taking the same photo I take everywhere I go,

finding jeweled seashells,

being a tourist,

and standing in the mouth of an exposed sea-cave as the tide came in.

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It’s so hard to return to normal life after such a fantastic weekend. I’m trying to hold onto the hope and fun between those blue seashells as I stumble through my last two weeks of this term.

Only I’m not gonna. Y’all have your own life, and I have mine, and I’ve used the last four days very effectively, taking a pseudo internet-vaction. I spent some much-needed time in the real world, cleaning and organizing and taking things apart.

What exactly did I do?

Well, I bought a new mirror:

Criss-cross applesauce… Camera in your hands.

I waited 6 weeks for this mirror to go on clearance, and nabbed it for $10 + my 10% discount. Yeah, you’re totally jealous. I plan on painting it white, or red, or blue, depending on what takes my fancy when I go and buy paint.

The problem with these is that they reflect light DIRECTLY INTO YOUR EYES.

I also got these awesome mirrored nesting tables! On clearance, each for $10. I don’t have the largest one in the set yet, I’ll get it on Friday, as it wasn’t yet on sale. This is the first super-awesome deal I’ve scored at my store, and I am ridiculously proud of myself. Also, they look quite grand with my gold deer on them, no?

I cleaned out my closet… Because I discovered this:

Oh, sleeveless shirts!

This, my friends, was my favourite shirt in the 6th grade. Being a 22 year old of much better fashion sense (Rainbows are still awesome, but I don’t need everything I own to have rainbows on them anymore…) I decided it was time to bite the bullet and say goodbye to many, many articles of clothing that I haven’t worn for a number of years.

Goodbye~

I find getting rid of clothing you haven’t worn in a few months (…or a few years!) to be very cathartic. I’m pretty good at saying goodbye to clothes though. If I haven’t worn it since my last cleanup, it’s out, and no ifs, ands or buts. Giving clothing to goodwill makes me feel a little better about it too! Someone could totally rock this, since I’m not. Especially considering I’m trying to only thrift clothing through the end of summer, freeing up some space in my closet feels pretty nice.

No more…!

The problem with cleaning out your closet is you find all sorts of interesting things. And by ‘interesting’, I mean maddenly irritating since within pulling my first few shirts off of their hangers I had a giant wire mess on my floor. I was tempted to leave it there, along with a little card affixed to my carpet,
“2009 Wire Project:
“Completely Irritating”
by Brittney’s closet“,
but my Mother just doesn’t have the appreciation for art that I do, so I dutifully cleaned them up. Luckily these are going to be put to good use… back at the dry cleaner’s, where they came from!

This is my updated and cleaned-off bookcase. Here’s an earlier photograph (from an earlier room reorganizaiton/clean) I put my crappy television and PS2 away for now, since I’m at a point in life where video games don’t hold as much appeal as they used to… but maybe now that I’ll have friends in town for the summer I’ll bring it back out! I’m just glad to free up some space in my room for more important things.

Like purses.

That was, until I drowned in the puddle the size of Lake Michigan in the middle of the kitchen.

I’m not even exaggerating! (Okay, so maybe it was the size of Lake Eyrie? And well, I did drown. That sucked. But at least here in heaven we get to wear electric blue boots, and white pants after labor day, right?!) The puddle lake stretched from the base of our refrigerator to the center of our dining room table.

After wading into the depths and reaching the freezer, we realized that the congealed sticky-mess of sludge was in fact, the ice-cream that we hadn’t finished our previous evening. There you have it. Our refrigerator, she had passed on in the night.

Rest in peace, Barbara Jean Mullhulland. You will be sorely missed.

Seriously, though? Recent scientific advances in Refrigerator technology are entirely insane! I’m talking LED screens, temp-smart compartments, etc! I’m proud to announce to the universe that we have definetly upgraded our refrigerator. I feel like I should be admitted into a higher social network. We’ll serve cheese and wine and wear strappy heels and look down on the poor neighbors who still have a Whirlpool and talk about our tennis lessons and how absoultely faaabulous Mark is with his serve.

I bet Mark is fabulous at other things. If you catch my drift.

Anyway, I would proudly like to introduce my enormous internet fan-base to the newest addition to our appliance family:

Fitzgerald Winston Newcastle II.

(Click for larger, since my handwriting is impossible.)

…maybe next week I’ll introduce you to my microwave!

(or not.)