Cleaning … Kinda

I’m a slob.

No, no … you don’t have to try to convince me otherwise. My house is generally in some sort of disorganized array, piles of stuff here and there, and I LIKE it that way.

Most of the time.

I don’t mind LIVING like a slob, but I really don’t want to socialize as a slob. I don’t want to invite people over to my place when it’s in its usual state. (My closest friends are generally exempt from that … so if you HAVE seen my house at its messy best/worst, then it’s actually a clue to just how close a friend I consider you to be.) Since I do OCCASIONALLY like to entertain, I usually clean up a LITTLE on a fairly regular basis … at least once a month or so.

Sometimes, though, I’ll go months without doing so … and then the mess begins to get overwhelming.

Recently (and by recently I mean since fall of 2008) I haven’t had any social designs and my writing schedule has been SUPER busy. So I haven’t actually cleaned up around here in the better part of a year. For the past few months it’s been bugging me slightly, and for the past few weeks it’s been bugging me INTENSELY.

So yesterday I began the process of taking BACK my living space from the forces of entropy that had claimed it. As you might guess, this is not an EASY or a QUICK process. In fact, one day in I’ve only made token headway … but it IS noticeable. (Anyone coming in for the first time, though, would be hard pressed to imagine such a thing.)

I still have A LOT of writing to do, with deadlines looming every week during July, but I’m going to TRY to continue to make progress on this front. Indeed, I NEED to because I have people coming to stay here over the weekend of San Diego Comic Con … and I am MORTIFIED by the thought that they’d have to stay somewhere as messy as this. Truth be told, THAT is my real motivating factor.

We’ll see how I do. Maybe if the place ends up being clean enough when I’m through, I’ll actually take some pictures and post them. Or maybe make large-scale prints so I can drape them OVER future messes to camouflage them.