Spring is sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is.

List Friday, courtesy of Pomegranates and Paper

This week's list: Personal Fruition through Binging and Purging

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Things to Be Rid Of

I have actually been really good about purging unwanted and unneeded crap around here lately. Nonetheless –

1. Some toys. No child needs that many toys. And they all lie around the floor at the same time and get stepped on and make me nuts.
   
2. The guilt I carry around for working and wanting time away from my little guys
   
3. The one nursing bra that drives me bats and doesn’t fit right but cost a lot of money
   
4. The pair of pants I bought in a fit of fat that are waaaaaayyyy too big for me, even just to lounge around the house in. I must ignore the fact that they are practically brand new and have been only worn twice.
   
5. The broken laundry baskets - what can I say, I am a child of Depression-era parents. You NEVER throw anything away. You make do.
   
6. The excess weight clinging to my hips, butt, and thighs
   
7. This freaking, neverending, winter-long sinus infection
   
8. The peppermint mochas. As soon as it’s warm enough, I’ll start drinking iced lattes and frappucinos. I WANT spring.
   
9. All the drab colored shirts I own. I went thru a phase where I only bought brown, black, grey, or navy. I don’t want to be Doris Day but I could use some pinks, pale greens, maybe even a pale blue? I mean, let’s not go nuts, but still…many people lately have told me how nice I look in pink….growl…but they’re RIGHT.
   
10. The stupid miserable cat that I HATE. Yeah, I know I won’t but oh how I long to!
    
11. The stupid and ugly slipcover on the couch; but at least it covers the stained, worn, migraine-inducing plaid
    
12. This unfortunate tendency to pee just a tiny lttle bit every time I sneeze really hard or cough really hard. I Kegeled, I did, neverendingly, but it didn't do diddly.
    

Things to Obtain

1. An eyelash curler, preferably that crazy brand that sounds like Shu Oumori that both Badger and my friend L swear by
   
2. A pair of jeans that fit, look good, and are comfy – yeah, good luck with that. The new jeans I just bought last week? Look all right but are not that comfy. See number 5.
   
3. A bus pass
   
4. Books – of course
   
5. More Green and Black’s milk chocolate almond bars, because I ate the last of my stash last night
   
6. A new TV cabinet, sort of like an armoire type so it looks nicer and so I can stop worrying about this IKEA piece of crap collapsing on top of my children.
   
7. A dining room hutch/china cabinet so my pantry can be fully the pantry and not also platter and plate storage.
   
8. A sporty spring coat, preferably pink, even though I can’t really see myself wearing pink. Camel might do.
   
9. A cute spring purse
   
10. Some flippy, sporty, swishy new spring skirts – or if I lose that weight I can just live in my jean skirt and that would be fine too.
    
11. A haircut and color, and some professional eyebrow shaping
    
12. Time to run a few times a week so I can train for this 10K I want to do in the fall and thereby lose lots of weight in the bargain. I am so much happier when I am running regularly.
    
13. A nice new set of some-pale/neutral-colored sheets, at least 300-thread-count
    
14. A new bottle of Bath and Body Works lemon verbena perfume, and maybe some classic Liz Claiborne. I like to have two or three to switch around through. Because my French drugstore stuff (Les Senteurs orange-cinnamon, in that gorgeous blue bottle) has to last till I can get to Paris again.
    
15. Oh, what the hell - a trip to Paris.