Trying to arrange my studio, in the hopes that improving the work space will help me get back into actually doing art. It's incredibly annoying and difficult, because Mystery lives in here and can't be let out. Ideally the way to rearrange a room is to empty it out and then bring things back in, but that's sort of hard to do when the door has to stay closed because of the cat. Also with said cat underfoot and/or cowering in terror. But I seem to be making some progress.
I'm considering getting rid of a lot of my videos. Like almost all of them. I never watch them anymore. Seems like the most I do is pop in LotR while I'm sewing or something. I have a rather ridiculous collection of Mystery Science Theater 3000, but haven't watched any of them in forever. No desire to. My husband can't stand it so we obviously don't watch it together. Without the chance to make new memories to associate with it...sitting alone in my room watching MSTy isn't all that fun and is in fact a rather painful reminder of things lost. Like being tethered to my past with barbed wire.
I think a lot of my books are going to go, as well. I've unpacked my ST:TNG, Conan, and Dragonlance books, but haven't really read any. Well, the Weis/Hickman Dragonlance books have gotten re-read, but I haven't touched the others yet despite the fact that they've been in storage for about a decade.
The idea of getting rid of a lot of my old things certainly isn't a new one for me. I know that a great deal of what's still in storage is no longer remotely relevant and will be disposed of in some fashion. What I'm not sure of right now is how much of this is genuine personal change and moving on, and how much is just whatever pre-mid-life crisis I'm having.
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