Enjablog

In an attempt to use some of my use-or-lose PTO, I worked a half-day today and came home with energy and a vision. I decided it was time to face my closet.

When I moved into my condo 3 years ago, I unpacked most of my stuff, assigning each item a place. As I got to the end of my piles of boxes, I lost motivation and decided I could get to this stuff “later.” They were in the way, though, so I put them in the closet. You know, for later.

Out of the 6 boxes I emptied, these were some of the highlights:
1. What is a gang?
2. Protect your family from lead in your home.
3. A film camera. I haven’t used this camera in 5 years. I also haven’t developed the film currently in the camera, which has pictures from my friends’ graduation in 2003. I didn’t develop them because the roll wasn’t finished. I didn’t finish the roll because I got a digital camera. So, I put it away in the closet. I don’t even know if those pictures will even develop now… or if I’ll even recognize the people in the pictures… Is it even worth it?
4. An emergency thermal blanket… for my car, boat, or camping.
5. My Smithsonian volunteer ID. I last volunteered with them in 2004 and was supposed to return it within 6 months of quitting.
6. A birthday card from Squidgey for my 23rd birthday.
7. Postcards from my trip to celebrate the centennial of flight at Kitty Hawk… in 2003.
8. Al-Qaida Tactics and Operation Enduring Freedom. I’m almost certain these belong to my brother from before his deployment to Afghanistan. I have no idea why I have them.
9. A Powerpuff Girls Valentine.
10. Two unlabeled floppy disks. I have no idea what’s on them or how to find out.
11. Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker. Don’t remember where I would have gotten this.
12. A canister of pepper spray that expired in 2006.
13. Headphones that have been missing since I moved in 2005. I knew I still had them. I was about 99% sure that it was in one of my boxes in the closet. I am so cheap that I refused to buy a new pair of [$15] headphones because I knew I had a perfectly good pair already. I just couldn’t bring myself to empty out the whole closet to find them.
14. An issue of Psychology Today that belongs to my brother, dated December 2003.
15. A McDonalds pedometer, circa 2004.
16. Snorkel & mask.

Oh my goodness! I can’t believe I forgot to blog about boob tape when I wrote about my high school reunion. Must not forget.

On Saturday, there was a picnic in the morning/mid-day at TJ, which I reluctantly passed on so I could actually get stuff done that weekend. Ian and I met up with Elf, Justin, and Catherine for a quick dinner before going to the fancy night out at the Westin. I volunteered to set up a slide show on Dellilah (without previously considering the implications of a laptop around drunk people with finger foods, but it all worked out), so got my hands on some nice pictures from high school.

Much of the evening went as it did the previous night. We were dressed nicer, but the same cliques tended to migrate toward each other. As the evening wore on, the music got louder, and more and more people ended up in the hallway outside the ballroom. And then we joked about how our 20-year reunion would be at Bob’s Big Boy for the early bird special.

After the pseudo-prom came to a close, a group of us went in high school fashion over to Silver Diner for additional reminiscing. Instead of talking about embarrassing high school stories, though, we ended up finding out that my former classmate is the mastermind behind CupcakeFetish. The rest of the night was lost to cupcake-related inquiries. I am so jealous of her life.