Tonight, in preparation for garbage pick-up tomorrow, the kid and I took out a total of ten bags of garbage and split them between our place and one of the neighbours. Why? Because we're only allowed ten bags per household, and I was too lazy and cold to take the extra steps to put our extra bags at the end of of our miniscule driveway/parking spot. However, this means that all the bagged garbage - other than what the kid still has in their room (it's all dry garbage, no worries) that can be put out next week..

Now that my living room is not full of filled garbage bags I will be able to get into that room over the next couple of days and work on reclaiming it once again. And vacuuming with my lovely new vacuum.

Because I have opted to keep my desk in my bedroom I do have to rethink what I'm going to be doing with my steamer trunk, although that may change yet again once I see just how much space I will have once my living room is cleaned out. I just find my bedroom nice and cozy right now, but that may also be due to the fact that my bedroom is currently the cleanest room in the house (other than the bathroom).

Right now I'm only being scheduled for three shifts a week, and I don't really mind all that much. It gives me four days a week to work on getting my apartment into order. Yes, I could have used all those days off during the beginning of the pandemic to do it, and I had gotten quite a ways through it all...until I got tired of being the only one cleaning.

I'm figuring that with the kid helping me so much this time that they might actually take more effort to clean up after themselves so that we don't end up with a giant mess yet again. At least that is my hope.

I surprised myself today and actually cleaned up most of my bedroom instead of letting a mess continue to pile up. Even my laundry is mostly done - three loads work, not including my bedding. That's more than I planned on allowing to build up, but now my hamper is empty, the first load is washed, dried, and put away, with another load in the dryer and final one in the washer to swap over tomorrow when I finally crawl out of bed.

I know that I will have to sort through the bins I have tucked away in my bedroom organizer, but that is not a huge priority at this time. I figure that once I have more crap cleared out of the rest of my place that I will have a better idea of what to keep and what to toss, and what I will need so I can organize and store more things. Surprisingly enough, none of my MCU posters are up on my bedroom wall at this time, and neither are my magazine covers. One, I don't have as much wall space, and two, I really don't want all that in my bedroom anymore. As it is, I've got six small shelves on one of my bedroom walls that has my Funko POP figures on them, along with a few other figurines and two black rat figures I picked up during Halloween. I have a feeling that once I get my living room sorted that those items will end up moved out there and something else will take over the shelves.

I've also still got to move the kid's fishtank and stand out of my bedroom so I can put my little bookshelf there. The bookshelf is where I plan on putting all my witchy things - books, goddess figure, bins of candles, crystals, incense, and smudging bundles. And my cauldron, of course. And I need to cover the bookshelf in black/black marble contact paper because right now it is stark white and really not my aesthetic at all.

Yesterday I went through all of my makeup and realized that I need to use both of my train cases for all of it, especially as I wanted to put my brushes into a case so they aren't collecting dust and gods only know what else from sitting in my bathroom. Now my collection is all organized in the two cases, and all that is left to do is further organize my bedroom organizer thingy to hold them nice and neat. It is nice to know exactly what I have in my collection, even after tossing out some really old makeup and stuff that I haven't/won't use(d). I swear I have an addiction to makeup, considering I rarely wear it, but what I do have is mostly high end brands these days, including my brushes.

Another thing I have noticed since clearing out a LOT of stuff, is that I can reach into my closet and pull out clothes that I know I will wear. Unlike before where I had a lot of clothes that inevitably ended up on my bedroom floor because I'd put it on, decide I didn't like the item so I'd take it off and just leave it where it fell. It's why I had a floordrobe for so damn long. Those days are behind me now!

It is amazing how much of a positive mood adjustment can happen just from getting just a single room mostly organized. It is honestly bizarre, and I can only hope that things remain positive as I reclaim each room back from the depression that had held on for too damn long. Sure, I still stay in bed for too long, but I am actually accomplishing things while I am awake for a change instead of just turning a blind eye to the mess growing around me. I actually give a shit about my home!

I am sure that I will still need to rent a truck to take a load to the dump, but it will not be as big as I had originally expected it might be. Just a couple of old TVs, an old computer tower, some old computer monitors, and a chair the cats scratched up. And maybe a few bags of garbage, but nowhere near the amount that we took to the curb tonight. Oh, and a couple old vacuums that no longer work, including a wet/dry vacuum that I'd originally bought to help clean the rat cages I had. Needless to say, that vacuum isn't any good anymore. For now though, I can likely store these things in the basement until I can get a chance to rent a truck...or even talk a friend into helping me dispose of the items.

In the meantime, I am off to go play some video games for a bit. I feel that after everything I accomplished today that I deserve a bit of time to goof off :D