Psychotomy

well, the month-s long tirade of cleaning is ending soon. b/c the baby’s coming soon and time will be more limited :o

but this weekend was, basically, the last giant push. started off b/c my sister in law is coming up and we volunteered the futon as a bed. the futon is in the back room. the back room has been the dumping point for everything else in the house (and it bears noting that everything but the kitchen has been done, and the kitchen has too but it has more temporary clutter than entrenched mess) … 9 months of stuff getting shoved in. plus the reflooring of the living room pushed a bunch more in.

and saturday evening i took my life in my hands and went in :o about an hour in, K tried to come see what i was doing. came running up and … stopped. looked at the mess, then went back to kiir with a look like ‘mommy, daddy’s dead isn’t he?’ :o took me about 4 hours before i went around and worked my way clear again. and 3 big bags of trash. putting 4 boxes of books out of boxes and stacked on shelves (completely unusably) cleared up some space.

then sunday i decided to get under the stairs and organize that closet so i could put some stuff in there from the back. except that closet is filled with various comptuer bits (everything but the sun’s and the sun monitor joined the trash brigade) and lawn stuff .. crap. then i started working on the unfinished room to clear out some near the furnace (where the most recent clutter is) so i could put in the lawn stuff …

took me a lot of the weekend, but the basement is navigable and the futon is near-usable (there’s a tv on it, but i can move that ok). a lot more work to be done, but reasonably started. probably work on it more tonight and tomorrow. it may also be kindof a thing to do to get away some. after everyone GOES HOME in two weeks!!!

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