Tales of a Traveling Bookcase

Mr. Lack-a-like has been busy over the course of this month. He and I had been having a bit of a difficult time trying to determine where he would live. So over the past few weeks, he’s traveled to various parts of the house in an effort to find his semi-permanent home.

I think the issue began when I pushed my experiment up next to him…

In my defense though, as handsome as I think he is, the wall looked a little naked with him sitting there all by himself.

At any rate, his travelling began. His first stop was my bedroom. I had an empty corner that was unoccupied, so I let him stay there. But after the third day, he had to go.

And since my bedside table is being used in my bedroom, I let Mr. Lack-a-like try his hand at holding down the entryway.

But he was much too tall and skinny to do the job to my liking,

so his wandering continued. We were giving up hope, and were on our way back to where we started when he suggested the empty wall in the kitchen.

It wasn’t the worst stop on his journey, but I have other plans for that particular spot.

In the end, we found a home for poor Mr. Lack-a-like,

right in between my desk,

and the Kivik (which is about due for a new cover).

In the end, both I and Mr. Lack-a-like were pleased with his new home.

And that is all for now. Talk to you in the next one!

I Saved my Vacuum’s Life

Not too long ago, my Hoover vacuum died. And today, I was almost certain that the new eureka! was going to face the same fate.

To be honest, I wasn’t even too unhappy about it, as I really hate the thing. I don’t think it’s good for anything other than cleaning up pet hair (which it does quite well), but as far as regular vacuuming goes, it does a lot of pushing things around, and shooting the stuff it’s supposed to be sucking up out and all over the place. It takes far too long to clean up any type of normal mess. I wouldn’t mind a replacement. But then again, I would have been on to vacuum number 3, in under a year  because of toy invasion.

Anyway, I guess Iron Man was on some legit exploration mission today because he managed to get caught up in my “purple spitter.”

And I mean, he was really lodged in there. I thought we were going to have to get rid of both the toy and this vacuum…

After about 15 minutes of wiggling and pulling and twisting the red super hero, I was pretty content to just leave him in there.

But the food on the floor behind him was bothering me.

So I worked a bit harder a few minutes more, and managed to pry him out, and get my floor fairly clean. I don’t like carpet. I never really feel like it’s truly clean. Eventually I want to lay down hardwood floors, but I’m saving that post for another day.

Happy vacuuming!

My Scary Bathroom

Sigh...In an effort to keep the momentum for October organizing going, I’ve decided to tackle my bathroom. On a normal day,  it looks like this:

Everything I use up on the counter, and all over the place…which again confirms the fact that I need a vanity. (I’ll stop whining)

But even the drawers were a mess. I’ll only show you one…anymore than that might embarrass me.

But with a little bit of cleaning,

sorting,

tossing out old products, and some organizing,

I managed to improve the state of my bathroom.

My skincare basket is still a bit messy, but with regular use, I think it’s inevitable.

For now though, the cleaning shall continue.

Next up, my closet.

DUN DUN DUUUUN!

But we’ll save that for another day.

Until then, fare well!