things that live in my room

• me, on breaks from school.
• a ladybug on my ceiling. something about my room attracts ladybugs like nobody's business. they are always on my walls and around my windows, just chilling. I have learned to live with them. this is actually a big deal - if you have ever been around me for more than an hour at a time you will have realized that I can spot bugs like NOBODY'S business. I am so good at finding spiders. I can hear flies from across buildings. if there is an insectoid in the general vicinity of me it is a race to see which will happen first: I will spot it or it will attack me. and I always win. I also have a very rational fear of a ladybug getting stuck in my ear after this happened to my brother. but for some reason I am ok with this red blob living next to my fan, staring me down, because I guess I know that if I don't do anything to it, it will leave me alone. hopefully.
• half of my sister's clothing.
• my old computer which now runs on linux. my dad asked me if I was ok with this transition and I said sure, but I forgot that my ipod was synced up with that itunes library and I started over with the one on my laptop, so now I can't get any new music on my ipod because I don't want it to lose all of the great music it has now (which is to say all of my draco and the malfoys and like some coheed and cambria...it is a very eclectic representation of my middle/high school tastes). but it has a cool linuxy screensaver now, and I imagine I could use it if I felt like learning some new interface.
• one of those cardboard boxes from the book release of the deathly hallows that was used to hold the books and which I got fo' free from the book store just by asking for it. what a great and useful souvenir! it is just sitting on my floor and holding other old things in it.
• an office calendar from 2009. it is still on my bulletin board because I don't have anything new to put up there and also it is a little bit hard to get to now that I have a third bookshelf in my room halfway covering it. speaking of which, on this third bookshelf I have so many notebooks and papers from high school.
• candles. I have so many random little candles that I can't move myself to get rid of even though I kind of hate candles. I am so scared of matches and lighters so I hate that aspect of them, but they aren't even the kind with great smells, so what is the point? I just think they are dumb. so please don't get me any little candles because they will only collect dust. this is the number one thing that I plan on saving money on when I am older. I will not buy frivolous decorations like candles. I will only receive them as gifts which I will slightly resent.
• ten THIRTEEN pillows. does this sound excessive to you? I think I probably need a maximum of four pillows, two on each side of my bed. but I am ok with this since I have no headboard so instead I have a mound to lean back on.
• a purple beanbag. why I thought that I needed one of these is now escaping my memory, but I really wanted it at some point in my life. all the cool kids had bean bags. but now they just seem so low to the ground and not that comfortable.
• several cans of paint for the redecoration of my room. this is exciting. but I'm not sure which colors are going where so stay tuned for stories of this ongoing venture.
• my clean laundry. this is the first time in probably eight months that I have done laundry and not immediately put it away. I retrieved it from the basement on monday and thought, Marisa, let's be smart and save this for tuesday morning so that I have something to do on tuesday. this seemed like a brilliant plan, since it would have been a waste to stay up late and do it. but then I slept in because I could and then I was hanging out with the ginge all day. I got home and thought again, Marisa, I could finish folding this tonight, or I could watch glee. so I watched glee and gave Katie advice on cleaning her room. and then I ran into the same problem: I thought, I could just save this for wednesday morning! who doesn't want to have a task to do in the morning? it is the best. I would feel so productive. it was a great plan. and then, wednesday morning came and I slept in. and then I was hanging out all day. I could have done it at night but then I had to watch modern family. and then I just decided to save it for this morning. which leads us to today, right now. I thought, well Marisa, old friend, it is now well overdue for this laundry to get folded. but then I realized I hadn't updated my blog in like two whole days. and I also slept in and I still haven't even gotten dressed. so I think that I will probably have time this afternoon. we will see.
• a bat. just kidding. BUT, a bat WAS living inside my window during finals week. this was one of the first stories my dad told me when he came to pick me up. apparently it was a baby bat and, according to several members of my family, was rather cute. it slept between the outside glass and the screen. so then at night when it left my mom opened the window and closed off the outside glass panel so it couldn't get back in. I'm glad it wasn't there while I wanted to sleep, but I would still like to meet him. I try to be friends with the creatures in my room.
• EXCEPT FOR SILVERFISH. these bugs are like my nightmare. they infest my room in I would guess august every year. there will be only one at a time, but once he is killed his brother will take his place, haunting my walls. they are so fast and so creepy and I am afraid to kill them because I think they'll just run away and hide in my walls or my clothes if I try to approach them. so I have to get a parent to take care of them, but they may run away before I can locate a parent. I am not friends with any silverfish, ever. I am not looking forward to this inevitable attack. silverfish, please stay away. you are just as gross as sprickets.
• finally, the last thing I will describe since I know most people will have already lost interest in the things living in my room, is the sticker on my bathroom door. it is an AP sticker from I don't know when, and it has outlasted its usefulness now that I have all of my scores and my sister has taken all of her tests. for those of you who didn't do APs, this is the personal label that we were issued each year in a booklet that identified us so that all of our different exam scores were attributed to the person who took them. it's just like a barcode with some numbers under it. I am sitting here trying to figure out whose it is and from what year it hails...since I used up all of my stickers senior year, it could be from junior or even sophomore year but for some reason I think it's my sister's, but that would make it from last year, and I wasn't here when she took her AP exams unless it was that one time I visited home during finals. but whatever, it is completely irrelevant to life but it is just chilling on the center of the door. maybe I will ask my sister.

ps I felt the need to not capitalize my sentences here because this is a list, though I feel like a terrible person for it in retrospect. this is supposed to be a serious blog, but I feel like capitalizing things in a list takes myself too seriously. I think it is funnier this way and I hope you appreciate my distress. I have also used weird comma splices etc. and you should know that this also distresses me mildly; just keep in mind that I know my grammar rules and am purposely ignoring them. now I sound super pretentious. whatever. the internet really is killing me. I just felt like I should comment on this because in a year I will either be like blah blah blah no punctuation ever yayyyy, OR I will read this and be appalled at myself for succumbing to internet pressure.