Retold

I leiu of work today, I’ve been trying to get my house cleaned up. I realized, in the process, that my house is far more messy than I thought it was.  I also realized that the fine line between messy and dirty has been long since breached.  I need to clean, really clean, and get this place in order.  I hate living in a mess, but without enough time to do everything I want, or need, to do finding the time to clean up seems to fall by the wayside.  Right now, I’m telling myself that if I can just get it cleaned up, I can keep it cleaned up, but this is what I tell myself every single time I need to give myself motivation to clean and ultimately, it ends up being a total lie.  I have good intentions, but that’s about as far as it goes.

I’m never going to be a good housekeeper.  I usually do okay with the whole dirty thing, I try to keep things clean, but messy… that’s another story all together.

Oh, and while I’m having awesome realizations, I realized that I’m a borderline hoarder with books.  I swear to you, there are books all over my house. Literally, all over.  The buffet (it’s a cabinet thing) in the kitchen has shelves on the top and they’ve got books on them. There are books stacked on the table, on the top of this cabinet thing in the hall, on top of the old TV, on my desk and Matt’s desk, on the shelf, on the floor, on top of an old metal popcorn tin… there’re literally books everywhere.  I don’t have enough space to keep them all, but I can’t get rid of them either.  Now, before you go calling Hoarders on me, I don’t want to get rid of them, either.  This is not an obsession I’m planning to give up any time soon.  I love my books, I just wish I could do something with them so they felt less like clutter.

I need to find a better way to organize them.  I have an old dresser, which I love, in the spare bedroom (which is a HUGE mess) and all of its drawers are filled with paperbacks.  It’s an obsession, I’m telling you.  We even have several boxes of books, and I brought some books from my grandmas in March.  I need more bookcases, they sell the cheap pressed wood ones at Wal-Mart for like $30 each, but I don’t have anywhere to put a bookshelf.  My house isn’t big enough for the furniture I have, let alone any more.  Besides, we’re going to move in a few years and I don’t want to buy anything we’ll have to lug with us to California.

So, I’m at a loss.

I’m sure I’ll figure it out.  I mean, this isn’t exactly a library, though if it were I’d have one of those awesome Symbol LS2208 RFID barcode scanner systems and all my books would be so organized — a girl can dream!!  Yeah, I did a tech writing paper over RFID systems, so I’m in the know about how they work and I totally think that if they weren’t so much, I’d want one for my books.  Gogo awesome organization!!

Okay, enough rambling.  I have work to do and I still need to run to the store and get laundry soap.  Ciao!