I actully collected things, knicknacks, bibelots, objets, little or large clusters of like things, or themed objects.
Until one day I looked at shelves under an eighth-inch of dust and thought, "Naaahhh, don'wanna." And thus the Great Migration of mathoms and gifts and ebay and Goodwill was begun. My instinct is still to collect, and to hoard. But I like not having the weight of things on my back, like the little muppet woman in Labyrinth. The kids were warned to take anything they liked and wanted, friends were offered things that suited them, that they'd admired, that would remind them of me.
It's so much easier to swipe a swiffer over that swath of bare wood in front of single-shelved books. Now if I could just maintain things that way....
Hey omnis!
Are you only making it to R's dinner, or are you going to karaoke at The Point too?
Teppy, I'm very sorry. My condolences to his family and those who loved him.
This didn't seem to go with my previous post.
I have six book cases, all full of books. I also have a table with a book rack (full of books), a small book case in the headboard of my bed (full of books), and about 3 dozen books scattered on various flat surfaces. I'm very much not afraid of books. This may be my downfall, as the piles of books continue to get higher and higher and I do not.
Are you only making it to R's dinner, or are you going to karaoke at The Point too?
Dinner. Not a fan of the Karaoke, so will skip that.
Aw man! I can't make dinner (will be carousing with an ex-coworker and waiting for Jon), but will be at The Point. You don't have to sing you know. You could just go for the company.
You don't have to sing you know. You could just go for the company.
I know I don't have to sing, it's the others that kill me. And the bad sound. It makes my skin crawl. I know, it sounds lame, but, as a Pro Sound person, it pains me going to Karaoke, and I find I'm not all the social, and become very judgmental, and that makes me less social.
An old man in San Diego was almost killed under the thousands of hardcover books he had stacked floor to ceiling in his apartment when an earthquake hit back in 1986.
so? we should watch more TV?