The Taming of the Room, or when The Learning Channel is your inspriation.

So today saw me both signing up for a new gym membership and cleaning the hell out of my living room. I sorted through an old filebox worth of papers, threw away tons of stuff (registration papers for 5 cars ago? No thank you.) and then used the resulting space to actually store the puddles of paper that had been dripping all over the living room for ages. I still have something like 5 boxes of books I need to find a place to put, but the furniture is put back where it goes, which is a big step in the right direction. Vacuums and dustrags have been used, toys have been put away, and now I'm down to figuring out where to put odds and ends so that my couch is cleared off. All in all, it's tons better. Yay me.