Tuesday, June 29, 2010

admitting on a tuesday

While Emily is Blooming on a Tuesday over at Chatting at the Sky, I am admitting on a Tuesday:

I have admitted, in public, my deficiency in the sewing hormone. Now I will admit that I am also deficient in the hormone that controls my cleaning mechanism. I see that the living room is trashed, but I don't care. Messes trigger sleepiness, an intense desire to read and a tendency to surf the web, but rarely a cleaning frenzy. I will now allow the public to read my piece, now two years old, that describes my living room one afternoon in August. My house is not this bad right now, but....

at this moment on my living room floor
sometimes carol and i play
this game in which we
describe
the mess we see at the moment
it’s a coping mechanism
if someone else is as bad as
or worse than me at keeping
house
i feel better about myself
and can spend
the rest of the day reading – guilt free
at this moment
on my living room
floor -
a yardstick
chris’s new balance one lying on its side
a christianity today magazine
a dvd atop a bible
the papers I started grading yesterday
(in seven stacks)
a pair of drumsticks
a gym bag
a slingshot
hank’s nikes one lying on its side
a puzzle out of its box
operation all set up but i can’t tell who won
a sports illustrated magazine
a roll of red duct tape
half a yo-yo
a netflix mailer
two d batteries
a roll of ritz crackers half eaten
two remote controls
indiana jones in lego form
a yankees hat
a plastic parachute attached to a little man
a diminutive darth vader action figure
a pair of football pants
sans protective pads
can you beat that sister?

10 comments:

  1. my favorite is the roll of red duct tape. oh, and the half yo-yo. Love it. And I'll see your indiana jones lego man and raise you 17 naked polly pockets WITH unmatching shoes.

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  2. Honestly, how absolutely fun, and freeing!

    Someday, when I grow up I am going to play, I will really, I am.

    I so like this about you!

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  3. Love it! I can completely relate. I would add to the mess dog fur that my little boy "sweeps" up as he scoots around the floor on his belly.
    (Stopping by from Tuesdays Unwrapped)

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  4. You're better than me. I just take pictures to escape the long list. I do have a small drumset and large car garage in the middle of my floor along with a quilt with a new baby sleeping on it. Heaven.

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  5. the little things still must all be picked up at my house because of the youngest and his playmate but, somehow more and more stuff always gets dragged into that one room in the house where if you are looking for something start there.

    xoxo, sarah

    www.littlecitizensoftheworld.blogspot.com

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  6. hysterical!
    i could do this, but i would certainly top you.. just sayin'.. and my list would include live things, too. :)

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  7. Ah.... I have the full size drumset jammed into one corner of the living room followed by all the "yard sale" stuff piled onto one couch up against the wall. A book shelf filled with videos (that somehow wind up on the floor daily) and a coffee table that was perfect until the puppy decided to teethe on it's legs. sigh........
    I do lack the cleaning gene...but I'm getting better at it :)

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  8. Fantastic! So glad you shared it again at Faith Barista so I could enjoy!

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  9. Ah.... I have the full size drumset jammed into one corner of the living room followed by all the "yard sale" stuff piled onto one couch up against the wall. A book shelf filled with videos (that somehow wind up on the floor daily) and a coffee table that was perfect until the puppy decided to teethe on it's legs. sigh........
    I do lack the cleaning gene...but I'm getting better at it :)

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  10. Fantastic! So glad you shared it again at Faith Barista so I could enjoy!

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