slow but steady

Progress has been made in the master bedroom. We've brought in the stainless steel shelf unit that had been a big eyesore in the dining room (it doesn't really belong in here either, but at least I don't have to see it every day) and my mom was good enough to get rid of some of her clothes. I've been tossing (recycling) a lot of the papers that were floating around in there, some of which had become infested with yucky carpet beetles---you better believe that carpet was filthy before I got the vacuum in there. I'm tempted to just throw the rest of the stuff in a box (or maybe 20 boxes, or 50) and drop it all off at Goodwill, except that I know my mom will come back for a visit one day and say, "what happened to my unusable telephone with the frayed wire?" or "why'd you get rid of that pile of broken picture frames? I was going to use those!" So I've only been getting rid of the things that I'm pretty sure she's forgotten about and wouldn't miss, and that we couldn't possibly have any use for in the near future.

It's still not that presentable, but it looks great compared to how it was in July and December of last year:


Makes me tired, just looking at those pictures!