Well, I have coffee. Whoop-di-goddamned-do!
I also have a coffee table. This had been a subject of some doubt for most of the year since starting late last year I'd buried it under piles of paper that I had every intention of "getting around to" sooner or later.
Well, it's later, so I attacked the stacks yesterday. I spent nearly four hours going through each and every scrap of paper. There were my discharge documents from the hospital after my quad-bypass surgery in 2004. There were co-payment receipts from doctors. There were invoices from CDW (a new disk drive), Best-Buy (a cable modem) and various crap from other places.
The shredder got a thorough workout and I filled nearly 4 medium sized trash bags with paper confetti.
This is one of the biggest problems of living alone. It's too easy to succumb to the temptation to "just let it slide" (whatever "it" is) for awhile. Like a year. Or two.
Quentin Crisp, one of the Stately Homos of England (God rest Her Soul) once said (and I concurred) that "dust doesn't get any thicker after the first two years." Still, it never hurts to run a dust-rag and a vacuum around the place every once in awhile.
======================================================
On another note, this one musical, I found a new British Pop-Goddess over the weekend. 19 year old Amy MacDonald. Her big hit right now is entitled "Mr. Rock and Roll."
I hope you enjoy her and it.
2 comments:
What a coincidence. I just spent the morning cleaning off the kitchen table. It's difficult to cut chicken breast when it's balanced precariously on some old sox, a dog leash, and your bank statement.
I'm in no position to criticize.
Left to my own devices, I'm a slob.
Post a Comment