I’ve been quite busy in RL and not getting as much play time as normal. Here’s the scoop. I really need to get organized and more presentable. I haven’t ever been good at being a neat person, but used to be quite fickle about my hair growing up. The part had to be just right, including that spiral in the back. I was late to school a couple of times because I had a “surfer’s curl” barrel wave in the back when I was about 12 years old.
Anyhoo. My room is somewhat messy. It’s been WAY way wayyyy worse, but I’d like to get everything in its place, toss stuff I won’t move out with me, and basically fumigate it for anything that may have decided to take up residence with me. That shouldn’t take too long.
My nagging problems that are always staring me in the face are my car and my general appearance. I think both will be easy to improve, but will just take a little extra time. As for my car, when I go out in the morning, I usually have an extra shirt or papers or something that I might want for the day. Every day I go out with my girlfriend, I’m sure to get a carry-out cup that goes in the console. What I don’t do is take my shirt in at night or throw the cup away. The next time I get a drink, I empty the old cup and put it behind my seat. I have a 4-door sedan. This allows for a lot of cups. I need a viable trash bag/can/incinerator solution for when I’m driving. I can’t be turning around throwing stuff away, but I can’t be all up in her space on the passenger side, either. Hmmm.
My appearance. That’s simple. I just need to make sure my eyelashes are debris-free, my beard is neat (I just trimmed it 1/8″ short), and that my clothes are wrinkle-free. That is the big thing. If I don’t take the clothes out of the dryer right away and hang them up, they will still be wrinkled when I put them on. Not badly enough to warrant an ironing to me, but it drives her up the wall when I’m out and about all day, then she sees me and wonders how many people saw my wrinkled clothes. My defense is that no one from work ever says anything about my clothes, but she’s probably right that they can’t talk to me like that, so they just don’t say anything.
So, getting this stuff straightend out is taking some time away from WoW, but I will get some good play time tonight.
I found that carpooling has really helped my car-cleanliness thing. I used to have a 2-door car and I used the whole back seat as a garbage bin, but now that I have a 4 door car and I’m trading rides to karate classes with 2 of my fellow karateka, I have more incentive to keep the place clean.
And my apartment, I’d invite “new friends” over, the ones where I was still in the “being good” stage instead of the “being me no matter what” one… part of that being good stage would include wanting to have a presentable place.
My husband doesn’t agree with what motivates me, says I should be motivated differently, but hey, it works!! And in the end, if you want a clean place, you find out what works and do it ๐
Valdesta
Company over does have a certain motivation, I admit.
I just found out my grandparents are coming next week, so now I get to clean the hallway “drop-off” area too, LOL.
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