I thought I was productive yesterday, but today put a whole new meaning to the word. Justin and I did a complete 180 on the apartment. I started with the office. I was cleaning off bookshelves and found notes from undergrad. I guess I saved them thinking I would reference them again in the future, or need them at some point in my future career. Riiiight. That would involve me remembering what was in the courses, or the courses themselves, to even think about going back to find something. Not only did I find some of my own old notebooks, but I had one of my freshman roommate Renee's!! I had her economics binder! Yikes - that means that it made 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..... nope - 6 moves! I really need to get better about this.
After accomplishing 4 giant piles of recycling and a huge box of books to take to Goodwill, I decided my desk had spent it's last day. I bought the thing at Walmart my sophmore year, I'm sure it didn't cost me more than $40. The cheap wood was warping from one too many UV Blue and vodka spills, and one of the supporting side panels was barely hanging on. Too much weight on one side could have brought the whole thing down. So I cleaned out the drawers and the cubbys. In the back of the bottom cubby I had a giant bag of highlighters. Not a mix of pens, markers, pencils, but just highlighters. How do I hang onto this crap for so long?!?! And because my aunt works for 3M and provides a generous amount of post-its in our Christmas stockings, I filled a small shoebox with several pads of them. So we took out the desk, and for one moment we had some free space somewhere in our second bedroom. That didn't last long as I transplanted some totes with my Christmas decorations into the corner.
At this point Justin was working on laundry mountain that had erupted in our bedroom. He started dividing old T's into keep and Goodwill piles. Alright! Let's keep this ball rolling! I started going through my closet and drawers. Together we made 8 rather large bags of donations to Goodwill. It took me 4 trips to carry the stuff out to my car - I better drop the stuff off tomorrow or my gas mileage might decrease dramatically. ;)
Justin bought a new computer that hooks up to our TV a couple weeks ago, so the old one that he attempted to fix a couple times was just taking up space in the corner of the living room. I considered it a black hole. Anything that ended up on that desk seemed to vanish forever. So Justin took out his hard drive and decided to donate it to the lab for them to do something with it. Yeah - more space!! We still have his stereo there along with an end table, but still. It looks less cluttered.
I also started a massive project, it may have been too much to take on. Somehow Justin accidentally applied for a subscription to Better Homes and Gardens. It doesn't show up on any bills or statements, and we have been receiving the stupid magazine for probably 3 years now. Along with BH&G I have several old copies of Rachel Ray magazine and other cooking magazines. I've started going through all of them and tearing out the recipes that I want. No one needs to carry 100 lbs of magazines up the Al-can highway. I have a binder and the pocket sheets to organize them. As of now, Rachel Ray is done and about 3/4 of the BH&G is finished. I can't decide if I'm actually going to try to organize them by type of dish yet or not. We'll see how it goes. I just might do the same thing with my Women's Health.... OK, one thing at a time.
I want to find a scanner that I can turn all of my PT school notes into electronic documents, but that may take several weekends on end to accomplish that task.
Despite all this, there are still several things on my list of things to do. Tomorrow night I will be making chocolate cupcakes with chocolate granache and working on some work for the residency. Last week when I was sick a co-worker covered one afternoon for me, so I figured cupcakes would be fair compensation. If they turn out alright, they just might be the next blog!
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