This was one of those “I need to go to bed but haven’t taken a photo” shots, but it was actually on my mental list of things to shoot anyway, since this little area says a lot. :) Working sort of left to right, we have …
- Coaster stone (best type of coaster ever) for the occasional glass of water, but it doesn’t get used much anymore, since I sleep with a TMJ splint, and I can’t imagine that drinking from a glass with it in while half asleep would go well. LOL
- Controller for my side of our Sleep Number bed. I’m a “55”. :)
- Clock radio used for the heavy duty wake-up on the beeping alarm setting. It starts going off at 5:18 AM on school days. I usually hit that snooze button on top at least twice without even being conscious of it.
- Stack of three books under the clock radio – “Understanding Exposure” by Bryan Peterson, “A Designer’s Eye for Scrapbooking” by Ali Edwards, and “Designing with Photos” by Allison Tyler Jones and Donna Smylie. I’ve had them for ages, but have only read parts of each of them.
- The glowing orb is my “sunrise” alarm clock. When it works (it’s getting really old, so it sometimes decides it doesn’t feel like waking up), the light comes on gradually over a period of 30 minutes, which makes it much easier to get out of bed on those pre-dawn early mornings. I don’t let it get to full brightness though, since that’s a lot right in my face. It also serves as my reading light at night.
- Red square candle in “Pomegranate Passion” scent. I’m not generally one for scented stuff, since it just makes me feel sneezy, but this one smells awesome. It was a shower gift from a mommy board friend back when I was pregnant with Kaylee. It’s never been lit. I just don’t find candlelight relaxing; I’m too paranoid about the house burning down. LOL
- Three theater masks that I picked up while I was working on contract in the Ericsson office in Montreal in 1993. A co-worker and I went to see a performance of “Carmen”, and I found the masks in the gift shop afterwards and fell instantly in love with them. Normally, at least one of them is on the mantle in the family room, but they didn’t make it back out there after Christmas.
- Pair of funky candles that were a wedding gift from my cousin. Also never been lit.
- Baby monitor for Kaylee’s room. The receiver faces the wall because the reception gets all static-y if I turn it around. We don’t really NEED the monitor for Kaylee anymore, but I can hear the white noise from her air purifier coming over it, and I’m so used to it, that I can’t sleep without it. So really it’s more for me than her now. LOL
- The little plastic box next to the pencil is an eyeglass repair kit. The world’s tiniest screw, which holds the frame together around the left lens of my glasses, has started spontaneously loosening up and falling out. After three times of having to hunt down that microscopic sucker while half-blind, I’ve taken to preventative maintenance. I now check it every night and end up tightening it about twice a week. I guess I need to take the glasses to a shop and see if there’s anything that can be done. My previous frames had the exact same design, and I never had this problem. :-b
- The paper under the boxes is the manual for the thermostat in our bedroom. We replaced it a few years ago when the furnace went out, hoping that was the problem. (It wasn’t.) It’s way less intuitive than our other thermostat, and I still can’t remember how to operate it without the manual.
- The metal box contains a weird assortment of odds and ends… old ViewMaster slides, a small black button, a Snow White “brooch” from an old Halloween costume of Kaylee’s, yellow yarn “bangs” that came off a very old doll of mine, a broken “Bop It” game pen. The six of spades is from a 2006 magic convention that Mark was the talent coordinator for. I got pulled on stage with Mike Caveney in front of 800 people for a magic trick involving the card, a bow and arrow, and a blindfold. Not sure which was scarier – the arrow or being on stage in front of all those people. LOL
- Lots of dust on everything that is proof I didn’t take time to stage anything for this photo. LOL
See… I told you it had a lot to say. ;)
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