and I have to guess the color of the spine of the particular volume I’m seeking.  Stupid!

I just realized that it’s the beginning of a new quarter, and thus I should write up my resolutions.  I will do it tomorrow!  (ha.)