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I sort of started cleaning up my office on Saturday. I don’t really know what possessed me to do it. I just started cleaning up my desk, and then I moved to the big plastic containers that sit behind my office door. Then I started going through boxes of back issues of Rolling Stone, Road & Track, Car & Driver and Maxim. I had two U-Haul small boxes, and a U-Haul medium box full of magazines! Most of them are going out on the curb tomorrow night to be recycled into toilet paper and napkins.

Then I started on my college books. I emptied a small box of folders and notebooks into a large clear plastic container. I put more textbooks onto the bookshelves that sit half empty, requiring a good cleaning to get rid of the dead bugs, spiders and web that have accumulated over the past three years or so. I’ve got things mostly organized and cleared out, if necessary. I just have to do the final sweep and vacuum to clean up the last bits. Then I have to decide if I should do any painting before I start shifting furniture in and out of the office.

It’s going to be at least a week of hard work if I decide to paint. And who knows, maybe I’ll finish my office before I finish the living room and dining room. I’m probably going to order some paintable wallpaper to help conceal the imperfections in the wall, as well as to get rid of the horrible wallpaper that currently resides on my walls. The diamond pattern is the current favorite, followed by the hip hop stripe. Really, anything is better than these horrid yellow flowers on yellow and white stripes.