January 9, 2003

• Something…. silly….(?)

  
  

  The cartoon closet
  Today, I’m house cleaning. Not the superficial, make-the-place-presentable-in-the-places-that-show kind of cleaning. I’m talking deep-closet cleaning. I’m sure everyone has one of those catch-all closets – at least, I’d like to believe I’m not the only one who does this. It’s the place where lost treasures, empty bottles/cans, and things that you’re sure will come in handy some day go. Mine has been pretty disorganized for a while (and the “Understatement of the Year Award” goes to…), but I didn’t fully realise how dire the closet situation was until last week when my mother was visiting. I went to pull out the foam mattress we throw on the hide-a-bed to make it more comforable and a shower of cans and curses came with it. I turned around to my mother’s laughter and the comment “That sounds like a closet from a cartoon!”
  

  
  

  After this morning, the cartoon closet is no more… At least for the time-being. I have organized all the empties, collapsed all the empty boxes, thrown out some junk, and restacked everything in a more orderly fashion. I really don’t think I’ll miss the clatter of cans as I try to sift through the clutter of that closet.
  

  • 8:55 pm
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