now that the weather has eased up a bit, i'm suddenly freezing cold all the time. i'm wearing three layers of woolly socks but have the feet of a corpse. spicy cocoa didn't help, nor did leftover root veggie roast fried on the pan. (almost wrote something witty about a pot-o-toes recipe, but thought better of it.)
i've been trying to battle the chaos in my apartment. again. the consistency of the stacks and mounds changes, but the bulk of it remains the same. i've joked about my style being hoarder chic, but it's not that funny. my home is limiting my life, which is limited enough as it is. i cleared the entryway for the inspection people (plumbing renovation, not my accumulation habit) only to hear comments about things being cramped. SIGH.
five more square metres and it would be a whole different story, i swear.
so, storage and organization is key here, thus i started a folder for the genealogy papers. i glued on an animal cut out of camilla engman's fabulous envelope (her address was inside the speech bubble) and stamped on the title. actually, i did it the other way around, letters first. tutkimus means study or investigation, and it's one of those finnish words that are quite common, everyday stuff, but when i start to think about it... it begins to sound a little funny in an old-fashioned, amusing way. almost like an entity or event with a will of its own.
i also tried to decorate closet doors with masking tape blossoms but they look more like bullet wounds. it gave me an idea, though. now if only i had a big wall to paint...
