AHHH, that feels better.

Do you ever feel like throwing away everything in your house and starting over? Well, that is the point at which I had gotten yesterday. I was overwhelmed with all the STUFF cluttering my closets and living space. So yesterday, I spent the day cleaning out my house, and I have to say, I did a pretty darn thorough job. I took out 6 bags of garbage (4 of which came from Ian's room!) and I have a load of stuff for the thrift store that will fill my entire car. Why do we collect so much stuff??

15 Signs You Might Be A Bookaholic.

I found this on another website, and thought it was funny. I listed my favorites, and the ones that I may or may not be guilty of...

• You're packing for a romantic weekend away with significant other and you give more thought to which books to take than to which nightgown is your sexiest.

• Before you buy a purse you make sure a paperback will fit inside.

• Your significant other mutters about life in prison not being much of a deterrent to you since you'd be quite content sitting in your cell reading all day.

• You call in sick so you can finish reading a book.

• When you move you have more boxes labeled "books" than anything else.

• You have to constantly invest in new bookshelves.

• Your kids holler from the other room with something they consider a dire emergency, and you say, "Wait until I finish this page!"

• You have no idea what's on television anymore (except for Psych) because the boob tube has become just another piece of furniture.

• You tend to buy frozen, microwavable foods that practically cook themselves so that you don't lose any precious reading time for such an unimportant thing as feeding your family.

• You valiantly try to teach your kids "independence," which means you want them to do more household chores (so you can have more reading time).

• It's 2am and you think "just another chapter" and do the same thing at 3am when you know you have to get up in 4 hours and work.

• You try reading and walking at the same time. (Works on a treadmill!!)

• You start fabricating excuses as to why you can't go out with your friends when you're in the middle of a great book.

• You start thinking of the characters as real people.

• Your eyesight goes from 20-20 to legally blind because of reading in poor light.