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I'm back from a bit less than three weeks in San Diego, the first bit of which was Christmas Fun and the last two weeks of which were Going Through Boxes - my parents did some major renovations this fall, and so everything in my old room got boxed up and spent awhile living in the PODS. This included a great many things that I'd stuffed into my desk or closet and then forgotten, and so a main goal of the trip was to sort through it all, or as much as I could get through, finding things to discard, give away, take back to Boston, or at least repack in an orderly and condensed fashion.
And *boy* did I have Things. Highlights of the trip, or, the Amy's Stuff Awards:
Single Strangest/Funniest Item: four-inch-tall clay voodoo doll of my sister, with real hair trimmings, wearing sewn clothes like an actual outfit she had. There was a little blindfold over the eyes, I guess I was trying to get her to not notice something? ::grin:: (As far as I dimly remember, I made this more for entertainment/the fun of the project than out of any superstitious belief that it would do anything...)
Heteronormativity Award: pink plastic heart-shaped box emblazoned "Poochie For Girls", containing a pink heart-shaped notepad, small pencil, pink heart-shaped eraser, "I Love You" rubber stamp, pink puffy stickers, pink heart-shaped picture frame, and album to fill in about your crushes, consisting of five or six sets of pages to fill in like "Paste His Picture Here", "The First Time I Saw Him", and "What Makes My Heart Beat So".
Most Fun To Read: travel journals dating back to 1985.
Unexpected Body Part Award: no, not the head; a dried, severed bird foot in a plastic bag. It was with the craft supplies, with a bunch of feathers.
Nostalgic Things I Made That I Don't Want (But My Mother Is Keeping): ugly, dusty grade-school pottery and artificial-flower type craft projects.
Nostalgic Things I Made That I Totally Still Want: ugly, dusty grade-school woodworking projects and model rockets.
Overall Winner, Most Major Thing No Longer In The House, By Quantity: six full paper grocery bags of paper, mostly old school papers. I spent the bulk of my time sorting papers and managed to reduce the overall volume by maybe 60%.
Runner Up, Most Major Thing No Longer In The House, By Quantity: nearly one hundred pounds of old baby clothes and baby and toddler toys, crossing the country to me by UPS in seven big boxes as I write this. (My mom had saved a lot of stuff; this wasn't even all of it, just what I thought we might use.)
Most Major Thing No Longer In The House, Single Bulky Object/Single Item My Dad Is Most Pleased To See Go: my four old science project backboards, in all their 4'x'3' foam-core garage-occupyingness.
Most Major Thing I Totally Failed To Do Anything About, By Quantity: one dresser drawer and one box entirely full of sentimental old T-shirts from things like summer camp and Science Olympiad. I have this vague notion I might make a quilt??
Runner Up, Most Major Thing I Totally Failed To Do Anything About: my jewelry drawer. I guess I have an entire drawer full of old junk jewelry? ::blinks:: Except I think somewhere in that drawer is a) my old diary key and b) a bunch of things I made, so I don't want to just toss it all. Maybe the meeple will consider this a fabulous treasure trove to explore and I'll be able to sort through it on a future trip, which I did not think would be true of the papers.
and, finally, Biggest Surprise: the head in the trunk. I should probably clarify here that this was my mom's old doll trunk - we had found a cardboard box of her old doll clothes, raising the question, what was in the trunk? Neither of us expected the head! I should probably also clarify that this was a styrofoam head for displaying wigs, and not an organic head of any sort.
And *boy* did I have Things. Highlights of the trip, or, the Amy's Stuff Awards:
Single Strangest/Funniest Item: four-inch-tall clay voodoo doll of my sister, with real hair trimmings, wearing sewn clothes like an actual outfit she had. There was a little blindfold over the eyes, I guess I was trying to get her to not notice something? ::grin:: (As far as I dimly remember, I made this more for entertainment/the fun of the project than out of any superstitious belief that it would do anything...)
Heteronormativity Award: pink plastic heart-shaped box emblazoned "Poochie For Girls", containing a pink heart-shaped notepad, small pencil, pink heart-shaped eraser, "I Love You" rubber stamp, pink puffy stickers, pink heart-shaped picture frame, and album to fill in about your crushes, consisting of five or six sets of pages to fill in like "Paste His Picture Here", "The First Time I Saw Him", and "What Makes My Heart Beat So".
Most Fun To Read: travel journals dating back to 1985.
Unexpected Body Part Award: no, not the head; a dried, severed bird foot in a plastic bag. It was with the craft supplies, with a bunch of feathers.
Nostalgic Things I Made That I Don't Want (But My Mother Is Keeping): ugly, dusty grade-school pottery and artificial-flower type craft projects.
Nostalgic Things I Made That I Totally Still Want: ugly, dusty grade-school woodworking projects and model rockets.
Overall Winner, Most Major Thing No Longer In The House, By Quantity: six full paper grocery bags of paper, mostly old school papers. I spent the bulk of my time sorting papers and managed to reduce the overall volume by maybe 60%.
Runner Up, Most Major Thing No Longer In The House, By Quantity: nearly one hundred pounds of old baby clothes and baby and toddler toys, crossing the country to me by UPS in seven big boxes as I write this. (My mom had saved a lot of stuff; this wasn't even all of it, just what I thought we might use.)
Most Major Thing No Longer In The House, Single Bulky Object/Single Item My Dad Is Most Pleased To See Go: my four old science project backboards, in all their 4'x'3' foam-core garage-occupyingness.
Most Major Thing I Totally Failed To Do Anything About, By Quantity: one dresser drawer and one box entirely full of sentimental old T-shirts from things like summer camp and Science Olympiad. I have this vague notion I might make a quilt??
Runner Up, Most Major Thing I Totally Failed To Do Anything About: my jewelry drawer. I guess I have an entire drawer full of old junk jewelry? ::blinks:: Except I think somewhere in that drawer is a) my old diary key and b) a bunch of things I made, so I don't want to just toss it all. Maybe the meeple will consider this a fabulous treasure trove to explore and I'll be able to sort through it on a future trip, which I did not think would be true of the papers.
and, finally, Biggest Surprise: the head in the trunk. I should probably clarify here that this was my mom's old doll trunk - we had found a cardboard box of her old doll clothes, raising the question, what was in the trunk? Neither of us expected the head! I should probably also clarify that this was a styrofoam head for displaying wigs, and not an organic head of any sort.
