Exceedingly Mundane

Anyone remember that old song, Rubber Band Man? Geesh, I think that’s the title. I can hear the melody in my head, which probably means it will be stuck there all day 🙂

I’ve had a “rubber band ball” for at least twenty years. I kept one in one of my deep drawers at work for years, and I have had one at home for the longest time. Don’t ask me why I keep rubber bands, but I do, and twistie ties too 🙂

I’ve been doing a lot of decluttering lately (more on that in a coming post). One of the things I cleaned out was one of the two junk drawers in my kitchen. I started with the smaller one, naturally! I found this nice Oxo drawer organizer at Marshall’s and bought it. But, my rubber band ball doesn’t fit in the drawer any more, it had gotten too big. So, I had to let go of it (although, currently, it’s in Beau’s toy box!).

Here’s my rubberband ball:

A picture of Beau playing with it, he was really confused by it, it’s heavy and bounces really funny!

And one of the final product of the junk drawer (sorry, didn’t take a “before photo”, but believe me, it was messier than this!):

It’s actually nice to open that drawer and look for something now!

Well, I had decided to give up the ole blog, and stop blogging. I haven’t blogged in over a month and a half, you know. Between Twitter and Facebook, as well as the non-computer things in my life, I just didn’t see a need to keep blogging. After all, I’ve been blogging for about 4 1/2 years, so I really felt like I didn’t have anything else left to say.

Then…

I couldn’t remember when we had done something or bought something, and I went to my blog to look and see if I could find out when. And as I was scrolling through past entries, I realized it’s a great way to keep up with what we’re doing, look back at things, and remember what was going on, both the big things and little things in our life. Plus, Tim did his normal “you shouldn’t give it up, you don’t have to do it all the time, you know”.

So, if I can figure out how to do this again, I might be back with some really mundane blog posts 🙂

To tide you over, here’s what makes me smile the last couple of days. Tim surprised me with some beautiful red roses. Just because 🙂