Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A Brief Inventory

I won't say that it necessarily indicates a lack of housekeeping skills on my part, but here's an inventory of what's on my living room coffee table this morning.

  • 14 magazines

  • A pile of loose notebook paper

  • A spiral bound notebook

  • A popsicle stick

  • a plastic zipper bag filled with colored pencils

  • Assorted loose colored pencils

  • An electric pencil sharpener

  • A hand pencil sharpener

  • A glass egg roughly the size of a quail egg

  • two remote controls

  • A Nintendo DSi

  • a blue "gertie"inflated ball

  • two pairs of reading glasses, one of which has only one leg

  • two strings of mardi gras beads

  • A Weight Watchers cookbook

  • A folded cloth napkin. Possibly clean. Or not.

  • A Webelos Scouts neckerchief

  • A bottle of hand lotion

  • A bendy straw

  • A deck of cards

  • Three "Gogos" stickers

  • A tin collectors box full of "Gogos"

  • Three envelopes of mystery mail

  • A plastic box containing almost exactly 10 pounds of marbles

  • nail clippers

  • A stack of coasters (these, ironically, are at the farthest possible distance from anywhere a person might reasonably be expected to set down a drink)

  • A blue paper notice alerting me that the city will be turning off my water from 10 to 2 today for water line repairs

  • Two packets of vegetable seeds (corn and okra)

  • Instruction booklet for the Cox television system installed several months ago

  • A laminated card with a passcode on it to some math website for Grayson

  • A manga comic book

  • Two paperbacks: one children's, one adults

  • A letter from Grayson to his friend in Houston, unposted

  • A box of "pop-its" snappers

  • An opened package of "pop-its" snappers, leaking sawdust

  • A rock

  • The plastic cover to a Capri Sun straw

  • Two CD cases for audio books: One adult, one children

  • A 4 x 4 sample of knitting

  • A Blasters album (vinyl) in its sleeve (thanks Michael!)

  • A cd with collected songs by James McMurtry (thanks Konrad!)

  • A Calvin and Hobbes book

  • A large picture book of archaeological findings

  • A Yu-gi-Oh card

  • A Boomerang gift card (cool!)

  • a torn piece of the back cover of a pocket folder, stuck to the table surface with some sticky substance

  • My netbook (until I picked it up to post this)

  • Three candles in class containers (These actually belong here)

  • One candle, still in wrapping (this does not)

  • A wooden box filled with glass beads

  • A Swiss army knife

  • scattered pencil shavings

  • A glass holiday coaster that is meant to hold a photograph but doesn't have one in it

  • A half-full box of colored pencils

  • An emory board for foot calluses (in my defense, I was not using it to sand down my feet in the living room, I was using it to shorten my acrylic nails so I could use my hands again)

That's it. It's possible that some excavation could reveal further treasures, but that's all for now.


You can draw your own conclusions.

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