I’ll just put it out there .. I hate moving. I like looking at other houses that are staged to sell, and imagining what it would be like to live there. I like watching DIY experts slap $40 worth of paint onto walls, transform a wood pallet into a piece of luxurious furniture, and change a blah room into a stunning piece of art. In the past, I myself have spent major dollars and worked insanely long hours, hoping to make a sow’s ear into a silk purse. DIY porn. It’s a thing.
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Roxanne Tellier – Move It On Over
Posted in Books, Family, Food, life, Opinion, Review with tags DBAWIS, DIY Porn, emotional baggage, George Carlin, landlords, Little Free Libraries, Move, moving, real estate, rent, rental market, segarini, stuff, Tellier, tenants, trash, treasure on October 3, 2021 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Books, Music and Stuff!
Posted in Opinion with tags 1984., agoraphobic, Aldous Huxley, Bernie Taupin, bibliomaniac, Bob Segarini, book monster, Books, Brave New World, Craigslist, David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, e-books, Elton John, entertainment, freecycle, George Carlin, George Orwell, hoarder, internet, J.R.R. Tolkien, Leonard Cohen, library, Lolita, music, musician, Nabokov, organized, pack rats, Pagliacci, poet, Rammstein, Ray Bradbury, Roxanne Tellier, Smoky Robinson, Sophie’s Choice, Stephen King, Sting, stuff, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Ramones, The Smashing Pumpkins and deadmau5 have all written about soma, The Strokes, Toronto on February 1, 2015 by segarini“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Since I’m effectively agoraphobic during winter, it seems like a good time to turn my attention to this mess around me that I’ve accumulated, and scan through the wee bits of paper on which I’ve written a germ of an idea, usually accompanied by an *asterisk* and several exclamation points!!! I just have to haul them out from under the weight of the newspaper clippings, flyers, magazines, library books and paper backs they’ve landed under, over and in between.