tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13639729.post9164475602592038446..comments2023-10-28T01:00:37.752-07:00Comments on teXta: And There Was Dancing and MusicChrista M. Forsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970033224178963081noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13639729.post-81720264517739200262007-06-08T13:29:00.000-07:002007-06-08T13:29:00.000-07:00i can relate. i am a pack-rat. i come from a line ...i can relate. i am a pack-rat. i come from a line of pack-rats, most notably, my grandma who survived the depression. in some ways, i am proud of it, but it also produces a lot of anxiety, especially now that i don't live alone. i hate for someone else to have to deal with all my baggage...but then, maybe that is what a serious relationship is all about?<BR/><BR/>anyway, here is what i did with my cds because i could not bear to get rid of them and didn't have the time to burn them all onto my computer. i took them all out of their boxes and put them into 3 cool binders i got from the container store. i extracted the play list from the cd case and put it in the pocket with the cd. if the cover art was worth saving, i <BR/>stuck that in the binder too. i separated out the music i was attached to but embarrassed for my friends to see, and made a separate folder called "swill." the rest i organized alphabetically, leaving room for growth here and there. the three binders take up so little room and are easy to flip through. i also have a portable binder, with some current favorites in it that i keep by the cd player.<BR/><BR/>sure, purging would be cleaner, but i am just too sentimental for that.cakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18022650911172987454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13639729.post-83693675538607561542007-06-07T20:26:00.000-07:002007-06-07T20:26:00.000-07:00Ok. My when we cleaned out my grandparents' baseme...Ok. My when we cleaned out my grandparents' basement, we found the receipt for the two-cent copybook he used for notes in fourth grade. I'm serious.eflowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18356741239638640311noreply@blogger.com