The Minority Report

My seasonal affective disorder is at an all-time low, thanks to my new job. I work in the grocery business now so I'm always moving around, and there are a lot of colorful things to see as well as fresh produce and plants all the time.  There are windows and the lighting is excellent.  Usually around this time of year I'm thinking of making a permanent move to somewhere like New Mexico.  I do get a little anxious and crabby now and then but nowhere near my former experiences.  Office work sucks!  I was so irritable at my last job that it's no wonder things got worse during the cold weather.

I'm doing more craft projects and continuing my organizing. I'm taking all of my art and office supplies to the basement to prepare for ripping up the carpet. I've said it a bunch of times but that's one of my January goals: just clearing the floor for the carpet job. I'm getting rid of the desk I built to make space. It finally feels like objects have a place to go, or they are leaving for good.

BUH-

BYE!

I'm purging a lot of things these last few weeks, but don't think it's because of the new Marie Kondo program.  I haven't seen it, but I want to! I'd like to see what she's like in human form, as opposed to just reading her words from a page.  I also love watching anything to do with heavy sorting and cleaning. I lent her book to my sister so I haven't been following the KonMari program to a T, as if I ever was.  I'm just bagging up stuff as I go along.  For example, I've barely used my printer in years, but I have a ream of paper on the floor beneath it.  I found the duct tape and electrical tape I'd been looking for under some boxes, so I don't have to buy duplicates.

I haven't blogged much in the last couple years, but I'm committing to writing  a post once a week to stay on top of my projects. Every time I pick something up I make it more complicated so I want to make sure I move forward with each task.     
I'm doing more listening to music as part of my crafting and cleaning.  I hadn't used the record player much until this weekend.  I think I have more energy from not trying to watch a movie every time I do  a project.

But speaking of movies, I'm in the middle of Weiner, the documentary about the Anthony Weiner scandal.  What a prat! It's like watching a pteradactyl get harpooned and then fall through a glassed-in shopping mall atrium. Except Anthony does it to himself and seems surprised that other people are reacting, and his poor wife has to process in public. I forget what people used to do to ruin themselves before smart phones existed. Dude is getting out of jail this spring.  I hope he lives off the grid for the next 25 years because I think the first thing he's going to do is inappropriately contact a random woman. Remember when we used to just take pictures of our butt cheeks with photocopiers? Do people still do that?