As most of you know, I'm extremely organized. Well, I guess organized isn't quite the right word, but anal, and obsessive compulsive is. Since I have had my dolls my office has undergone many, and I mean many transformations. It's housed a full size one inch scale doll house that was bigger than my first apartment. It has had several tons of trash thrown out, and considering this room is roughly 12x12 if that, I wonder exactly where has all of this trash come from and where does it reside? I should have taken stock in Glad Trash bags. Needless to say, it gets a seasonal clearing. Well this last time, I seriously had to make room for more of my scrap booking supplies. Not only does Little Man have several scrap books and memory holders, so do my dolls, or they will.
Just before Christmas, I decided to throw out stuff from my top shelves in the closest and boy, what a hull I found. I still had ceramic supplies left around from at least 10 years ago. Box of feathers from when I first made my first craft project of hand done masks. I haven't touched a feather or a mask in at least eight years. And just numerous boxes of useless materials. Buttons, divided in colors, stuck in little bags, and labeled even. I CAN'T SEW, SO WHAT THE HELL DO I HAVE EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW OF BUTTONS FOR?????
With taking this latest load of five trash bags down to the garage, I walked past FireHoths room. The door to this room has been closed for at least eight months. How peculiar. On my way back up to my room, I took the chance and opened the door. I wasn't quite sure what I would find; horse head, bodies, stash of money, porn, the list is endless. But what I found was just his fetish of collecting coins. Lots of coins and lots of sci-fi books, but strewn all over the room. Hello, do you remember who you live with. Hence the door being closed. Both rooms are the same size, and we've been here for the same amount of time, and yet my room has gone through hundreds of transformation. I started to think what it would be like to have TWO ROOMS, or one big room for my dolls, and scrap booking supplies, which is starting to look like Archivers, (hint, hint, my favorite store, next to the doll store).
Well, while thinking about this, I had come downstairs to go and start bringing up the Christmas decorations from the basement. Now the basement is nice. Completely done and with a bedroom and bathroom. But since it is the basement, underground basically, it's friggen cold down there. Now in the summertime, that's not a bad thing, but in the winter, we'd have to run the heater 24/7 at 75 degrees to make it at least 68/69 degrees. Yeah, I don't see that happening anytime soon. But the bedroom that is down there, is lovely. Huge closet, two huge windows with pretty good light, and lots, and LOTS OF ROOM. HMMMM, my mind started to wander, go figure. Could I use the basement bedroom as my new office??? Well, yeah of course. But the main problem here is that it's in the basement. I can't hear anything that goes on down there. When I'm upstairs, I can hear when someone is walking around down two flights of steps, but down there, I can't here what Little Man might be up to, and by the time I'd have to run up both flights of steps, I could very well die of a coronary. So the best and most practice thing to do is, let FireHoth have the basement, and it can be a complete MAN CAVE, and I take the two upstairs rooms as mine.
Now this would be all simple if that's all that had to be done. But NOOOOOO, the basement must be cleared out first. That means getting rid of or at least scaling down a lot of Little Man's items. This is sad, because this means that any brother or sister coming in the near future has been put on hold. SO EVERYONE WHO KEEPS ASKING US, CAN NOW STOP. My need for organization is more important than giving him a sibling. Then all of FireHoth's stuff needs to be moved down. This would be easy also, if there wasn't so much stuff; books, coins, books, more books, more coins. Then that room needs to get painted. DONE, already got the quote. Yeah for me. Then new bookcase need to come into play, got quotes for those also, AAGGGHHH banging head on walls. Then they need to be decorated, all of my dolly stuff moved over, then my old room cleared out, and on and on and on. So I'm pretty sure this will take up till at least March to get done. I just love a good clean out.
Before/during shot of my room, looking towards the window, then from window towards door. And same in FireHoth's room.
Monday: Updated pictures.
