Bit of Ivory

Well, my weekend was pretty good. I did a whole lot of nothing especially fun. Watched Monk on Friday night. And. . .that’s about it. Cleaned my room. It’s now only a half-disaster area. I’ve got lots of things to put away but no where to put them yet, so I’m going through my closets and throwing out stuff that I don’t really need but have been keeping around for sentimental reasons. Like, letters from people I barely knew from various girls camps. Invitations to 4.0 luncheons from my senior year of high school. Etc.

I had a few weepy moments. For instance, my great grandmother used to give all the great-grandchildren a $2 bill for Christmas. The past few years I’ve kept them rather than spending them, just in case she wasn’t around the next time. When I got a new one from her, I’d spend the old one.

I found 2 $2 bills in cleaning. I don’t know which one is the most recent. I’m keeping them both. I’ll never get another one now.

I also found two birthday cards– one signed “Grandma and Grandpa By”. Then this year’s, signed just “Grandma By.”

I kept them both.

It’s funny. I’ll go a long time without thinking of my grandfather, but then something will remind me and it all hits me again, just like when he was dying. Saturday, cleaning my room, was one of those times.

Anyway, I threw out a whole bunch of high school stuff that just wouldn’t scrapbook well and that I haven’t looked at or thought of in years. I kept a lot of small things, though– tickets to school dances, a report card. Just enough to remind me, but not so much that my room is overflowing with high school deletrius. I also threw out a bunch of notebooks filled with notes from college classes I didn’t really enjoy anyway, and stuff like that. I still have a few shelves to go, and then I need to clean out my clothes for the third time this year. There’s a lot of stuff in there that’s too small for me now, but is still in good shape, and will be good for when I finally lose the weight I’ve been saying I’ll lose all year. I need to store it somewhere OTHER than my closet, because I currently don’t have room for the clothes I actually *do* wear.

And of course, all of this cleaning is in preparation for moving out at the end of the month. *sigh*

In other news, I don’t know how much I’m going to be online this week. We’ve got a major push going on, which will require overtime– how much I’m not sure, but I’ll certainly have a few later evenings than normal. Time and a half is good, though. Very good. There’s this thing called tuition, you see. *sigh*