Cleaning

Last week I ran out of work to do, and so I've been hanging out here at home. Taking advantage of the downtime, I've made it my mission to clean a little.

Or perhaps a lot.

You see, in general I have no difficulty ignoring junk. If a pile of paper sits around for month or so it becomes part of the background, and I really don't notice it anymore. But eventually it'll occur to me, hmm, I wonder if I ought to look through that.

But, as part of the new reduced clutter regime, I've decided to get organized. I'm applying a ruthless standard to magazines (read it and pitch it...unless it's lawyer related.) Folders and binders are now the framework for all important paperwork. In fact, for the first time since moving to Pittsburgh in Nov. 1997 all of my critical paperwork is now in one place and sorted in a useful way (back then I was only organized because I had far fewer important docs.)

So far the living room is farthest along, then the kitchen, the spare bedroom, then my bedroom and finally the bathroom (untouched, so far.) I think I need to buy some dusters.

In plant news I just planted Basil seeds I harvested last March in a clay pot. In the other pot I put in the last of last years nasturtium seeds. In a larger plastic pot I put some daffodil bulbs. Outdoors the dirt on top of the Sedum Matrona is starting to crack. I suspect that means a few early leaves are ready to pop through (even though it's still too cold--any shoot that did poke through will die off.)