la_samtyr | And In Other News...

This pretty much sums up the attitude my furkids have of me now, ever since I was going through stuff and I found a bunch of old baby/doll clothes. The cats are less than thrilled (and btw, no -- that is not a pic of either one of my cats) but Naz is quite willing to put up with an absurd amount of such nonsense, provided there are enough treats, pettins, and talk of: "what a good little man! see how handsome he is? good boy! good little man!" Yup, works every time. XD

I've had a friend who is helping me clean up stuff -- far too much has just 'sat' ever since my Mom passed on back in '04, and at first I was just too upset/depressed to do it. Then it became an issue of finding someone I could actually trust to help. Now, at long last, progress is being made. True, it's still a lot of moving things back and forth several times because there have been pockets of either old messed up papers or stuff that has fallen down and needs to be washed (usually clothes). So far we have taken over the local laundromat twice with about a dozen loads each time. Yes, I know. ::facepalms:: It really is that bad. But progress is being made and once the clothes are clean, about half of them are donated to local thrift stores. Some are only fit for cleaning rags, some just go in the garbage and a few I keep. Although the huge bag of my socks that had gotten lost were a very welcome re-find, lol! As for the paper stuff, if it has writing on it, it gets shredded and then in a recycle bag. But if it's 'plain', it goes straight to recycle.

So for now, it's back to cleaning this afternoon, leaving me enough time to do some writing.

Ttyl!