Lighten Up!

I'm cleaning today, cleaning this apartment - room by room. I'm rearranging furniture, which means that I'm moving furniture from one room to another. The easiest way I've found to accomplish that task is to move it end over end. It's like rolling a rock, only the rock is a dresser or a chair. It sounds a little awkward, but it's really much easier my way than to drag/pull/push/grunt/strain. I don't have any help, after all. I moved a dresser into my bedroom because I rarely have company stay in my guest room and those empty dresser drawers weren't being put to any use. I got the job done - my way.

I have four bags of clothing to donate to Goodwill and I've pitched several loads of magazines and other worthless stuff that was collecting dust. I'm preparing for my lease expiration in January. I still don't know where I'm going, but I'm going somewhere.

I think I'll rest better in my room with my bed at this new angle. I don't know if it will be a feng shui thing or if I'll just be exhausted from all the physical labor today.

While cleaning I came across my scanner and also several boxes of photos. Of course I welcomed the chance to sit for awhile while I loaded the scanner software onto this laptop and played around with scanning some pictures. I came across this old pic of me when I was about nineteen years old. Yup, this is Michelle thirty years ago. What cracks me up is the hair. There's so MUCH of it. I took myself so seriously back then. I was so sunbleached, too. Not good. Anyway, this picture gave me a little laugh and I needed that today.