Woohoo! I finished cleaning my office! It’s something that I’ve been meaning to do since October and I finally bit the bullet and did it. The desk now actually has some elbow room, and a glistening surface because I even Pledged (mmm, orange scented) it. Not only that, but I actually went through my file cabinet! Now that’s something I’ve been meaning to do since 2005 (and desperately needed to do since I graduated with my B.A.)! I cleaned out things from the year 2000 in that file cabinet. And even found my high school transcripts (yes, I was an odd teenager who filed away her medical and school related papers)!

With the file cabinet cleaned out, I finally had space for my critiqued manuscripts. I’ve recently joined a critique group and now that I’ve got work coming in with critique, I need to file them away so I can easily find them when I need to edit. And since the file cabinet was in such dismal shape (three of the cabinets had old junk in it like old notebooks) I was just stacking the papers on my desk. I still have one cabinet with things that I’ve been meaning to put into the photo album and one cabinet with some books I need to go through, but now my writing stuff has it’s very own cabinet!

Not only that, but I dismantled the tree today and John and I lugged it to the TreeCycle program. That was kind of a pain because we have a Saturn SL2, which is a very small car, and by the time we jammed the tree in the back seat (we didn’t want to tie it to the top like we did when we brought it home because we didn’t have any rope left) I couldn’t see out of the rear window and the tip of the tree stuck out the side-rear window by about 2 feet. I know, not very safe for driving. But I took it slow and we made it pretty easily to the TreeCycle center (which was just an undeveloped area of a park with a huge heap of Christmas trees littering the ground). The only heart-stopping moment was when a police car passed us. I gritted my teeth and thought, Crap, not being able to see out the rear window and having a Christmas tree sticking out has got to be illegal somehow. But thank the powers that be, the cop car just kept going.

The pile of Christmas trees was a little sad, especially when our tree was added onto it. John and I have never been able to A) afford our own Christmas tree or B) had the space for it ever before, this is the first year we’ve had a Christmas tree. Seeing that huge pile of trees…it made me a little melancholy. And it also made me want to jump into that pile and come out smelling like pine, but the pine needles would have scratched me (I already got a few scratches on my back when we were carrying the tree to the car, somehow) so I resisted the urge.

So, all-in-all, today has been a VERY productive day. Tomorrow I get to back up everything on my old computer and begin cleaning it out so I can give it to Mom (so she can finally have her own computer instead of thinking of using Dad’s and then deciding that’s too much of a bother). Then, I’m setting up my new computer and the first thing I’m doing is playing Sims 2 and whimpering in delight when full graphics and anti-aliasing doesn’t slow it down.

And yes, I know that this probably doesn’t interest anyone besides me in the slightest, but I’m pretty damn proud of myself. And organizing my filing cabinet was one of my New Year’s Resolutions, so I’m doing pretty good this year. Now all I need to do is clean and restock the fish tank and buy some new bookshelves.

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