Sunday Update

Hey all

So I am at the computer lab.

I really want to go home and keep a truckin' on this garage project thingy but my guilty conscience is forcing me to work on a project that I have actually been PAID to do.

This computer lab is open until 9pm tonight, so I am afraid Ur Lyfstyl Ur Desyn is just going to have to wait for now...

BLAH! 2

Aaaaaaaaugh.
Things are slow-going, but at least they are moving in the right direction.
WHY IS EVERYTHING SO CRAZY AND MESSY?
This was not the problem I set out to solve. The problem I set out to solve was about needing to incorporate arts and musics into my life.
However, I'LL BE DARNED if my bedroom doesn't get cleaned up as part of the process.
Also included above is a (very flattering) picture of the situation with the "Dungeon Room" in the garage, and also a (very flattering) picture of the King of Death spider whom we are keeping alive under a large clear rubbermaid container until further notice. The organization proccess HAS already begun, and things are, as I said, moving in the right direction. I can feel it. I just need to get my hands on a few more things that i want.

THINGS I REALLY WANT TO GET TOMORROW:
--Some super gluey super glue.
--Duct Tape
--Masking tape
--SOMETHING AWESOME (Must fall into secret category!)

If I buy all of these things, I will almost definitely put the table together tomorrow evening and I might even do something with that chair! (Ooooh!!!!!!!)

I have work tomorrow mid-day and I also mean to work on some editing that I have to do after that, but I should be able to hit up Fred Meyer's on the way home.

Lots of love from Angelica

BLAH!

Disorganization!
Wasted Space!

I am spoiled.
Nay, I am BLESSED with such a huge and possibility filled living environment.
Can I try not to waste it?
Can I actually take ADVANTAGE of this??

Andrea Zittel has solutions for people with tiny living spaces.
Can I speak to people with lots of space, lots of stuff, and yet disorganization and in-functionality? I DON'T KNOW! I don't know if I can!
I have to see what I can come up with!

Continual Update

For all the people who follow this blog (I'm looking at you, John Park), let's see how I did today.

Hmm. It could have gone worse.
I did go to get some see through rubbermaids.
And I accidentally (just now) started a small argument with my room mate.
This is only related because, as Prof Park pointed out, the room mate issues are a part of this whole thing.
I found out that she has been (consistently?) using drinking cups and mugs as other kinds of cups, to use in her painting or whatever. I would really rather she use something else for that, maybe use jars or plastic cups, and when I told her this, she just sort of responded as if I was being silly, and she was just going to keep doing it (even though 95% of our cups are mine).
In fact, the reason I even found out about this cup thing was that she put some kind of nail polish remover in one of my plastic mugs from farrells and it seems to have had some very horrible negative affect on it. Farrells is closed, which I am still very bitter about, and the fact that I have these two Farrells cups makes me very very happy and to discover that she has abused one thus makes me very disturbed. She was apologetic, as the destruction had been an accident, but when she failed to agree to change her habits, I started getting irritated and complaining about other things, and then of course she felt attacked and started getting on my case about the things that I do wrong.
Well, that was actually what I wanted, because it was a bit humbling to remember that there are these stupid mistakes that I make that irritate her just the way she does to me. Unfortunately, my brain justifies these things, even now, in that I am often out of the house for about 12 hours out of the day, and when I'm home I don't give much attention to those things--just the things that she HASN'T done. She re-affirmed for me today that, in fact, she does not have ANY comittments on Mondays OR Wednesdays this term, so she just gets to be home all day on those days (in addition to Saturdays and Sundays).
I think I'm just jealous.

Also, I'm ridiculously spoiled.

ON TO OTHER TOPICS!
(As if anyone is still reading this)

FINALLY finished doing and putting away these hoardes of laundry.
Well, sort of.
It's hard to explain.
All of this stuff is connected!!
But it's moving in a good direction.
I'm not going to have much more time to work on it until...geeze, probably Saturday night, because tomorrow I have five classes, and on Friday I have 3 classes and 5 hours of work and then I need my nice downtime, and then on Saturday I have vowed to myself that I will FINALLY finish editing that wedding footage that I have been procrastinating on, so I need to actually make that happen this weekend.

Regarding me being sick, I do not have any horrible stay in bed fever sickness, but I do have a really painful sore throat and some coughing and lost voice, and I also feel like I have a little grey cloud floating over my head (at a time when I really feel that I should be very happy and satisfied, so I should not be depressed) which is making me want to just sleep all the time.

Hopefully by next week I will be recharged, and I will have worked on this project some more!
Time is a frustrating beast. All of a sudden I need a heck of a lot more of it!

GAH PATRICK STEWART IS AWESOME
Thanks
Angelica

Like Wow.

I am still sick.

Today I decided not to go to work or to gospel choir...this was DEFINITELY the right choice.
I also took a nap for a couple hours which was also the right choice.
...somehow I wrecked my lunch though. I think I had the burner on too hot.
It hardly mattered in the grand scheme of things because I'm sick, so I couldn't taste it, so it isn't like I was going to enjoy it anyway.

I might go to the store and look at some clear bins today.

Ughhh

I have felt so tired and sick today...yesterday I was getting sick but today I just felt crappy.
I went to all my classes (excluding this one) but I spent most of the day feeling very sore and doing stuff for classes...I don't think I should have gone to choir, because now my throat feels (even more like) I devoured a cactus.

Since I did not get everything I wanted accomplished, I will relate the things today that I did which I find related to the topic.

One thing was that my boy and I bussed to springfield and looked at some pawn shops. I thought there might be something I could use in the garage and I didn't really see anything for that, but I did see some interesting musical instruments, and I saw something that could be used in art (possibly?) It was a bin full of ten-cent metal pieces that I guess have something to do with rachetting? I am not sure what they could be used for but there was something in them that screamed potential. If anyone is curious and wants to make some robot-looking-type art out of silver things, those are at some Pawn Shop that is easilly accessible via emX bus.

Here is what I got regarding the evaluation of the garage:
1) There are at least two spiders living in thee (not counting the scary king of death spider living under the clear rubbermaid container in the middle of the room. We are keeping him). I need the spiders to be gone in order to work comfortably. Unfortunately, my boyfriend is a sissy when it comes to Spider-Battle, so I need to think of a less sexist solution to that problem. I am not going to do that when I am feeling so sore.
2) I have ascertained what is in the three rubbermaids in there and it doesn't seem quite right. -One of them is full of sweatshirts and dresses that I used to keep in the closet. Those need to go back in the closet.
-One of them is full of hats, costumes, wigs, eccentric things. I need to do inventory on this...
-The third one contains blankets, clothes I never wear, unmatched socks, swimsuits, and some things I definitely need to get rid of.
By the time I finish re-organizing these tubs, I should definitely have only two, which will leave the third free for containing something else (blankets from the hall closet?).
3) There are more unused shelves in the garage than I remembered, and it will be easy to buy at least FIVE new clear rubbermaid containers for art supplies and other things to go in. This will be an enormous help.
4) I am having second thoughts on partioning the space. Would it not be better to share the space entirely with becca, so that she also has access to the shelves, and so that I will also be able to see the "painting" of "nature" that is on the other part of the wall, to inspire me? It would also be more fair that way so that we each have access to the door and to the small dungeon room. I will put off any partitioning plan until I am sure what I want to do about that.
5) I am 90% sure I want to move all the board games into these shelves but in that case I need to decide what I'm going to put in that other room. Also the shelves need to be CLEAN for that to happen! No more spiders!

I have thought of another issue, and that is what I am going to do with the floor.
I do not want to leave it cement, I want to put something down, but I don't want to put down a blanket or rug that I will really like, because I will want it to be something that I can get paint, glue, whatever, etc, on. (Also I don't want to get paint etc on the floor). What might I put down on the floor that would make it cozy but be alright to get messy if need be?

Anyway, that's all I managed to accomplish today, I guess.
Well, I also finished doing and putting away these loads of laundry, which is practically related.
Organization and functionality of living environment are all related.

PLANS

Hey dudes. Dudettes. What's shakin'?

Tomorrow I am not going to be in class because I need to shuffle around some of my activities tomorrow to ensure I get all the work done I need to do in as timely a fashion as possible.

What does that mean? It means I need to be sure and get some stuff DONE in my garage re-designing project TOMORROW.

So here are some things I would really like to work on tomorrow:
-Get garage "tidy" (get those papers out, etc)
-Re-organize/condense things on the shelves.
-Dust all the shelves
-Evaluate wall-texture for possible whiteboard & partition possibilities.
-Evaluate shelving space for possible purchasing of new clear rubbermaid style containers.

Some of these things I might do tonight before I go to bed but hopefully all of these will be finished by thursday, and maybe even more than this depending on what i have time for in the next few days.