Midnight Goddess

A packrat I’m not

I don’t like to keep things if I don’t have to. I have a few tote boxes with memories of all kinds in them, Office Depot boxes with stuff in them… If I had to pack all the boxes into closets, they would fit in one small two door closet. I would probably still have room in there too. I have a very small wardrobe of old clothes that I wear. Whenever I do my weekly house cleaning, I make sure to get rid of unneeded trash, paper (nothing of importance such as documents), old and/or cheap toys that the kids don’t play (or that I feel is potentially dangerous such as magnets that Jasmine might swallow), old food from the fridge and pantry, and whatever else I don’t need.

Today, I had spent several hours downloading, renaming and organizing about 8 GBs worth of Nintendo DS games that I found on the net. I did that because Mom had gotten Memphis one of the coolest gifts he’s ever gotten: an R4. The R4 allows a gamer to keep a good amount of DS games on one itty bitty card the size of my thumbnail. At last count, Memphis now has a total of over 200 DS games, up from the maybe 10 he had originally. He loves the R4. He’s been playing the DS all day literally. I got a massive headache doing all that for him but it’s so worth it. I was only able to fit about 30 or so games on the card but I saved all 200+ games in a DS folder on my external HD.

I decided to backup all my stuff on my Seagate 150 GB HD. It had about 35+ GBs left of space. I still haven’t touched my 500 GB external HD. It originally came with my computer but suffered a major hardware failure and had to be taken out. I currently have a 750 GB HD in my tower.

After I backed up my stuff (I try to do weekly backups because of my long term experience of losing important data for various reasons), I deleted stuff on the Seagate. It now has almost 60 GBs of space available. I then went ahead and delete a bunch of stuff that I didn’t need from my computer. Amazingly enough I got rid of almost 26 gigs of data. I’m now back down to using 94+ gigs space. I’m absolutely thrilled about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m a geek.

Last night, we had gone to Walmart in Gilroy and bought new shirts and socks for Marty and new socks and panties for me. Marty really needed them because he jacked up the ones he had at work. So today, Marty tossed all his old socks in a bag and I tossed old shirts, panties, and socks in a white bag. It was nice to get rid of them and wear new stuff.