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770 kg de Teck Brésilien (Cumaru) qui n’attendent plus qu’à être installés…
Noel 2010
Dans quelques heures, deballage…
Dindage 2010 (un jour en avance)
Au menu:
- Dinde (de 5 kg) farcie avec boeuf hache, chair a saucisse, persil et oignon
- “Gravy” maison
- Sauce aux canneberges maison
- Puree de pommes de terre a l’huile d’olive maison
- Carottes
- Et Opera en dessert (pas maison celui-la)
Nous sommes pleins.
Goodbye Windows Live Spaces, hello WordPress
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that they were discontinuing the Windows Live Spaces blogging service. Microsoft partnered with WordPress to provide a new home to Spaces blogs. So there it is, we are now hosted on WordPress, which is a great service. The transition was extremely easy and all of our blog was successfully transferred in just a few minutes.
Hoarders
I know someone in Paris who collects printed matter. For him, anything with written information—books, leaflets, real-estate brochures—is worth holding onto. And as a result, his place is packed with telephone directories from around the globe, tax guides for countries he’s probably never visited, rare editions of holy scriptures written in dead languages.
I guess he considers himself well informed and resourceful—an information junkie. But a lot of people would consider him a hoarder. Books and magazines would make it home with him but nothing would ever be thrown out. I’ve spotted him in restaurants—while we were waiting to be seated—picking up tourist guides, classifieds and other print souvenirs to take with him.
Not only is it odd that he thought the dated material might ever come in handy—especially the stuff that didn’t even get read when it was current—but what were the odds that he’d find that specific piece of trivia among the hundreds of stacked boxes and sky-high piles of magazines?
One of the episodes of the AMC show, Hoarders, the other night, featured a guest who reminded of my friend in Paris. This man had a garage full of boxes, and every horizontal surface in his home was used to store various “collections.” Both men definitely fit my definition of a hoarder—someone who holds on to way too many things they don’t need, and who keeps acquiring things they can’t comfortably accommodate.
The more I watch Hoarders, however, the more the term eludes me. The hoarding featured on the show seems to go way beyond the need to acquire and an inability to throw things away. A lot of the so-called hoarders on the show were not like the family friend in Paris who collects newspapers and leaflets. Their hoarding often entailed a strong aversion to cleaning and organizing and often serious emotional issues. Some of them just seemed like people who grew up in messy homes and never acquired proper housekeeping skills.
At some point, I assume, the overcrowding becomes so unbearable and intrusive that you don’t know how to make sense of it all and where to start organizing. So it’s just easier to ignore it. And before you know it, you own so much stuff that your sinks and washers become inaccessible and you simply cannot clean up after yourself.
Happy Birthday, Zachary!
Pump it Up – Kirkland, Wa.
Things we love about September
September 2010, that is.
V, A, A, T and D family blog 