Creampuff Can See the Floor

Last week, when I cleaned off my desk, I felt so damn pleased with myself that I decided that this weekend, I would tackle our mechanical room/storage room. As the person in charge of the horror that is the mechanical room, it was very empowering to finally Kon Mari the hell out of it, with the kind assistance of Drtr (loading the car, driving me to the recycle centre, taking things surreptitiously to the dumpster across the street under cover of darkness) and Katr (empty box breakdown, random "what's in this old bin?" sorting, key decision making on keep/toss items, all-important "where should we take all this?" research).

Cleaning out the mechanical room has three major benefits:

1. We can finally get to the water heaters at the back of the room where Kong, the magical man who comes every year to flush out our radiant heating system, left his phone number. 
   
   
2. With Shoebox Project for Shelters stuff piling up, it's nice to have a little more room to stash things.
   
   
3. A lot of my Dickens Village stuff is in there (oh, and all of our Christmas decorations but whatever IT'S VILLAGE TIME, MOTHERFUCKERS!)

Like an idiot, I failed to take a "before" photograph, but rest assured it was embarrassing and looked something like this:

 I did manage to take an action shot of the dog, wondering WTF all this crap was doing in the the hallway:

And then, when I was finished, YOU COULD SEE THE FLOOR!!!

Pretty magical.

The most magical thing about this whole process was that Katr discovered just how close the recycling centre is to us! We've been driving way the hell out to recycle all our boxes, not knowing that an even better recycle centre exists a mere 5 minute drive away. They take EVERYTHING we've been "meaning to get rid of" - vacuum cleaners! Lightbulbs! Electronics! Plus the guy there was very helpful. Recycling rules!!

Now that the mechanical room is clean, it's time to start my favourite holiday tradition - THE VILLAGE! I have it on good authority that Rosewood Cross's Development Office has a new addition to the village this year, so get ready.