Cleaned up dining table area of living room, 5/12/2004:

  1. My paper cutter. Not needed until summer academy tickets (click here to see some of my recent tickets)
  2. All of the ad flyers and other crap that come with the Sunday Snooze. I never read this stuff and can't figure out why it didn't ALREADY go out with the recycling!
  3. Today's Wall St. Journal, which I won't have time to read until later
  4. 7 rubber bands of the variety Al at the back of the post office approves of and and 3 rubber bands of the sort *not* approved by Al at the back of the post office
  5. 2 hairbrushes, yes I know it's gross to put a hairbrush on a dining table!
  6. Catalogs: Pottery Barn, Coldwater Creek, Pottery Barn Kids, TravelSmith, Title nine, Delia's
  7. Keys: van, honda, jeep, house, academy & estate
  8. Thank you note
  9. Clean water action flyer
  10. Mailing tape from mailing Connecticut Yankee videos and Patrick's t-shirt
  11. Innovative Garage and Basements LLC postcard
  12. Magazines: Flutetalk (sheesh! didn't even SEE this!), Cicada, LuxEsto, New Yorker (Aug. 11!), Beadwork (2 issues), Threads (Threads, Flutetalk, a Beadwork and a stack of New Yorkers are going to Houghton Lake with me this weekend!)
  13. Ann Arbor Snooze, Tuesday edition
  14. small spiral notebook w/ a whole bunch of to-do lists that prob'ly never got done! plus some lost grocery lists
  15. staplermanila envelope
  16. cafeteria tray
  17. 3 quarters
  18. receipt from Kayu
  19. scotch tape
  20. tampon (unopened but probably not advisable to use!)
  21. most of a ream of Pulsar Pink computer paper
  22. band-aid wrapper
  23. stock dividend check stub
  24. Suntrust Securities statement or prospectus or whatever (unopened)
  25. chip clip
  26. 3 pens
  27. pen top
  28. 2 paper clips
  29. The Catcher in the Rye (summer reading pile? will I have any time to read this summer?)
  30. mouse (computer, not scurry)
  31. 3 trivets
  32. the bag I'm currently using for a purse
  33. 2 crystal candle holders
  34. an empty vase
  35. photos of Caroline & Goose from the Peter Pan auditions in 1998
  36. Girl Scout "Fight Hunger where we live!" flyer
  37. DVD's: A Tale of Two Cities (Saturday night), Great Expectations (Saturday afternoon) & Connecticut Yankee (Amanda's)
  38. advertising postcards enclosed in plastic that I have to remove before recycling (!) and addressed to William who gets mad when someone opens his junk mail but won't open it HIMSELF either
  39. those "cheap" Steiner binoculars
  40. the chicken tray
  41. YAG check deposit stamp
  42. Detroit Home magazine invoice (not something we subscribe to)
  43. CD with Jungle Book t-shirt art
  44. empty plastic case of some sort
  45. exam week kit order form from K College
  46. junk mail from college painters (we already have a college painter -- wanna hire her?)
  47. schedule from The Ark
  48. ad from Keller Williams (NO, we aren't selling this rat hole!)
  49. newsletter from Alberta House
  50. Jungle Book poster
  51. Jungle Book script
  52. some sort of weird looking screw
  53. some sort of weird looking blue plastic thingie
  54. bird skull?
  55. pink tums pill
  56. some sort of drill bit or something
  57. bullet thingies?
  58. half a pencil
  59. blue glass candle holder
  60. partial book of checks
  61. printer, unopened
  62. bag of dead batteries
  63. mouse candle holder

So, is that enough? Saved: magazines, office supplies, candle holders & other tangible stuff, etc. Pitched: catalogs and most other mail and unnecessary papers.