o/ rock! i've just done something! and it's nearly completed!

[wellownedbkup]

i probably shouldn't be nearly as cheery about this as i am, but... I CLEANED MY ROOM. hahah. i feel accomplished. o/ all it took was (1) the threat of it all being thrown away if i didn't finish by saturday, (2) paying 30 bucks to my cousin to get some help and some company [she hung up all my clothes, folded the rest, helped me pick up trash... while i sorted the dirty clothes into hampers, sorted my room into sections, picked up all the trash, resorted my drawers and rolled around in the dust for a few hours... good trade, yeah? especially considering i was offering 50 bucks out to whoever would do it without me helping... and no one took it. everyone's broke and no one took my offer.] i've still gotta wash my clothes up, but i'm organized now. i've even got my toys in their proper place (i mean stuffed animals, not dirty toys, you gutter minded freaks...).

but! it's clean... ish. still gotta vacuum, but that'll get done shortly. and i've got one drawer full of papers and books and a whole bunch of ... stuff that i've gotta sort and whatnot. i think it'll probably stay a junk drawer, but a lot lot lot more organized. right now, it's just everything tossed together. i have no idea of half the stuff in there.

which reminds me, i just threw away maybe... 3 years worth of papers and stuff. i dunno if it was important or not, but i just picked it up and got rid of it. i think it was time to do it. god only knows what i'm gonna do with my junk drawer though. it's got stuff from like... middle school still in it.

once i finish cleaning my room once and for all, i'll take a picture and let you see. my carpet's old (i think it's been in the house as long as me. or thereabouts), my bed's old (half my age, but it used to be bunk beds...), there's a hole in my wall that i've gotta fix, and my closet is packed full of a bunch of junk (half of which i don't actually think i've worn in a year and a half or more).


my mom says she's getting a dumpster next week. i think i'll be able to get it together by then and just... get rid of stuff. i'm such a packrat. i've still got my workbooks from french class in high school (i think... does anyone remember du tac au tac as high school or freshman year?)...

my one really good thing that i did today??? we had these two smallish 'turkish' rugs that my parents used to have beside their bed cause their floor was so cold. they are now my library floor. hahah. i've got a square bit of floor next to my bed that's covered in cushy rug and all my books are right there. there's two throw pillows that stay on my bed until i want to prop myself up on the 'library floor' and have a read of something. this is probably the most important bit that makes me feel accomplished. it's not sorting out my clothes, or putting away winter things, or having a lot of open floor space... it's putting down a cushy rug that no one else is using so i can have a little personal area that's not my bed.


and now, sleep. cause this has just taken way too long. i've gotta get up early enough tomorrow so i can start on my schoolwork (yeah, definitely not paying attention and don't have any of my stuff done yet for intro to religion... sheesh), wash some clothes, stop this heartburn, vacuum and start on the eviction of junk in my room. yet another busy weekend, yeah?




[edit: yeah, you may be wondering why this makes me feel so accomplished. if i'm not going crazy, i haven't done a complete clean-up/overhaul of my room in about a year. before that, there's been stuff steadily taking over. i half cleaned it about 2 weeks ago. but that was just transferral of junk from one side of my room to the other. i'm actually throwing stuff away now. BIG accomplishment for me. i've been a little depressed lately and i really, really didn't want to do it.]

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[thefragyle.livejournal.com]

whee! cleaning out rooms and throwing stuff out is a really good feeling. i've been slowly doing that, along with rearranging and planning to redecorate, since i came home from hanover. the orange walls will soon be no more! which sort of makes me sad, but i think i'll live.

i'm happy to be getting rid of a lot of stuff.

[wellowned.livejournal.com]

it is a good feeling... but only when i have company here. i've never had to clean my room by myself. shared rooms til a year and a half ago? and my room's been kind of a mess since. *is ashamed*

but... orange walls???

[thefragyle.livejournal.com]

oh yes. i have bright orange walls. and a blue ceiling, with clouds. mom let me decide what i wanted to do to my room when i was 12. it was a toss up between that and a dark purple night sky. it was easier to do the beach theme that i wanted a lot with the orange, so orange it was.

i'm now going to have two shades of sea blue-green on my walls (3 walls a softer color, 1 brighter), a really pale one on my ceiling (which may require primer now, eep, i hope not) and trim, and mostly black accessories. it'll be pretty. :) i'm excited.

[wellowned.livejournal.com]

sounds like love. new colors, i mean.

yeah, my room is all white walls and ceiling, with a shell border at the juncture of wall and ceiling (it goes from about shoulder height to 8 feet at the highest)... comes from not having the ability to decorate your room. new colors