Today

Today I cleaned the house. Really, really cleaned it.

I removed every item from every surface in the house and dusted under it. This really made me wish I had less stuff, but when I was done and everything was clean and smelled lovely it totally seemed worth it.

Allergy season is in full swing here in the desert, so I'm extra concerned with the house being clean. I'm allergic to the cats, as I'm sure you know, and as long as the house is kept reasonably clean I don't really notice it much. However, during allergy season when I'm already itchy and miserable it becomes a real problem if the house isn't immaculate all of the days.

Outside allergies + inside allergies = misery.

In other news, I bought a whole bunch of Halloween decorations. Okay, maybe not a whole bunch, but a lot for me! Ahahaha.

Anyway. Among them I got a whole bunch of purple fairy lights. (Because, really, who doesn't need purple fairy lights?) Well, I went home and tried to figure out what I was going to do with them when genius struck: I would fill my room with them.

I know, I know, you're thinking aren't you maybe just a little too old for this? And you could be right. Perhaps I am. But you know what? The last five years of my life have been soooooo serious. So full of terrible grown up decisions and constantly being the oldest person in the room, and acting my age, and working hard all the freaking time, and now I just want a little space for me that is just pure whimsey.

So that's my goal. My bedroom is now on its way to being a magical place. One that is full of whimsey and fun and all things LittleFoot. I've earned that.

I covered the ceiling in purple fairy lights.

I converted the double fish tank stand (it was built to hold 2 125 gallon tanks and is 2.5x7ft) into a two tiered fortress. The bottom half is my permanent blanket fort. I am working on covering/padding the bottom surface of it, but for now it's just full of pillows. The top half is my reading corner. I put the gaming chair up there along with a small table with a reading lamp and some fuzzy blankets and fluffy pillows. It makes me pretty happy. I may or may not build a ladder for it, I haven't quite decided yet.

I also bought a series of coat hangers/hooks today, with the intention of hanging up my hat collection so that they weren't just stacked precariously atop one glass head any longer, but that didn't work out so much. I have a lot of felt cloche hats, and they really need more of a hat rack, they just slip right off the coat hooks. I did manufacture a solution to this by making some ribbon loops and pinning them to the inside of the hats, but then decided that this process defeated the simplicity of the hat hooks in the first place. Instead I've hung them at various heights near the door for purses, scarves, and coats, as well as in the hall and in the bathroom for, you know, whatever. I'm pretty happy about all that.

Oh! I also (finally) cleaned out my old kerosene lamp and filled it with scented oil instead. It smells very lovely. Much better than kerosene.

That's all I know Dear Friend. I miss you terribly, and I wish you were here.

Lots of love.