I have too much stuff!

I know this because I spent today doing even more cleaning & organizing in my room and the craft room.  I started off with my room, since I knew once mom came home she’d whine about not being in the same room with me! As I was cleaning off my desk, I came across this note that I took at work:

Creepy corprate guy just came back to the frame shop to tell me something, he’d aparently been helping move the Christmas clearance, since in both fists he clutched handfulls of little red Christmas stockings; with his shiney eyes and strange little smile, he looked like some deranged villian stealing Christmas.

Yes, that moment really was so entertaining that I had to write it down in detail! ~LOL~

Also, while I was putting stuff away, I came across something that really made me miss having long hair, my nifty hair chop sticks.  I used to put my hair up in a bun with those things all the time! Shortly after I got my hair cut, I was in one of those places that sell jewlery and hair accessories, and they were having a sell on hair sticks.  I was standing there picking out the ones I wanted, when it occured to me that I no longer had long hair to put them in!  I like the dumb things so much, I’ve kept them even though I don’t plan on ever having my hair long again. (My hair is so fine that it doesn’t look very good when it’s long!)  So I stuck some of my favorite ones into a pottery mug filled with rocks. (I got the mug at a ceramics conferance I went to last march, it got broken on the way back home, but I had to keep it!)

Eeeewwww… I was just scratching at one of my gallbladder surgery scars, and there’s a little lump under my skin, and I’m all, oh, it’s probably just one of those internal stitches, so I’m rubbing over it and poking at it, and I hear this thread-like popping/snap noise!  Eeeewwwww! ~L~ I’m sure it’s not a big deal, everything’s all healed up, and obviously the stich was weak and disolving away, but it was just, well eeeewwwww! ~L~ (My mom really appreciated hearing that story too, I grossed her out!)

Well, I managed to get a lot of cleaning done, there’s a nice noticable difference in my room and the craft room, so I’m happy! It would be nicer if I’d also taken some time to workout, but I did spend most of the day on my feet, and I don’t feel like I wasted my day.  I did walk around the house a lot, since I’ve never caught on to that nifty idea of putting everything that needs to go into another room in a basket to put away when you’re done cleaning that room.  Nah, I find one little thing and take it right into the other room, so a few minutes later when I find something else that needs to go into the same room, I have to make another trip! Oh, then when I’m putting things away in the other room, I sometimes get distracted with cleaning up something there!

At any rate, I did get a lot done, and I even took some time to pull out the box I have my wedding-dress-to-be material in and ooohed and aahhhhed over it for a while! ~L~ Then I drew a sketch of my dress, and took notes on which trim I wanted where.  I think every time I pull it out I decide where the different trims should go, but I’ve never written it down!  And just because I’m still planning my wedding doesn’t mean that I don’t have every intention of following through with my plan of focusing on me!  I go through these phases where I’ll really get into the wedding mood for a while, so I might as well take advantage of that to do some of the more tedious things. (Like using my 1" wide swirly roller stamp to decorate sheets of vellum that I then fold into thirds and staple with decorative staples (which I also have to rub some white ink onto so the gold isn’t so bright) to make the inner envolope that the invatation goes into.) Yup, I’m crazy, I know!

Oh, right, so about the whole focusing on me thing… ~s~  This obviously includes all the eating right and the whole exercise schedule (which I still haven’t completely followed, but hey, I’ll get there!) and then, basically, I’m just not going to go looking for a guy.  Or I don’t know, maybe I should be more strict with myself, impose a time limit or something.  I would say after losing a certain amount of weight, but I don’t want this to totally be about "I can’t date until I’m thin" I want it to be more than that, but I’m not sure what kind of goals or whatever I should set for myself in this case.  I guess I’ll have to think about it a bit.