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wander_realtaiI'm a slob.
That's no secret to those who have lived with me. It's not something I'm particularly proud of. On occasion, I get intense Cleaning Urges, and throw myself headfirst into Marathon Cleaning Sessions, often complete with rearranged furniture, three-week back strains, and questions about why a herd of elephants is stomping around upstairs.
Seriously, though, on most days I'm doing good to make my bed or put away the laundry I washed a week ago. I have a bookshelf, but most of my books somehow end up stacked in haphazard, precarious towers on any available surface. I actually have a rather comical looking stack next to my dresser in my bedroom consisting of two rather large suitcases and about... (counts) six or seven books. It falls over sometimes. I usually put them back exactly like they were. My work desk? It has a bunch of dvds and a couple of games-- they're fanned out and scattered like a whirlwind crossed them.
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yuki_onnais embarking on a very public journey of Unfucking her life. This is based on the Tumblr blog "Unfuck Your Habitat" about, well, taking control of your environment and habits. In reading her Girl Unlocked blog, I'm seeing a lot of my own habits spelled out in another creative person's life. Very interesting. Very inspiring, in both the fact that a) I'm not the only one who has these bad habits, and b) Another person with these same bad habits is making effort to change these habits and improve her overall quality of life. Also c) Someone else has incredibly unreliable motivation and creative energy and tends to marathon creative work sessions rather than spread out manageable amounts of work over each day. Good gods, do I have that problem. And I'm in a downward spiral right now. In a week or two, I'll be working twelve, thirteen hour days because I get absolutely manic with it and will be quite literally incapable of NOT doing so.
So, that's interesting. I'm not quite ready to embark on the public, blow-by-blow description of how I'm unfucking my life. But I am ready, I think, to start taking small steps. There are a few bare essential things that I do every day-- mostly cooking meals and washing dishes. I also clean off the countertops and stove, though to varying degrees of thoroughness. Today, I'm going to hang up my laundry, and clean the kitchen and downstairs bathroom floors. And the downstairs bathtub. I might tackle my book stacks and those precarious suitcases, but we'll see. And I will devote at least a couple hours to artwork, even if I end up scrapping it afterwards (I always hate my own work when I'm in this frame of mind).
So, wish me luck!
That's no secret to those who have lived with me. It's not something I'm particularly proud of. On occasion, I get intense Cleaning Urges, and throw myself headfirst into Marathon Cleaning Sessions, often complete with rearranged furniture, three-week back strains, and questions about why a herd of elephants is stomping around upstairs.
Seriously, though, on most days I'm doing good to make my bed or put away the laundry I washed a week ago. I have a bookshelf, but most of my books somehow end up stacked in haphazard, precarious towers on any available surface. I actually have a rather comical looking stack next to my dresser in my bedroom consisting of two rather large suitcases and about... (counts) six or seven books. It falls over sometimes. I usually put them back exactly like they were. My work desk? It has a bunch of dvds and a couple of games-- they're fanned out and scattered like a whirlwind crossed them.
So, author
yuki_onnais embarking on a very public journey of Unfucking her life. This is based on the Tumblr blog "Unfuck Your Habitat" about, well, taking control of your environment and habits. In reading her Girl Unlocked blog, I'm seeing a lot of my own habits spelled out in another creative person's life. Very interesting. Very inspiring, in both the fact that a) I'm not the only one who has these bad habits, and b) Another person with these same bad habits is making effort to change these habits and improve her overall quality of life. Also c) Someone else has incredibly unreliable motivation and creative energy and tends to marathon creative work sessions rather than spread out manageable amounts of work over each day. Good gods, do I have that problem. And I'm in a downward spiral right now. In a week or two, I'll be working twelve, thirteen hour days because I get absolutely manic with it and will be quite literally incapable of NOT doing so.So, that's interesting. I'm not quite ready to embark on the public, blow-by-blow description of how I'm unfucking my life. But I am ready, I think, to start taking small steps. There are a few bare essential things that I do every day-- mostly cooking meals and washing dishes. I also clean off the countertops and stove, though to varying degrees of thoroughness. Today, I'm going to hang up my laundry, and clean the kitchen and downstairs bathroom floors. And the downstairs bathtub. I might tackle my book stacks and those precarious suitcases, but we'll see. And I will devote at least a couple hours to artwork, even if I end up scrapping it afterwards (I always hate my own work when I'm in this frame of mind).
So, wish me luck!
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Date: 2012-02-24 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 04:17 pm (UTC)LOL I hung up my laundry and made my bed yesterday. I didn't get to the floors and tub. Lazy Amy is lazy! Maybe today will be better. I'm not sure. I haven't had coffee yet. Why do coffee makers always take forever?