Life Laundry

Getting rid of excess baggage

After a couple of weeks of feeling slightly less than motivated (I don't know why, maybe it was a subliminal message or something from my brain about nearly being 30, or the fact that I had stuff that needed doing and I'd been avoiding it) I feel considerably much more on track so far this week. So today, as well as the usual house cleaning attack, I also set about unpacking some more of the boxes that had been laying around since I moved in with Phil, just about 10 months ago.

Amongst the various items of bric-a-brac were several things I'd forgotten I had, such as a full length python skin and hundreds of glass pebbles. Not to mention the copious mounds of other bits and pieces that I'd not been bothered to extracate from bubble wrap and newspaper.

So I'm sat on the floor thinking to myself, oh well I can't live with out this (an over exposed photo of nothing), and I can't live with out that (the same photo but from a slightly different angle)... when in actual fact I can live without 90% of it, I have done so for the past 10 months so whats stopping me now?

So most of it gets trashed and enables me to free up some valuable storage space. Next on my hit list is to make a list of stuff that can be ebay'd - I've no doubt in my mind that one persons junk is anothers treasure, and if I can make a penny or 2 to put towards our digital camera fund well thats good!

With the life laundry therefore underway, I'm going to make a concerted effort to try and unpack one box every week and exorcise any unwanted, unneeded, unused, underutilized or duplicated items to ebay, or the trash can :) It's not as if we have a huge house, so any extra room is always a bonus :)

Treacher Collins affects the way facial bone and structure developes

Not much going on this evening, though we do watch a documentary about a baby who was born with out a face, or more scientifically, someone suffering with Treacher Collins Syndrome, this incident being most extreme case to have been reported. The family certainly have my admiration, I have to question myself if I could go through what they have.

I guess it goes to show that no matter what the odds, there is always the chance it could be you affected.

Posted by Abi on the May 16, 2005 9:41 PM