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Date: 07 August 2005 20:30:06
Mary will be delighted to know that I've finally taken my pictures off the wall to pack them, as she was giving me nagging looks when she asked me about them today - we discussed last week after church how taking down the more personal stuff like pictures would help me turn a corner as it would make the place no longer like a home and so motivate me to get going with more packing. It's horrible - it doesn't look homely here any more (well it hasn't for a while because of everything else being packed up, but you know what I mean!). I'd say it looks awful with bare walls, but I was mortified to discover 4 years worth of cobwebs behind the picture that hung on the wall above this computer, so they're not quite bare after all. Must get the feather duster out later, I can't bear to look at that, it's quite revolting. I'd also rather not think about the state of the back of some of my shelves, where I'd not been able to dust or hoover because other things have been in the way. I shall take comfort in the fact that I'm sure everybody else's house is the same, nobody can hoover everywhere, particularly those awkward little nooks and crannies, but it doesn't make it any less icky! Sigh. I'm such a Domestic Goddess (not).
I'm now officially at the "oh sod it" stage of packing. Things are just getting slung into any old box and I can't wait to see the back of it all. I think I'm getting there, but until the boxes and furniture are out of the way it's kind of hard to tell! I'm just about *this* close to just shoving the rest of it in a bin bag and chucking it. Which would be awfully satisfying, but then I'd torture myself thinking "I wish I hadn't chucked x away". Gah. I've had enough now.