Break Time!

Taking a break from organizing all teh books... It's a little overwhelming to organize them when I've got this new system in place. On the shelf next to my desk, all the books I own that I have not read. The other two shelves [maybe three, we'll see?]... well. It's hard to explain or express, but they are basically categorized in a few chunks: Astrology, politics, humor, Indian fiction, Irish and Celtic, novels/literature, and other textbooks. When I have a collection of a specific author [see also: Henry Rollins, Salman Rushdie, Chuck Palahnuik, and Chuck Klosterman] I have them organized by the date they were printed. Yes, I am that OCD. However, you know you've got a problem when not once but TWICE you find that you have two copies of the same book...... And then this happened. In case you doubt my authenticity, check the authors on the top row there... or check this blog for other photos of Derpy Bill.

So, as far as the Gel Medium goes, if you were keeping track... lesson learned. Fun fact: Gel Medium is mostly translucent, so, yeah, um, trying to transfer prints onto something dark, not so good. Either my art tips and ideas book didn't warn me, or I didn't pay attention to that detail. But rather than try a third time, I decided to run with it. The streaks are from the scraps of paper I left on from the first pass, I kind of like that... Well, I can live with it, at least. And now I know better--and I see when when I did my test transfer [on white paper] it worked so well. I'm looking forward to playing with this some more in the future, but I'm kind of waiting for something to strike me as strongly as this compilation did.

  

Procrastinated OCD

So, Procrastination and OCD are two things I'm really good at. A while back I bought a couple bedroom organizer things, and as soon as they came... they sat in their boxes in my living room for a couple weeks. Or so. The boy has been asking me to go through and toss out a lot of old stuff. I oblige from time to time, when I have time to clean stuff. One of the things I put off for quite some time was my makeup/body spray/lotion/hair stuff collection. Sigh, until last night, Mr. Bill Apollo managed to knock over the entire contents [mess] from the top of my cabinet while chasing... well, I assume it was a bug, but it could have been nothing. You know how cats are. I took that as a sign that--deep breath--it was time. Since half of my stuff was strewn across the bedroom floor already, I might as well condense before I put away. Which also meant... putting laundry away where it belongs, moving the now-empty bookshelf into the living room, putting the extra random pile of books into the bookshelf, emptying and moving the first cabinet, throwing half the old stuff out, organizing and putting the rest of the stuff away, and attempting to build the new cabinet that... now I have no clue what I'm going to put in it since I guess I didn't have quite as much 'stuff' as I thought I did. Here are the results!

I LOVE organizing! I mean, when it strikes me. If I HAVE to, then it's just no good. Everything is so pretty to me! I hope I can keep it nice for a while. Organizers inside of organizers. MMMMM-hm. Much better. Now if I could just get rid of all the boxes this stuff came in...