Bedroom gets amazingly clean, too much echo

[pseydtonne]

Last night I made an amazing amount of progress cleaning my bedroom. By the time I hit the sack, I had swept and toiled, filed and shoved, folded and endrawered. I was blown away by the difference in the room -- and the echo. All that clutter was holding the room quieter by adding non-parallel surfaces. Now that ten by fifteen space needs an oriental rug (maybe just five by eight of it needs that).

I got fascinated with the straight lines and the tape measure, so I decided to measure the joint. My apartment is about 600 square feet. It's 25' by 20' with a roughly 8' by 12' kitchen on the top of it. This means I'm paying maybe $1.75 per square foot per month. This will be a benchmark in my head of surface area ("How big is 2000 square feet? Four copies of my apartment without the kitchen.") and land value ("You want fuqyng how much for that space? You're a loon!")

I still have work to do (vacuuming, furniture shuffling, final reallocation of objects before tackling the area under the dining table) but I am in a total groove about this. I spent much of work today thinking how much I wanted to get back to this project. I was psyched about cleaning. That doesn't happen much of ever, so I am riding the wave. I even have a list of what needs doing today and tomorrow with a lenience for Thursday to tidy loose ends.

I am capable of reclaiming this place. It doesn't own me. (Then again, I don't own it either -- just the stuff inside it.) I have a larger plan for the next couple weeks, wherein I shall organize my office and make it useful. I will figure out whether the old table without the center leaf would fit in there (it may not). If it does, then I can work on fixing computers without dragging them into the kitchen for a high enough flat surface. If there isn't enough room (which is equally likely), I may reorganize the two desks so that one of them is more in the middle of the room; this way I'll be able to go around the other side of a tower more easily. Actually, a friend of mine is building me a large lazy susan just for twirling a tower on it (that's how he works on his machines). Imagine a platter at least two feet in diameter rolling on ball bearings with an open tower on its side. It's like an operating theater for geeks.

Okay, I'm ready to scoop the last stuff from under the bed and vacuum noisily. Wish me luck!

-hausfrau in effect, Dante

Comments

[starburstlvr.livejournal.com]

Feels great to get it all clean and organized eh?

I had kept half of my bedroom filled with boxes I hadn't unpacked - have felt much better in the months following me kicking ass and getting my apartment organized.

[ltbloodrose.livejournal.com]

hausfrau in effect

Oh dear Gods, someone jab out my third eye!

::picturing pseydtonne in a dress and frilly apron::

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Just FYI, $1.75 a month per square foot is the equivalent of a commercial property listed with a rent of $21 per square foot - they base it on the year, not the month.

I thought commercial property was supposed to be more expensive than residential property...