I am celebrating Memorial Day by shredding a metric crapton of paperwork. I can't believe how much has built up in just a year, because I know I did this before we left Georgia. My office looks like a snowstorm has hit from all the little shreddies that escape when I empty the shredder bin.
Someone asked if I was ready for the packers to come next week. Is anyone ever really ready? I have no idea. I've done a lot of sorting and organizing and deciding. I have gone through every skein of yarn that I can find, trying to put it all in some sort of order. One of my yarn dressers is going into storage, so I have found other places for those yarns. Many of you will not be shocked by this, but holy crap - I have a LOT of yarn.
This drawer contains yarn that I have enough of to make sweaters out of. There's Cascade Heathers, Karabella something, Berrocco DK wool, and some Valley Yarns cotton blend that I was going to make the Tomato sweater with. This is an absolutely horrible photo, but I want to point something out.
All these yarns are some shade of purple. The ones that look reddish are really more burgundy/wine colored. And I found 2 more sweater quantities of yarn in another box and can you guess what color they are? Purple. Why do I have enough yarn to make 6 purple sweaters? I would like one or even two purple sweaters, but 6? It's enough to make me want to order some green and blue yarn right this minute. Except I'd just have to find a place for it and that's hard enough with what I already own.
On that note, I have sadly reached the end of the time that I can order stuff. Unless I pay for expedited shipping, I'm afraid it won't get here on time. That doesn't mean I can't have it sent to my father's house, but no more ordering to El Paso. I hope my shoes I ordered last week show up soon. Do you know about www.6pm.com? Oh my. They have a different brand of shoes dirt cheap nearly everyday. They had Clarks last week for $20! I love the way Clarks fit my big feet, but they are usually closer to $80. There may be 2 or 3 pairs on the way here.
Okay, back to the organizing. The part I hate is figuring out which things and documents are so important that they should travel with us and which things we can risk getting packed and not seeing for months. And finding that important stuff means digging in the file cabinet, which will mean finding more to shred. Let's hope I don't accidentally shred anything important like I did last year with the umm....credit card. Oops.
I have been on 6pm.com, yet I've never bought anything off there. They do have hella cute shoes though!
Posted by: Melissa | May 26, 2009 at 08:01 AM