One week into NaClYoHo and this salty pirate is buckling all their swashes! Do I know what that means? No. Assume it's a good thing. I have not slept much, and I am very wired.
This post about the past week feeling like an ADHDx2 speedrun feels VERY ACCURATE.
Point is! Cleaning report!
The bedroom end table has been cleaned off, polished, and set to rights again. Two stacks of books on it and the jewelry box have been relocated. All the tchotchkes have been dusted. The tote in front of it has had many stacks of books and video game cartridge cases removed from on top of it, the paperwork inside has been winnowed and organized, and the books inside have been reduced. The box itself now lives in the corner of the room, which has been newly cleaned out.
The tall rack, which came from a clothing store originally, has mostly just been dusted. It's where I display a lot of nerdy doodads, like enamel pins and badges from conventions I've attended. It also has several windchimes and metalwork art figures, and one area is devoted to mementos of past pets. So nothing really left. I did finally attach a few more pins that had still been in bags. I'm starting to run out of room on the pirate windsock streamers I use for that. Thus, a set of Eevee fanart pins have been attached along the edge of one curtain instead. Very cute. I just stood there chanting "happy~!" for a while after arranging them.
The craft supplies in the corner have merely been moved around--they won't get relocated until I tackle the storage bench in the living room, which is a ways off. The costume elements have been hung up, though, and the handle of the ax that lives there has been polished. (I have so much weaponry in my room, I sometimes forget just how much it looks like a disheveled armory in here.)
The spare blankets have either been added to the bed (so chilly lately!) or stashed away.
Thus is the south-west quadrant defeated!
Moving to the north-east quadrant, I have also overcome the dresser, which I expected to take way more time than it did. The whole top was cleared,dusted--jesusfuck, the soot sprites had taken over up there--polished and partially rearranged. The photo frames and ceramic figures are all back in their normal places. The fringe lamp has been slightly repositioned. Some miscellaneous papers have been tossed out. I polished the brass dish, which had become a junk drawer.
The biggest change, though, is that the sand babies have been taken out of their customary drawstring bag home and put on display in the brass dish. The sand babies are little fabric figures filled with sand, which I bought for many years from a particular booth at the county fair where I used to live. They're mostly lizards, turtles, and snakes, though there's also one frog and a couple of dragons. And all but four of them are representations of characters from Yu Yu Hakusho (the others are Harry Potter and Gundam Wing). Back when I was in high school, I decided to start picking out sand babies with fabric patterns that seemed fitting for the characters. I started with the main team, but I just kept adding more as the years went on, bringing in allies, rivals, and enemies of note. The collection is 35 pieces strong now. They've always brought me a lot of joy, but I've mostly kept them in that bag to keep them safe. Now they're all nicely displayed in the huge brass bowl where I can see them every day.
The corner next to the dresser has also been dusted and vacuumed. The old cat fountain, unplugged for many years, has been taken out to storage.
I've listened to 3.5 episodes of King Falls AM, January 1-19 of the 2018 season of Hidden Almanac, and several of the Halloween horror episodes of Game Grumps. I spent about five and a half hours across the week on cleaning. My hands smell of wood polish. I will by dying of sneezing as well.
Happy~!
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