This being the first weekend post-thesis, I had the urge to clean. All that stuff that had been accumulating over the course of the winter months that we said to one another “we’ll take care of that when …” suddenly felt like too much and just had to go.

Even though this is a tiny apartment, we’re going to have to tackle this in stages. Stage one was our closets, which basically double as our only form of storage apart from under the bed. In addition to cleaning, we also wanted to do the great changeover of winter-to-summer clothes and linens, putting away the flannel sheets and wool sweaters until next autumn.

Here’s what we ended up gathering together for Goodwill.

At least most of it came from Goodwill in the 1st place?

And (yay!) here’s what our spectacularly organized closets looked like when we were through:

TARDIS cross-stitch courtesy of Diana

You can see floor!!

 The cat was spectacularly unimpressed and thought we should be playing with her instead.

Unimpressed cat is unimpressed

We agree with Gerry that playing string is more fun than spring cleaning any day!

Up next weekend: book organization and the kitchen cupboards!

Despite — or perhaps because of? — the fact this was a short week here in Massachusetts (they take their federal holidays seriously in the commonwealth!), I feel like I’ve been running perpetually behind the last few days and don’t have much energy or inspiration for serious blogging. So when in doubt — post photos!

Here are the latest snapshots of the newest member of our family, a two-year-old kitty who has so far refused to tell us her true name. Front-runners thus far include Maida, Zia, Romana, Sarah Jane and Lucia. So far, she seems to have a slight preference for Sarah Jane … but stay tuned for updates.



Under the tablecloth is a good place for lurking.



She seems to be picking up wicked meditation skillz from Hanna



And of course the most important task of any cat is to meet their daily quota of nap attacks!

Have a lovely weekend, and I’ll try to come up with something feminist-librarian-activist to rant about come next week!