spoiled chinese girl

In an attempt to not flood people with nothing but walls of text, because really, who wants to read that much text without a few photos thrown in once in a while?

I mean, I guess if I’m to ramble on and on about myself in a blog, at least it’s *my* blog, and not someone else’s blog. And all the stories are 100% relevant to the subject of the blog, me. Also any photos I post are relevant to the post that I’m writing about, also about me.  And don’t get me started on the time that it was fashionable to have an onion on my belt!

So here is a photo of a print out of an x-ray my dentist took in March 2009.  I needed the x-ray done, and I thought it was cool that my facial piercings showed up in it.  Apparently my dentist lives in the dark ages because they could only print out the xray for me, since no one had a way to e-mail it or anything.

I just found it again in my rummaging and purging so I thought I would share.

Cool huh?

Okay so I kind of tricked you all.  I didn’t want to make big huge long winded posts. It seems the more one person writes, the less people want to read.  And I’m kind of a wordy person.

So yesterday’s post covered the starting point in my “purge” cycle.  But this is a biggie. It deserved it’s own post.

I’m purging my BME collection.  I used to be known as “The girl who bought everything” and I really couldn’t help it. Everything that was put out, was awesome. I loved the simple designs, and the funny/catchy slogans (probably from being such a wordy person) I loved the inside jokes and the puns.  But I felt like I had too much, and saw an opportunity to “cash in” a little bit and sold off the majority of the purchased shirts to a good friend of mine a few years ago, it made me feel better knowing it was someone I knew that was going to take care of “my collection.”

Of the shirts that were left, basically stuff I thought it would be in bad taste to sell.  Event shirts that reminded me of events I attended, Top contributor shirts that were basically thank you gifts and the very exclusive “saints set” from SPC (13 shirts in the set, and only 13 sets were ever printed… as far as I was lead to believe)

I always had two different projects in mind for these shirts after I realized I’d never wear them.

1. T-shirt quilt. A lot of people do this and it seemed like a great way to display a huge collection of shirts without having to show them on the body.  Also it would be soft and warm and snuggly for the winter time. Of which there is plenty being that I live in Canada.
2. Throw pillows. Basically turning the shirts into pillowcases for the square throw pillows, then having them strewn about the house. This plan would have required me to have my own house to have all these throw pillows as well.

But with both those plans I lacked a much needed sewing machine, didn’t know anyone who had one I could borrow, and while I thought it’d be good… never did look into investing in one.

So I decided it was time to purge the whole thing.  I told my friend San (www.sandorfalot.com) of this plan to list the t-shirts for $5.00 a piece… and she asked to have first crack.  Considering she’s also a top contributor and attended as many of the same events as me that she could… I didn’t feel so bad about it. Also that she’s a good friend made it safe since she would also “Take care of my collection.”

Final count? 34 t-shirts and 4 hoodies, all BME and/or modification related that for years and years I just couldn’t part with. And this photo below will be my remaining memory. Really hastily taken photos to show San what I was going to sell to her. Eh. Too lazy to unpack the two garbage bags of shirts to do them again neater. This will do just fine.

Edit: D’oh. Sandorf can’t afford the shirts when we meet up in September so hopefully in October some time I’ll be able to unload this plethora of shirts. It will be more hoodie season by then which will make more sense! (What is a plethora anyways?)

No I don’t have an eating disorder.  I have a hoarding problem. Well, not REALLY a hoarding problem like you would see on Hoarders or Hoarders Buried Alive… but still I feel like I have too much stuff and it would do some good to minimize it down.

Clothing is easy, yet difficult to minimize.  This probably stems from my mother, who I think really is quite the hoarder.  My mom has the biggest walk-in closet in the house with a closet organizer installed, plus the closet in my computer room, plus the closet in my dad’s room. Plus two stand-alone hanging bars, plus a coat rack, plus a big hand-carved Chinese chest-thing. Plus the insides of the drawers in a 9 piece bedroom set, plus all the horizontal space on top of the bedroom set, plus the top of that chest-thing, plus a patio table(?!) that for some reason is in the closet.  That’s a lot of clothing.

The sort of irritating part about a lot of the clothes in all of these spaces? They’re mine. Generally t-shirts or sweat pants or gym shorts that I didn’t want to wear anymore.  That my mom thought “was too good to just give away.”  So she “rescued” them… to sleep in them, or do house work in them or whatever.  So my mom still has shirts that I’d planned to give/donate away probably from 10 years ago.  I swears, one of these days (when my mom isn’t home) I’m going to go through those clothes and grab what I know is mine to toss once & for all!

Anyways, the secret to this seems to be bag everything immediately, so my mom can’t go digging through piles of clothing. And I’ve had two garbage bin bags of clothes and one of shoes that have been sitting in the corner of the room marked for Clothesline (http://www.diabetes.ca/get-involved/supporting-us/clothesline/) to pick up for… probably a good 8-9 months.

I should have called earlier because some time last year they had a contest for a vacation to one lucky person who called in for a pick up, but never bothered calling.  Although I found out last night they now have an online form to request a pick up, so hopefully I’ll get a call or e-mail back in a day or so telling me when they’ll be in the area next.

And I’m sure someone will be excited about the idea that I also sorted through my underwear drawer (and sock drawer… although that’s probably less exciting… unless you’re into that kind of thing) and have sorted out the ones as keepers from the ones I really should get rid of.  The fun part about this is… it means the stuff I can get rid of, I can wear, then toss. I generally save these bits of clothing for the next time I go on vacation, because I just wear & toss while on vacation, and voila! Less dirty/smelly laundry to bring home!

In my random rummagings, I also found that I have a whole lot of prescription eyeglasses that I no longer wear… and I really should get rid of those too.  So I googled around and found that Hakim Optical has a program for donated eye glasses (http://www.hakimoptical.ca/donate.html) so I’ve bagged up 5 or 6 pairs that I’ll have to drive around with until I find a store that’s open to drop them off. So now I should just have the glasses on my face, my previous pair (if I only knew where they were!) and one pair of prescription sunglasses I just found. And a few boxes of weekly contacts that I got a few years back… they’re still good I think.

This actually is quite exciting. I’m going to need to continue this & see where it leads me.

Because I really do think I have an obscene amount of stuff… even though when compared to most “normal” suburban people, I probably don’t.

• Me:1 Boss: 0. B: Are you guys tired & cranky too? M: Yes! B: But you're a woman! M: And I'm on my period! (I'm not but it was a good laugh!) #
• Tonight = Seeing my snugglyboo. Saturday = Kebra's Wedding I'm photographing. Sunday = #FanExpo with Boyfriend! Squee! My first EVAR Nomnom! #
• I got to watch my snuggly-boo use powertools so he could install his Klingon Bat'leth that now hangs above my head when we sleep *rollseyes* #
• No Fan Expo line=ridiculous Buskerfest=Awesome Snuggley-boo answers when I call him that & he called me sweetie today (1st) Only cost me $25 #

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Ah what a way to walk into work this morning… to spam. Lots of spam. And not the tasty kind that you can put on a stick and deep fry. (Why is there no deep fried spam at the CNE?)

And what do I hate more than spamming idiots? People who hit reply all to spamming idiots.

Seriously. Why would you put the other 400 some odd people who already suffered the fate of the originating e-mail, now I have to go through and delete all of your unwanted opinions as well?

I had the great idea to e-mail each person individually and teach them e-mail ettiquete but I realized it would be coming from my work e-mail address and that would likely be a bad thing.

Therefore, personally, I take the high-road, delete, stay silent, and blog for all to see.

I should be wearing my I’m blogging this shirt. I also need another one of those, but I think they’ve been discontinued. That makes Angela sad.

Here is the original e-mail:

In closing, Jerome Nelson of Van Nuys, CA… F*ck you.

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