Sunday Scatterbrain

Just some slightly scattered thoughts this weekend:

• I’ve been sorting and organizing the HECK out of all of my stuff these last several days, and I’m coming across so many memories. Stuff from my trips to Romania, old birthday cards, graduation cards, and notes from friends… It’s been fun, although also incredibly draining. And I am FINALLY getting through a box full of paperwork that has moved with me probably six times and Never. Been. Touched. Let me just say, though I’m sure it’s not surprising, that at least 75% of that stuff was TRASH.
• Last night while I was still totally in the organizing zone, I felt the first Sure Sign of a Migraine — which is where my vision gets weird and I have this little blind spot toward the lower right quadrant of everything I look at. I got up immediately and took some Aspirin, and within a minute of doing that, the squiggly lines started. I knew I had no choice but to be done for the night. Thankfully, the actual PAIN part of it — the migraine headache — came and went in a matter of half an hour or so. But it still took a lot out of me, and I’ve been fuzzy all day today. In fact, I feel like my vision might go wonky again at any moment, but I’m hoping it’s just my eyes adjusting to a computer screen, since I’ve been all over the place today.
• This is mostly for my own records, but because of all this sorting and organizing, I’m checking off portions of a few more 101 items. Namely, number 002, which says I have to go through my closet once every six months, and number 007, which says that I’ll get rid of at least 20 books. Yesterday I cleared out about a quarter (maybe even a third) of my closet and drawers, and I went through ALL of my books and eliminated probably close to 40. So #007 is officially DONE, and it wasn’t as painful as I thought it’d be. Mostly I got rid of books I had “inherited” from one place or another without really considering whether I might actually want to read them. (I also learned, while going through all my books, that I have approximately 1,372 journals, 60% of which have about the first 10-20 pages written in but are otherwise completely blank. Then 35% are TOTALLY blank, just waiting to be filled, and the remaining 5% are the only ones with a substantial amount of pages filled. I have ONE — yes, exactly and only ONE — journal that is filled from front to back, and that’s my journal from my 2007 Romania trip.)
• I did six loads of laundry today. Yes, even after clearing out a third of my entire wardrobe, I still had six loads’ worth of DIRTY clothes, on top of all the clothes that I kept that were clean. And yet I never seem to have anything to wear.
• I’m really looking forward to taking a day off work (hopefully next week) to do nothing but BEAD. I need it. And so does Cari.
• The always lovely Nora is having a Blogoversary Giveaway and I seeeeriously want to win. But it would be pretty awesome if any of my other bloggy friends won it, too — so check it out! And be sure to look around Nora’s site, because she is seriously one of my favorite people on the PLANET, and we all know I have extremely good taste in bloggers.
• My computer appears to be stuck in a file-copying process right now. I found a CD with pictures from the aforementioned Romania 2007 trip, which were taken by one of the Hungarian people we met there, and it has said “36 files (out of 400+) remaining” for the last ten minutes. Bah.
• I wish I had something more exciting or creative to say, but yesterday’s migraine seriously did me in. I feel like I have had to be really careful all day NOT to do anything to aggravate my brain, and this whole Sitting in Front of a Screen with Tiny Black Writing is not exactly making my head feel like puppies and butterflies. I guess that’s my cue to go put away my laundry, make my bed, heat up some frozen meatballs and call it a night. Maybe I can con the hubster into watching 27 Dresses with me…
• Okay, I’m not THAT delusional. (Although I did totally try to spell that “dillusional” and wouldn’t have thought twice if WordPress hadn’t given me the red line underneath it…)