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cleaning house

Bazowie, this week’s Frazzle Me Friday is gonna be good! Thanks for your suggestions.

I finally tackled something I had been avoiding for months: my filing cabinet. Two of its three drawers — office supplies, pens and stationery — are completely cleaned out and organized. I’m still in a bit of shock that this is Done. It’s good shock, though. The kind without internal trauma.

Next up: filing. Blark.

I changed the theme of cygnoir.net. Back to black on white. Words over fancy. Always.

Maybe that’s a response to meeting some excellent new people lately, people who can see past the whateverness and get to the soft chewy center of meaning. People who don’t mind that it’s a 90% chance of Frank Sinatra in here, with a low-pressure Bing front moving in. Come fly with me, baby.

The coolest thing about having a malfunctioning 0 key is that everything gets bigger. 1 becomes 10 then 100 then 1000 and then on. Even parentheses turn into an ocean ebbing away.

When life hands me lemons, I make lem00000000000000000nade.

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  • David

    One of the things I’ve learned about keys going bad is you never realize how much you use a particular character until you can’t have that one anymore :-)

  • David

    One of the things I’ve learned about keys going bad is you never realize how much you use a particular character until you can’t have that one anymore :-)

  • Rebecca

    Re: Filing. I came up with a new system a few years ago that I adore. It’s called ‘boxes’ and the categories are time. I usually used shoe boxes but you could get nice legit storage boxes for aesthetic effect. Each box gets a 6-month time period and all assorted papers that must be saved go in the box. Usually bills but also shopping receipts, instruction manuals, whatever. On the infrequent occasion that I actually need something out of one of the boxes, it’s usually not hard to recollect which 6-month period it came from and then dig through. And then, old boxes can be moved under the bed and if you don’t take it out for a year, toss the whole box. I used to sort all my papers by subject in a filing cabinet but I got sick of deciding on categories and then sorting through them to clean out old stuff. Your boxes could be 4- or 3-month size depending on your quantity of saving. These days, I don’t get any mail or bills so the system is temporarily suspended. Hugs.

  • Rebecca

    Re: Filing. I came up with a new system a few years ago that I adore. It’s called ‘boxes’ and the categories are time. I usually used shoe boxes but you could get nice legit storage boxes for aesthetic effect. Each box gets a 6-month time period and all assorted papers that must be saved go in the box. Usually bills but also shopping receipts, instruction manuals, whatever. On the infrequent occasion that I actually need something out of one of the boxes, it’s usually not hard to recollect which 6-month period it came from and then dig through. And then, old boxes can be moved under the bed and if you don’t take it out for a year, toss the whole box. I used to sort all my papers by subject in a filing cabinet but I got sick of deciding on categories and then sorting through them to clean out old stuff. Your boxes could be 4- or 3-month size depending on your quantity of saving. These days, I don’t get any mail or bills so the system is temporarily suspended. Hugs.

  • http://emilyann.vox.com emily

    I once went through a period of making “leonade”. It’s a lesser known beverage usually made exclusively by people born in August. Or of people born in August, I can’t remember.

  • http://emilyann.vox.com emily

    I once went through a period of making “leonade”. It’s a lesser known beverage usually made exclusively by people born in August. Or of people born in August, I can’t remember.

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