Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - Things I found while cleaning
Greetings, Earthlings!
I'm sure you're on the edge of your seats, but allow me to give a brief introduction.
My alias is Mantirwen, and I'm a packrat. (Hi, Mantirwen.) Over the years people - usually members of my family would tell me I had a problem. I didn't want to admit it because because I didn't want to let go of the things I'd collected around me. But, through no fault of my own, I ended up maturing over the years. I really realized I had a problem when I considered the idea of moving. Now, we don't know for sure if we'll move, but at this point in my life, even the idea was enough to make me look around and go, "Wow... I don't want to move all this stuff."
So, without further ado, I present some of the highlights of my clutter-weeding over the past week or so.
-A whole lot of dolls and stuffed animals from storage. Some of them I didn't remember even on sight. Yeah.
-Small, rectangular slips of paper on the floor of my closet. Perhaps once destined to be tickets, but discarded in a fit of memory loss?
-Some things I'd forgotten I had but still don't want to get rid of. Like the figurine that used to be my sister's, the one of the Indian - er, Native American - on a horse shooting his bow. I used to think it was so cool. And for some reason I can't part with it.
-Dolls with hair falling off. And some of those I can't bear to part with either. *sigh* Maybe someday.
-You know those drinks that come in the little plastic barrels? Well, apparently I once thought they were cool. I found on in a toy box. That I could part with.
-I finally read this Illustrated Classics edition of The Count of Monte Cristo. More interesting than I expected. But talk about depressing! Yeah, didn't need that around. I don't even remember when I got it...
-You'll love this. In my closet, in a plastic storage box, I found... drumroll, please... candy wrappers! I'd forgotten I had them. There were at least four sandwich bags full of them. I was glad to be alone in the house, because I could talk to myself. I said "wow" a lot over that one. :)
If you happened upon this blog and read that... well... I'm sorry. Gather up your shreds of sanity, flee, and never come near this place again. Unless of course you don't mind the insanity. :)
Comments
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Raquel
At least you finally understand why I wanted to strangle you sometimes back then... :-D
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Mantirwen
You wanted to strangle me?!?! I'm shocked, utterly shocked! Little ol' me? With my pretty candy wrappers which I would have willingly shared with you? :-D