Our nurdy new year’s eve plans
DJ had a week off. We don’t party. So we just made a lot of sweet sweet love, and also created six killer episodes (two of one podcast, four of the other.)
Then:
DECEMBER 28: Cleaned the house top to bottom, including vacuuming and dusting everything.
DECEMBER 29: Went through all our receipts for the year, organized for taxes. Created spreadsheets to give our accountant in a couple months.
DECEMBER 30: Backed up everything on both computers to disc AND to backup drive. Shredded old backup DVDs. Virus scanned and defragged computers.
DECEMBER 31: Did spring cleaning. Removed EIGHT GARBAGE BAGS OF old clothes, old dishes, and other assorted crap….some of it from DJ’s first marriage, when her now-adult offspring were little kids.
Drove garbage bags to dumpster drop at Catholic charity, three towns over. (Our town is too snooty to have a charity. Might attract “the wrong element”.) The car was so full we looked like the Beverley Hillbillies driving it.
Shredded two garbage bags of decade-old tax records, crap from when we were in college and even from when we were kids…and assorted newspaper clippings, old bills, etc. etc.
Some of this cleaning, sorting and shredding was kinda emotional, but felt good when we were done. Like the house (and us) had taken a HUGE dump. (And at one point, our big industrial shredder gave a warning message: “Overheating. Please discontinue use for 30 minutes”, so we did. Was fine after the wait.)
Now we’re all ready for the new year. Yay us!
We’re staying in. I hate going out on New Year’s Eve. It’s dangerous and full of drunken fools.
In AA, they call it “amateur night”.
January 1st, 2008 at 2:15 am
getting rid of old stuff can make one feel much lighter and relived.
exaclty like taking a dump.
January 1st, 2008 at 6:31 am
Last time I underwent a “spring cleaning” type thing, there was lots of screaming, crashing, throwing things, tearful anguish. I had to confront searing, painful memories of things I thought I’d left behind. There was blood. The police became involved. JUST EXACTLY like taking a dump!
January 1st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I spent New Years in my own typical fashion, tucked in bed, asleep. Best sleep I’ve had in a long time. My building is real quiet as everyone else is out getting shitfaced.
It’s just another day to me with the same celebration. No big deal.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 am
I always knew you were a Shredder!
[musical joke]
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 am
And you’re a Strummer!
(same).
MWD
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
I like Skip’s joke better.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 am
Well, you like Skip better! Lol……
Also, the Clash broke up the year you were born. Skip and I cut our rock teeth listening to Joe Strummer.
MWD
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
Andy and i commenced cleaning on New Year’s day, after spending lots of quality time curled on the couch together. Got about 3 bags of junk out, and took 3 bags of clothing to Goodwill. Man you two are inspiring!
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Yay you, Erin! Glad we could help, even if it’s just us blabbing about stuff we do.
January 4th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
We spent the New Years Eve and News Year Day playing Dungeons and Dragons with some friends, including our daughter…. Talk about nerdy, but then we started on the cleaning and reoganizing the next day….:)