Carpet Cleaning

The carpet cleaners came yesterday.

To get ready, I moved the stacks of unsold eBay inventory, shipping supplies, office supplies, almost-but-not-quite-finished crochet and cross stitch projects, investing and stock market research files, 3-year old job hunting papers, outdated computer books, broken computer hardware, Christmas wrapping paper, 15 paperback books that are supposed to go to the used book store, a Super Nintendo game console, a dog chew toy, a pile of dirty laundry, AND a pair of The Big Guy’s jeans that need a button sewn on from my office floor onto the spare room floor.

This is a picture of my desk. Maybe it will help you imagine what the floor usually looks like…


All this moving, just so that the floor of my office could be cleaned.

Now it’s clean! And sort of empty too…

Today I started moving all of the stuff back.

This *inspired* me to start sorting through the boxes and piles to make Keep/Recycle/Throw Out decisions. After a couple of hours of this I had to drop everything and go with The Big Guy to a meeting with a Financial Planner. He needed advice on how optimally arrange his post-severance finances so that he (and I) can keep most of it instead of handing it over to Revenue Canada.

After the meeting I was no longer inspired.

So now I have stacks and stacks of half-sorted stuff piled up in TWO rooms instead of just in one room. I’m further behind than I was before the carpet cleaners came!

And who can tell that the carpets are clean when they’re all covered up with this stuff?