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let freedom ring around the rosy.
Jul. 3rd, 2007 08:21 ami was stressed yesterday after work and i was going to take a bath, but while the water was running, i started looking around the bathroom...
i ended up not taking a bath. i dove into a frenzy of possession-weeding instead. while "hell's kitchen" was on, i rolled my pennies and took apart my harry potter legos, and at commercial breaks i toted armloads of crap to the dumpster and the giving ledge.
ah, the giving ledge. i have gotten so many prized possessions from it. it was always so nice to come home and find that someone was moving out and leaving a trove of treasures that i could plunder. and now? i get to be the goddess of gifts. i get to be the anonymous fairy that shits cotton candy all over the giving ledge. yay me. yay them. yay everyone.
y'know what? it feels REALLY GOOD getting rid of all this crap. when i think of all the shit i've had in my closet and how much crap i have stored in my parents' basement, it makes me a little ill. i could be a millionare by now if i hadn't spent so much money on crap. crap i kept because of sentimental value. crap i paid to have shipped home from asia. crap i haven't used in years. and where is it now? in boxes. and where will it be tomorrow? on the giving ledge. bah. i think this move is finally going to break me of buying crap i don't need. or hording it.
well. maybe not break me. maybe slow it down a little. i AM american, after all. i need to consume goods and services. it's only patriotic.
i have plans tonight after work with my lady laura and her beau. but. tomorrow, while all of you are picnicing or getting drunk watching parades, oooing and ahhing over firework displays, i shall be a purging, packing fool. if what they say is true and possessions end up owning you, then tomorrow will truly be my independance day.
i ended up not taking a bath. i dove into a frenzy of possession-weeding instead. while "hell's kitchen" was on, i rolled my pennies and took apart my harry potter legos, and at commercial breaks i toted armloads of crap to the dumpster and the giving ledge.
ah, the giving ledge. i have gotten so many prized possessions from it. it was always so nice to come home and find that someone was moving out and leaving a trove of treasures that i could plunder. and now? i get to be the goddess of gifts. i get to be the anonymous fairy that shits cotton candy all over the giving ledge. yay me. yay them. yay everyone.
y'know what? it feels REALLY GOOD getting rid of all this crap. when i think of all the shit i've had in my closet and how much crap i have stored in my parents' basement, it makes me a little ill. i could be a millionare by now if i hadn't spent so much money on crap. crap i kept because of sentimental value. crap i paid to have shipped home from asia. crap i haven't used in years. and where is it now? in boxes. and where will it be tomorrow? on the giving ledge. bah. i think this move is finally going to break me of buying crap i don't need. or hording it.
well. maybe not break me. maybe slow it down a little. i AM american, after all. i need to consume goods and services. it's only patriotic.
i have plans tonight after work with my lady laura and her beau. but. tomorrow, while all of you are picnicing or getting drunk watching parades, oooing and ahhing over firework displays, i shall be a purging, packing fool. if what they say is true and possessions end up owning you, then tomorrow will truly be my independance day.
