My Room is Clean! Now Comes The Hard Part.

Today, after many hours, and possibly days, of procrastination, I finally cleaned my room.  For those of you who don't know, I'm currently living back at home, and if you must know, it's because I got financially stupid for awhile, and am recovering from my mistakes.  Anyways, my brother is graduating this weekend, and Mom thinks everything NEEDS to be spotless whenever people are here.  I don't think spotless is really necessary, people do know we live here, but like a good boy, I cleaned up my room, on the off chance that a bunch of people decide to come downstairs.  Yes, you can make these pictures bigger, and yes, some of them are VERY blurry.  No tripod. :(

It was about 1:30, and I started off by taking 4 pictures, so you can have a general idea just how messy it is.  Organized confusion, I know exactly which pile my stuff is in, although that doesn't do anybody else any good.  It's still organized confusion, only now it's not on the floor, and you can see the desk.

In the fifth and sixth pictures, you'll see a fair amount was accomplished in 2 hours.  It helped that iTunes kept my mind occupied as I placed stuff in boxes and filled garbage bags with stuff I should've thrown out years ago.  I'm a sentimental guy.  :)

This entire project was made infinitely easier, because about 2 months ago, I went through virtually everything, and threw out about 5 garbage bags full of random stuff I had been holding onto.  I finally decided that those Coca-Cola Classic Minor League Baseball Cards did not need to be kept any longer, amongst other things.

This freed up several boxes and containers, which have been sitting empty since.  Once I filled up the regular old cardboard boxes, and placed them back on the shelves, I rearranged a few things to be displayed more prominently, giving it a better feel, like somebody actually cares about what it looks like.  This left me with general stuff, and rather than take the time to organize it all, I just dumped it into a couple containers, covered it, and called it good for today.

By 4:30, I was essentially done.  In the last 6 pictures, you can see the dramatic difference from start to finish.  The small square table will resume its place next to the couch after graduation, it was needed in the garage for the grad party, so I had to clean everything off of it.  I must admit though, it's nice to be able to calmly walk everywhere again, rather than cautiously stepping over everything.

I suppose you'll all be looking through the blurriness in some of the photos to scrutinize my life now.  Be it the books I read, the gadgets scattered around, Spurs hats, or random decorations.  Now that the drums aren't covered up by jackets, I should make a concerted effort to raise the money for new drum heads, so I can play it again.  The old heads are pretty worn out, and most haven't been replaced in the almost 10 years I've had it.  The cymbals are safely tucked away in a hard case.  If you want to help me get new heads, send me an email or a tweet, and I can give you my PayPal info.  Several months ago I priced them at $300.

All in all, it's not a bad setup, all my movies and TV are watched through the computer, gotta love a TV tuner card.  Couch is literally 4 feet away from the computer, so it's easy to watch it all on that 21" wide screen, although I'd like a 24" model.

Anyways, feel free to scrutinize the pictures of my room.  Make suggestions, make fun of me, whatever, I don't care.  It's an up close look at the daily surroundings of thattalldude, who just happens to be 5 inches shorter than his graduating brother.  Hopefully I can keep it clean now, that's the hard part.

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[TheFemGeek]

Now if I only I could do the same thing here in my room. Why is it so hard:<(