roommate's dad is a packrat and much of his clutter is in our garage but sometimes that's a good thing, like the time I found out we were having a solar eclipse and I called him to tell him how to make a pinhole camera. He said, "here's what you do- you go in the garage and find my welders helmets." There were three welders helmets in our garage! All the neighborhood kids came over to take turns looking at the eclipse. And if a horse ever runs loose through our neighborhood we have a bridle and saddle. Not sure if we'll ever get any use out of those canada geese decoys, though.

I am addressing my multiple anxiety attacks about the vet trip (in 1.5 hours) by biking hard. I should be washing dishes or packing or something productive, but they are not distracting.

The guy whose house we just bought is a huge packrat also. I have no idea how he's going to get all that stuff out. Things like those aluminum roasting pans you buy for $2 at Safeway, stored neatly in the ceiling beams.

Just cleaned out the shelves in my closet. Why do I have a set of twin sheets and a twin blanket? I don't have a twin bed. I think that getting rid of the junk got me room for my winter clothes there, so now I can get them off my couch.

I love the Japanese SO MUCH! [link]

We have lots of places where you can donate clothes and such, but they all frown on just dropping off a bag of stuff on your way to work, outside of their drop off hours (by the end of the day, I just want to go home, not go out of my way in the head of the afternoon). I occasionally put together a bag of stuff under Hubby's radar, and it would be very convenient to pull in to the thrift store's drop zone in the morning.

There's a vietnam vets drop-off right by my work. The attendant always tries to give me a receipt but I don't itemize deductions so I don't need it. Last time he saw me coming and had the receipt all written out and handed it to me before I could protest.

ooh spooky... I haven't used the phone in an hour. I just heard a noise behind me and turned to see the cord wrap itself into a twist. This is the same office where the lights sometimes turn on by themselves. I'm so glad it's daytime right now.

They don't have drop boxes there, Connie? That's where i do my clothing drop-offs.

More Hello Kitty stuff: Katherine's "Hello Kitty"© Sisters of Battle

Inspired by the ever cute Sanrio character "Hello Kitty" ©, Katherine wanted to bring a little color (and a bit of snappy fashion!) into the male dominated (and admitedly gothic themed) gaming world of Warhammer 40K! Katherine's devotion to painting her gaming miniatures in constant tribute to Hello Kitty has stirred much interest in the gaming community - and there are growing hopes among many gamers that where one girl blazes a pink trail into the gaming world - others may follow! :-)

I'll begin with the photo that got so many people excited on the GW 40K forum - a photo of Katherine's HK Dreadnought!

Right now, I've got a grocery bag full of clothes, and I'm searching all over the place and can't find anywhere that accepts them. Everywhere requires a car. Every place that I can get to will only take men's clothes, or only take new clothes, or some other restriction that means I can't donate there. I've got a stack of perfectly good clothes, some of them never worn.