Timing is Every Thing

As the old saying goes Timing is every thing....ahhahahaha  I am the queen of bad timing...  Apparently, the company coming to install our new Murphy bed on surprisingly short notice...( we were quoted late Sept.) but now they can come this coming Tuesday...hahaha I said sure...but am now scrambling to clear the room out...OMG how can one small room hold so much stuff....with no basement or other such storage space that room is the unofficial catch all....so this evening I finally finished and now our bedroom looks the home of a hoarder.....hahahahaha so I sat in here today hooking my computer back up and just kinda got a feel for the whole "can't throw anything out" kind of person...and I still don't get it...why would anyone purposefully keep so much crap that it fills there house...so you can't see the floor, the walls or your furniture...

Now, I will be the first one to admit that I have a bit of a neatness compulsion...I hate clutter and nick knack shit....everything in its place and so on...because even in our most crappy rental house growing up there was never any clutter...both my parents were very neat people...kind of odd really...given how out of control so much else in their life was....and maybe it had a little to do with my Dad's hobby of selling stuff at the second hand store and buying something different...so if you didn't keep it in it's place and tidy, and he noticed it, or noticed you weren't using it it got traded ......hahahaha...

or it could have been that we moved so often that we never had time to accumulate that much stuff.... what ever the reason, I keep a pretty neat house. So the clutter now occupying my room, where I enjoy lots of open space and nicely staged vignettes... is driving me crazy...just a few hours and I am already feeling overwhelmed and oddly depressed...ahahaha  I think I have a serious problem...

I am also worried about tripping over some of it when I get up during the night and walk to the washroom with my eyes closed like I sometimes do...ahahahahah  I have a clear pathway to the bathroom but I tend to wander a bit when I am drowsy...or so R says...my biggest concern is hitting my large easel or the chair with the globe on it...or knocking over my sewing supply container and having spools of thread running all over the floor...ahahahah  I think I will find a night light...

I just have to keep reminding myself that it is only until Wednesday at the latest.....then I will have a wonderful new multi-purpose room to put all the stuff in...

I did have a bit of fun today....while I was cleaning out the room....which I use for sewing, painting, exercising, and a home office,  the old oak desk we bought when we were first married and paid an arm and a leg for...but hated one week after we had it at home....it weighted 300 lb...and was very awkward to sit at...and the drawers were very hard to pull open...well....we tried moving it but I am so useless now...with all my aching joints that I have very little strength, especially after handling the power drill for three days straight building the cattle chute...and drilling holes in the pipe to attach the boards.....whew... so manpower was an issue today. We tried to take it apart conscientiously, thinking we could keep it just in case...but that proved to be a no go...so out came my latest power tool....a Dewalt reciprocating saw....Oh....I love it.... I cut the desk into three pieces....and then we carted it outside to be removed to the dump at a later date....the better pieces of furniture we had in there got put in R's mothers house for storage.... I got a lot of pleasure out of destroying that desk...muuuhahhhahahaha good therapy...

I was a little sad that I had to take down all my paintings....I will put some back up but won't have space for all of them...now I have to choose which ones I like the best....it's like trying to decided which one of your kids you love the most....ahhahaha 

Any way, my butt is going numb from sitting on this hard chair so I'll call it a night....