cleanliness

I love it when everything is clean. I borrowed the vacuum yesterday from my RA. I was hoping my roommate would vacuum, because I vacuumed last time, but she never offered. And so the floor continued to get gross. Anyway, so I borrowed the vacuum and vacuumed my part of the room, and she was said she'd vacuum her part. I cleaned the fridge and got rid of all the crap that was on top of the microwave. I cleaned my booskshelf and the shelf by my bed. It's all nice now.

I don't know why I have this cleaning fixation. Everything has to be clean and organized. I have little cubbies for pens and paper clips and all that stuff. My music in my computer is all arranged by band or by movie soundtrack. I swear, on my gravestone it'll say, "She was neat." Double meaning. Haha.

Yesterday night I did the most amazing thing. If you didn't know, I'm a great spotter of pennies and other change. I've picked pennies (when they're heads up only), many dimes, and the occasional nickel. There have been more dimes than nickels, probably because they're smaller. Anyway, I've always kept this change in this coin purse I never use. Just collect it and forget about it. I keep thinking that keeping this change will give me everlasting good luck--you can imagine how much of this change I have at home! Last night, I came across my coin purse filled with my magic change. And you know what I did? I emptied it. I emptied all that lucky change into my change tin. I have this English toffee tin that's full of loose change. Whenever I'm running out of change I refill my wallet with change from the tin (I love paying in exact change!). I emptied all that change into the tin, mixing it with the regular change.

It may not seem like a huge deal, but it was to me. Letting go off all that change. It was like getting rid of this excess baggage I've always been carrying with me. It was nice to have let go. Anyway, it was all this lucky change I found last semestre. Right now, I've got a lucky penny I found by my seat in Women's Studies and a nickel I found at the dining center. I'll probably let got of all the change I find this semestre in the summer.

in the ipod: "dance with me henry" by etta james, "since i don't have you" by the skyliners, and "come softly to me" by the fleetwoods.