spt: 100 list
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 09:31PM I missed last week, so here’s a double post…
14. I love office supplies.
Still true. It gives me great joy to have staples, push-pins, a variety of envelopes, file folders, even empty binders on hand. Just in case. And I’m not sure it falls precisely under the definition of office supplies, but it’s no small secret amongst those who know me well that I’m desperately attached to my laminator. As in, it just might make the short list of things I’d rush to retrieve from a burning building. Having the ability to laminate at a moment’s notice brings endless delight. It makes paper, words, a picture last forever.
21. My bed is never made.
I’m having an angry day (please tell me that you have them too!). And when this item popped up as 21 on my list, I wanted to protest. Because at this precise moment my bed looks like this:
Let me point out some gruesome details. First, those pillows are caseless (and have been since the end of last week). Where are the cases? In a stack of laundry still awaiting my attention. It's an all-around sorry situation. And, for clarification, the black spot in the middle is a ponytailer. And, yes, I do realize that the fitted sheet is inching its way off the mattress.
This whole scenario would not be so frustrating had I not declared myself a changed woman eight short months ago. I boldly eschewed my bad bed attitude last February. Remembering this, I went off to search for that post this afternoon, to read my very own "hallelujah, changed forever" words with spite. Because I’m not changed forever. And it hardly matters that I truly meant it at the time. Because the improvement of now making my bed 50% of the time is still a solid F in nearly any grading system.
Yet. I do love a tidy room. With a love that wrestles deep-seated and long-held issues (of both cleaning & avoidance).
Issues are hard to reckon with on an Angry day.
Or any day.
Which leads me back to #7.
Because I really like to laminate.
And now I'll have this "clean bed" picture for always. Not an A+, but enough (for now!) to assuage some afternoon anger.
Reader Comments (22)
Our name isn't the only thing we have in common: I *heart* office supplies too and my bed looks almost exactly like yours!!!!!! Thank goodness the pillowtop holds the sheet on a little longer! :)
But I DON'T have a laminating machine....
Yet I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i *confess* that i make my bed every day. but there are so many other things that do fall into my "unmade bed" category...
i would love to spend an hour in office depot right now!
I love my laminator too!! So glad you introduced me to it years and years ago.
I love office supplies too...among my favorites are freshly sharpened pencils. Yum.
I do make my bed...unless it's a really,really bad day. Rachel once told me that she's only seen my bed unmade once. But, I have more angry days than I care to admit. I know what you mean about being frustrated at being unable to change completely, once and for all. I've been trying to do that with my heart...with less than 50% results, I'm afraid. I did get a lot of comfort from c jane's latest post about progress...that it's slow and we have to be patient. I've started measuring it differently...maybe not perfect, but certainly an (infinitesimal) improvement. I'm trying, and that's something.
And damn entropy anyway.
angry face photo, with caption, priceless.
love your inspiration pic, too! :)
I do feel better when my bed is made, even when there are piles all around the bed....sigh. I cannot stand it when the fitted sheet is starting to coming off. One of my idiosyncrasies.
Laminating machine? How luxurious! It's really almost decadent to have one in your own home. I can see how it would bring you joy.
I love office supplies. I think it goes back to when I was a secretary (er...administrative assistant) at BYU and realized how helpful it is to have those things within an arms reach. Now that I don't need them, or have the organizational skills to know where they are...ever, my love affair has diminished. But, I admit, I got a little excited when you mentioned push pins. Those are fun!
As are you. Really.
As for bringing up Target - that is just plain mean:)
I share your love of office supplies, but don't own a laminator -- you'll have to introduce me to it's plastic-y goodness.
I love the angry photo -- I could have taken one of those myself, only it would have been much less cute.
I also have a horrible habit of never making my bed..and yet if I ever do it looks so nice and completely lifts my mood.
Good for you for posting anyway...love that you laminated your bed. Now it can always be made!
Oh, and I have not forgotten to call... I am just late, with everything. :)
I am hoping this same miracle happens with my dishes. I have REALLY been trying to do my dishes in the evening. (I can keep up all day, but after dinner is over I just say, 'forget it. I'll do them in the morning. Then in the morning, I have to do them, but now they are crusty and harder to wash.) You'd think that after 27 years, I would learn I am a happier person if I wake up to a clean kitchen, wouldn't you? Anyway, I have been doing good lately, but it is never without focusing and forcing myself to get my rear end infront of the sink.
If you come and do my dishes, I'll make your bed for you. Deal?