wow, i never realized cleaning could be so emotional!!

[bicentennial_baby]

damn...i'm cleaning out my entire room, top to bottom, and it's really throwing me for a loop :wow:

in a drawer, i have found both the remnants of my recent 5 yr relationship, but also a motherlode of photos from my previous lives, dating back at least 11 years, since i was 17. so many no-longer friends, loves, places...it's kinda rough to go through it all. i wasn't expecting this...

sigh, thanks for letting me get that out. :)

[Shine]

1. Sounds like you're doing some great emotional Feng shui...

just go with the flow, baby, go with the flow....

:hi:
Shine

edit: spelling, duh.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. that's what i keep telling myself...

it's a good thing, just weird. this room will be an entirely different place, energy wise, once i am done. i think i need to get some sage tommorrow, to make it clean in every way though. too many spirits in here tonight :)

[Shine]

5. Burn some sage. Great idea. Very cleansing and purifying.

Here's to fresh, new energy!

:toast:

[Misunderestimator]

3. Happens to me every time I move.

Those memories... those are good things... think of it as a gift to you... to allow you to evaluate all that's past to bring you where you are.

Melancholy as hell... but sometimes melancholy is the perfect thing. It's all part of the tapestry. :hug:

[Lavender Brown]

4. I know what you mean

It's not even photos sometimes, but for me, clothes and books... things that were gifts... it's amazing how emotions and memories are attached to objects. I end up being a pack rat with some things I want to hang on to. Some things I don't even want to look at and put away - even though I know I'd throw them out if I brought myself to deal with them.

[bicentennial_baby]

10. i'm throwing out stuff i should have looong ago!

i mean, years ago! it's weird, i feel like ghosts have come in here, attached to this stuff...into the garbage it goes, and then the dumpster tonight! :bounce:

[no name no slogan]

6. It's like an exorcism

I'm going to start doing the same thing this weekend.

I'm going to be cleaning out the house I shared with my ex-wife for the last 8 1/2 years of my life. After I moved out, I just took enough to set up my tiny 1 BR apartment. Considering I lived in a 3 BR house, there's still quite a bit to do.

It can be very theraputic. :)

[bicentennial_baby]

8. i'm getting there

it's just overwhelming in a way, yet, i know it's such a positive thing!

good luck to you, and i've meant to tell you, i am so so happy for you and your special lady! it's wonderful! congratulations, my friend! :hug:

[no name no slogan]

15. thank you so much!

and I'm glad to see you so happy too! :pals:

[bicentennial_baby]

16. oh i am, thank you

in fact, i don't think i've really ever been happier! it's wonderful, love. :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. boy that's got me thinking the lines of the song..."How's it gonna be

when you don't know me anymore?" That always gets me retrospective on past lives lived. :hug:

[bicentennial_baby]

9. for a 28 year old, i have too many!

it's really amazing, looking back at all of this. i'm looking at a pic of me right this minute, that was taken when i was about 18 or 19...i don't even know the person in that pic! amazing, really. :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. ...and if you are anything like me, you are amazed at how good you

looked, because you never thought you looked that good then. I should have enjoyed it while it lasted. I always do my best writing after I have looked at pictures such as you describe.

[bicentennial_baby]

14. omg, you are soooo right!

especially the pics of me hitchhiking in a bikini top and low rider jeans! :wow:

[sniffa]

11. memories

in the corner of my mind.

something, something, yada yaaaaaadaaaaaa
of the way, we werrrrreeeee.



^

pfft!! googLe image search for a streisand pic returned a joementum pic. :rofl:

i don't know why that's so funny but it is.

anyway... fucking mwah babe!!! :loveya:

[bicentennial_baby]

13. oh, you made me laugh, finally!!

:rofl: thank you darling, that was just what i needed :)

feel the joementum indeed :P

:loveya: sooooo much! :bounce:

[DS1]

17. I'll be doing the same thing this weekend

after the blaze I needed to get rid of some damaged stuff, and while I was going through all my stuff, when i picked something up i'd give myself three seconds to think about if I needed it or not - if not - out it went

This will be repeated until i'm pared down to the bare essentials - which will make moving easier x(

[Lars39]

18. I've been reading my way thru 24 yo love letters the past few days.

Strange that words can take one back to past emotions so easily.