random thoughts – Day 1,916 – (Sunday) – discipline, clutter, and trinkets

The schedule is sliding into summer mode. There is no dance on Sundays for a while, which meant staying up too late reading on Saturday night and then oversleeping this morning. It doesn’t take much to bounce me off a disciplined schedule.

The house, close to pristine since last weekend, is a bit less tidy and disciplined today, too. I'm kind of surprised it lasted as long as it did, and now I need to get it back on the ready for real estate showings track.

Laundry was done today, including the special items that need the in-home dry cleaning treatment. Today it was the large-ish blue, white, and silver fabric pieces with white fringe. When I bought them in a thrift shop in Tennessee, they were tagged as a tablecloth with two placemats. I tossed it on my dining room table and it looked great with the white leather dining chairs and lived there for a while. 

Laundered and now in the way.

Closer examination of the “placemats” revealed them to be pillow shams, which meant the “tablecloth” is really a lightweight bedspread. In any event, the small pieces have sat in the center of a table under a vase and the large piece has been used as both a dining room table cloth and also hung over a tension rod to be used as a wall hanging in the little alcove behind my bed. 

As a wall hanging, it was a great focal piece for the bedroom, but after months without incident, the rod started losing its grip and kept falling down and I finally gave up. Then it sat on a chair in the bedroom for a while, then in the laundry basket where it wasn’t in the way of anything, but now that it’s cleaned, it needs a proper place to be. 

For now, the three cleaned pieces are neatly folded on the dining table. And this, my friends, is how the clutter innocently and insipidly begins to creep in, and sometimes an empty laundry basket isn’t the triumph it’s imagined it will be. These pieces don’t fit in the buffet drawer with the vintage table linens so they may just be immediately packed up in a box to cushion some dishes. 

Bollywood accessories
are delivered and ready.

Fresh laundry clutter aside, the rest of the day was relaxing. The costume jewelry for our Bollywood style dance, ordered from Amazon for the quick delivery, arrives two days later than expected when bought, but still in time for tomorrow’s dress rehearsal and Tuesday’s show. There is a multicolored necklace with matching earrings, golden bangles, and my favorite – a set of four anklets with multicolor bells, which, when found advertised as “cat collars with bells” are a fraction of the cost of dancer anklets.” Score! No point spending a fortune on something for a four-minute dance. 

They may be promoted as a cat accessory, but I don't plan to try to get one on Kiki as a collar, it would likely freak her out. I still haven’t managed to get her collar with name tag and my phone number on her.