One of the many reasons the clutter piles up is that, for example, I pull out a couple of towels in a hurry for some emergency, unfolding all the other towels in the process. Instead of fixing the towels, I either just shove more towels on top of them, or let the towels pile up elsewhere because I'm going to refold all those towels in some decade or another.

I really slept in. This has been my third tech weekend in as many weeks, so I was probably due some extra sleep.

I need to do a little shopping, some laundry and get going on a light plot. I'd rather sit here and watch the last two episodes of Fringe that I haven't seen yet.

RSI has been crazy painful so I've been sleeping more. Which means I get less done. I'm going to try to move more moving boxes today so that at least my bedroom is clear of them. Which might make me more productive.

I just checked all the smoke alarms after I replaced one... which I've been meaning to get around to since the last equinox. I may have been procrastinating a little on the spring cleaning, I fear.

I'm kind of OK with Katy Perry's "Vegas" song, but that may be because it was getting a ton of radio airplay at the same time as Taylor Swift's "Love Story," which I hate with a fiery passion, and so "Vegas" seemed OK in comparison. I mean, it has a few lines that get pretty close to humor, which was nice after "You were Romeo, I was the scarlet letter" and a 16-year-old earnestly starting a song with, "We were both young when I first saw you, I close my eyes and the flashback starts..." along with solving all of Romeo and Juliet's problems with "I talked to your dad," which Taylor Swift does in "Love Story."

Armoire is about halfway assembled. These instructions are ridiculous. The first thing they have you do is attach little connector thingies to just about every piece in the box, and then you don't use any of those pieces for a while, so, rather than assembling one section at a time, or assembling the frame and then the inside, or something else logical like that, you need to keep shuffling through about 20 pieces. This would make perfect sense if it were being made on an assembly line, but makes no sense at all when it's being made by one person.

Is it an IKEA piece, Hil? I've usually found not much wrong with their instructions, aside from the need for a third arm to hold things together....

In theory I try to pull out no more than I can put away in an hour. In practice I can't estimate times for shit.

I can't even believe how late I slept today...and then have spent the rest of the day being an enormous slug. Sigh. No regrets, but I do wish all the things were cleaned and organized.

Day is not totally over, but yeeeeaaaahhh, unlikely to spontaneously become productive.

Watched The Glades. That was a highlight. Surely, because I like it, it won't last, but I'm enjoying it, in any case.

My dryer hasn't been drying things very well. I thought it was just old. Today while I was outside, it occurred to me to take a look at the dryer vent. OMG LINT. I'm surprised the house hasn't caught fire. I can't fix it because it's on the second floor and I don't own a damn ladder, so now I have to summon a handyman and hope he doesn't take too long to appear. I don't dare use the dryer again until the filter is clean. Seriously, it looks like a bird's nest. I can't believe I never thought to look at it before.

Now I'm wondering if I should take a look at my neighbor's dryer vent too. She never owned a house on her own before, and has previously shown signs of not having a clue how to maintain one. Her house's health is related to mine because we're a duplex, so I have a vested interest in her place not catching on fire either. This is also why I'm halfway-seriously considering buying her house when she puts it on the market someday.

Is it an IKEA piece, Hil? I've usually found not much wrong with their instructions, aside from the need for a third arm to hold things together....

Nope, there's no IKEA near here. I got it from overstock.com, and it does seem like it's well-made, just with horrible instructions. If I were making several of these for some reason, I would totally redo the sequence of what's done when. (The instructions were also clearly written by someone whose native language does not distinguish between singular and plural, but I can usually figure out what it's getting at.)