Shattered Sun

I’ve not posted because I’ve been cleaning out my house this weekend. Well, I started the process anyhow. It looks like a tornado hit my living room and my bedroom. The bedroom because my bedroom doubles as my storage room. Don’t ask me why. It shouldn’t, I know. But anyhow, the living room got hit because I needed more room to go through everything and decide what to keep, what to throw, and what to donate. Most of the items that need donating are clothes. I haven’t gotten that far, but I already know that’s the case. It’s going good though. I never realized how much junk I kept in my closet, etc until I started going through it all. I’ve been able to empty a lot of boxes and throw them out along with a bunch of items that are of no value to anyone other than me. I’ve also been shredding papers like mad. I’m sure identity theft isn’t a nice thing to go through so I figured I’d try to prevent it in the ways that I could.

Anyway, hopefully I can get at least the living room spic-n-spac by tomorrow because Carrie’s coming over. I’ll probably just close off my bedroom temporarily and leave it the way it is. I know, that’s not good but if I put everything away, I won’t be motivated to pull it all out again.

There are probably a million versions of Monopoly but the one that most interests me is the Here & Now edition that’s coming up. You can go to the Monopoly site and vote for your favorite landmarks. From there they’ll be incorporated into the game and well, I think it’s going to be pretty cool. I’d probably buy it just to own it though I don’t know if I’d actually play it. I guess that’s the thing about Monopoly: I love the boring original kind. Although I am tempted to buy the Terrors Monopoly Jr. Would probably be a good game for them to get into.

Anyway, go check it out and vote if you want. Don’t forget Phoenix!

And merely because I’m too lazy to be bothered with reuploading all my photos again. It’s only 500-odd, but that’s still more than I care to deal with. In the meantime, I’ve been working on multiple projects tonight, one of which is my photo section. So if you go and it looks strange, that’s why. The other projects have been Rachel’s site (new theme), Joey’s site (phpNuke), and the three hours of straight research into making coppermine do what I want it to do. I think I’ve figured out my game plan, even if I haven’t quite figured out the details. I’m hoping that once I make one theme on my site work with both Coppermine and Wordpress, I’ll be able to get any new themes to follow suit. It’s really becoming time that I created another theme for y’all to choose from. I’m tired, so I think I’ll head to bed. And dang, phpNuke takes forever to upload. Ugh.

At least that’s what I think you’d call this. I’m trying to clean up my act, as it were. It’s not that I’m overly messy or dirty or anything like that. I’m just fighting a constant battle with clutter and my packrat nature. I want to keep everything. Because you know, you never know what you might need that one of a kind angel looking thing. Yeah, I know that’s sad. That’s what I really think though. I have to fight the urge to keep every little paper that the Terrors bring home to me. I would scrap book, but I definitely don’t have the time for that along with the other eight million things I’m doing.

I’ve also done some cleaning of my time. I’ve started limiting my game playing time because I’m finding that it eats into everything else I’m trying to get done. So, right now I only log into CoH/CoV two or three times a week, Pogo when I’m working on weekly challenges, and Puzzle Pirates about one hour every couple of days. It means that I don’t make a lot of progress in my games but I figure that there is a trade off for everything.

I guess that I’m hoping that by doing this cleaning of the areas of my life I’ll find more balance. Balance is a key for me. And I think that it’s helping a little bit. J says that I’m definitely showing more happiness recently. So I hope it’s working. It’s a work in progress. I’ll let you know how it goes when I’m further into it.