Sunday afternoon I decided that Alex’s closet was cluttered enough to be deemed Officially Hazardous, so yesterday I spent most of the morning sorting through old books, old clothes, old toys and old shoes.
And in case you’re wondering if I took a picture of the final product, well, OF COURSE I DID.
Now granted, you can only see one side of closet in the picture, but the other side of the closet is cleaned out, too. And besides, do you notice THAT WHOLE BIG SPACE WITH NOTHING ON IT?
I’m telling you: that whole big space with nothing on it is one of the crowning achievements of my life.
Or at least of my life in, you know, May.
And ever since I finished working in that closet, I have been on what my mama would call a RIP IT. I’ve stripped beds, mopped floors, cleaned bathrooms, washed and put away about eight loads of laundry, and I’m about to tackle my baseboards as soon as I post this because I believe it’s been well-established that I am an all-or-nothing girl, so as far as I’m concerned I can either clean my house until it shines or sit on the couch, eat Cheetos and watch HGTV.
And today I choose to clean.
But tomorrow there’s an excellent chance that the Cheetos will win.
(Now please hold for one second while I mop.)
(I’m not even kidding.)
(I’m making you sort of tired, aren’t I?)
(IMAGINE WHAT A DELIGHT IT IS TO LIVE WITH ME!)
(Okay. I’m back now.)
Anyway!
At some point in my massive housecleaning extravaganza, I decided to tackle the bar in our living room, and I kept finding CDs tucked away in drawers. And after I happened upon about the ninth CD, I was all, Why do I have all these CDs taking up valuable storage space? Couldn’t I be using this space much more effectively? Like to store Windex? Or Pledge? Or Clorox? Or some other cleaning product that would help me to maintain the completely unattainable level of clean that I am striving for over the next two days before I get back on the couch and eat Cheetos again?
Oh, make no mistake, people: I am a CARNIVAL of insanity.
So!
I now have this stack-o-CDs that I don’t really need anymore because they’re either a preview copies someone sent me or they’re left over from a giveaway or they’re already on my iTunes or someone is sneaking into my house at night and leaving stray copies of contemporary Christian music in random drawers behind the bar in my living room.
Regardless!
I’d love to send one of you the whole stack-o-CDs. There are probably eleven or twelve CDs in the stack right now (Third Day, Leeland, Casting Crowns, Matt Redman, etc. and so on and so forth), but that number could increase as I clean out additional drawers in additional areas of the house where I’m doing some additional cleaning.
CAN ANYONE TELL THAT I’M HOME ALONE TODAY?
So if you’d like to win, just leave me a comment and tell me so. I’ll close the comments sometime tomorrow morning and then select a winner using random.org.
Please know that my crazy and I thank you in advance for your participation.
And have a great day, y’all.
This giveaway is now closed.
I would love to win this for my boy. He is 25 and in Oct. was infected with viral meningitis. He went into kidney failure and almost died. After 32 days in ICU and then a couple more in the regular room, he he was able to go to a rehab hospital. He spent 5 weeks there and has been doing out patient therapy since.
Does my story sound sad enough? Actually, it is a true story and we are so happy to have him at home with us as he continues to get better.
Music is great therapy for him and I hope I win.
Have been reading along with your blog but have commented before. What better time to post a first comment than a chance to win your fabulous stack-o-cd’s.
Your post was too funny and I am the same way- I either clean and scrub it all in about two days or I don’t do any of it. I feel myself gearing up to a massive cleaning and clearing frenzy.
Cara
New music for summer. Yeah.
I’d like to win! I can always use more CDs cluttering up my shelves!
I have to say, Boomama, that I (sadly…) have therapeutic sessions when I clean my house. I don’t understand it. I just…well, I clean. It’s a talent, used to be a hobby….my sessions have slacked off over the past years with a toddler added to the family….among other life things….sooooo…would I realllly want or need MORE cds in my drawers here at home? Probably not! But should I be the random winner chosen…I will make sure those cds find a proper owner.
OK, I would love to win these CD’s because I have a houseful of teenagers and young-twenties who listen to music on four stereos, an ipod and two computers AT THE SAME TIME and, after all, we NEED more music around here. Yes, it’s a need.
My daughter is always looking for great CD’s and I am too cheap to keep buying them. She and I would love to adopt yours!!!!
Ohh I soooo need me some Boo Mama Music selections!!! I sure hope the ole random .org is feeling my ## I am local also!! Thanks for the give away my southern sister!!
I am a music teacher and am always looking for great stuff. Thanks for the funny post!
Oooohhhhhh! I would love to win! My cd collection is in dire need of updating. I’d never even heard of Leeland until a few Sundays ago… they are doing a concert at our church in July and I heard my first song of theirs last weekend. And I fell instantly in love with their music. If I don’t win your cd giveaway (sniff, sniff) then I’ll be heading out to buy a cd of theirs on my own… and I’d really rather save the gas money thank you very much. lol! Thanks for the chance to win.
Me! Me! My 8-week-old daughter and I love to listen to music during the day!
I would love to win!
Cool! Congrats on the spring cleaning! Sign me up :)
I would love some new CD’s. Wow, Sophie you have inspired me to clean, now IF I could get all of my closets to look like yours…I am busy cleaning out my husband’s office to move it home. I will be a shredding fool when I get to bring the shredder home…I love words too much and have too many papers saved that don’t need to be saved. Sure hope the number thing picks me…Thanks for the great laughs…I bet you are funny without trying to be funny. You add to my day. Blessings…
I am so in awe of your cleaning bonanza! I set out to that yesterday… However, I managed to wash a load and a half of clothes a load of dishes and get dinner on the table at a reasonable hour. WHOO HOO! And I have about 50 graduation invitations to get in the mail as well! So… please send me your refreshing stack of CDs… I believe mine are all in the garage in a box or… they have been mysteriously eaten by that abominable CD Monster… Because I am sure we have one. (Or, maybe, just maybe I left them in the rental car before we moved… which is my worst nightmare! I had nearly 100 worship cds that just took me away… better than Calgon, which I am sure you will need after your cleaning frenzy! Blessings.
Add my name to the list! I would love to win those CDs. Hope you have fun scrubbing those baseboards!
I wish I had big closets to clean out!!!….you go girl!
I ALWAYS love getting new music! :)
Would love, love, love to win:-)
You’ve inspired me, though, so now I’m off to find the windex.
Heck Yea! Who doesn’t want new music???
I’m in! And I’m sending over my tiny handful of readers to enter, too! :-)
I want some CD’s!!! : ) Especially ones that have spent time in BooMama’s house…
And I’ll have you know that I was home all day yesterday alone and I cleaned too!!! I wouldn’t even bother mentioning that except that it was honestly, truly a miracle all that Jesus and I got done together.
And just because I know you’ll read this before getting caught up on your email again… our church did read the thing I asked you about at our brunch and it was delightful and divine how it all fit together. Thanks for writing back to me!!! : )
I would love some new music!
I’d love new music. How great to benefit from someone else’s “cleaning bug” =). Isn’t it amazing the things you never even knew you had?
Boomama….you crack me up daily. Thanks for that, and thanks for the inspiration…I plan on starting a little cleaning session of my own…maybe. Anyway, would love the CD’s…..
personally, i like crazy! Send those CDs this direction.
I’d like to win, Please. I’d like to win.
Free stuff is my favorite kind…and I’m due for some new music. Count me in!
Boo..Nana here. Please count me in for the contest. Your closet looks so nice and neat. How many Diet Cokes did you have today? Just asking. I need to get some of your energy. Love ya
I had a cleaning day like that not too long ago – except every draw I opened and every nook and cranny was filled with pens. Anywhere and everywhere. Drove me crazy until I got them all sorted by ink color in ziploc bags and stored in one large draw. Whew. I could use some new music to take my mind off of all the useless writing instruments in my house!
that should be drawER, not draw. And i did it wrong twice. Yikes.
Count me in, girlfriend!
You are not crazy!! I am so the same way, it’s either all or nothing! Right now I’m in the nothing phase, but that too will pass! I would love a few new CD’s, thanks for sharing!
Would love me some music! And I’ve been doing the SAME thing, but I think it’s called “nesting” because my due date is TOMORROW!!!!!
Woo Hoo! Count me in!
Count me in. I could use some new to me tunes.
Hey, I would so love to win this!
Don’t we all need new music now and then? :-)
Are you ever overwhelmed at the number of comments made when you have a give away? I’m sure you must be, but here I am again anyway hoping to win.
Some new music sound great!!
I’m so glad we can all benefit from your insanity!!
I love new music! Also, when you are done and are still feeling a little crazy, feel free to come do my house :)
I loved the last CD you sent me, so it pretty much goes without saying I’d love it if you sent me 11 or 12. :0 )
Boo-
I’m wondering if you’re expecting and maybe due in a day or two? That kind of “nesting” usually happens around then!
Just kidding– it is truly scary how much alike we are in this regard- my only caveat is that I married a total pack rat, and am not allowed to throw things out without clearing them through him first. I know it sounds crazy, but it really does keep our marriage happy. He obtains it, I organize and store it. Sigh…Rubbermaid totes can be your best friend, I tell ya!
I have just recently re-entered the Christian music scene and would love a free CD> Thanks for cleaning!
On another note, have you ever heard of Bid Daddy Weave? They are my current new favorite- I LOVE< LOVE< LOVE them. Of course, you’ve probably already got all their music on your ipod– oh to be so with it!
Thanks for the laughs.
Count me in, too!
Well, I usually don’t buy CD’s because I wait on my husband to buy them for me, but It has been a really long time since I have had any new ones, so Let’s see if I can win this one. I have listened to the same ones for a long time, so that many should last for a year or two!! What a great give away, and I’m very impressed with the cleaning and all, I need to follow your example!
We are moving in 37 days and I barked at my husband today because he brought home 2 coffee table books for the new house. I told him I didn’t want to pack up 2 MORE BOOKS! Yet — I find myself really excited about the possibility of winning a stack of CDs. Go figure! Thanks for brightening a stressful time in my life.
Pick me, pick me!
Pleeeaassseee Random Number Generator, I will be your best friend forever…..
Pick me, pick me! (Please!)
Please add me to the drawing. The CD’s would make great give-aways at youth camp!
I would love to have some new CDs. Count me in!
I am glad to see that someone else cleans like I do, in infrequent, but frenetic bouts!
Thanks,
Tammy
Win me some CD’s Boo!
I would love to have the cds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would love some new tunes to add to my iPod. Plus, I’d even share them with others!
How fun and how generous of you! Thanks. BTW, if you ever feel like cleaning again, feel free to come on over to my place!
There must be something in the air. I spent my whole Memorial Day scrubbing, yes I said scrubbing, my tile floors on my hands and knees thank you very much. I cleaned my bathrooms, organized the paperwork on my desk and to add to the craziness of it – enjoyed it!! I listened to my ipod and praised God while doing it!!
Me! Me!! ME!!!!
I never win these thingies, but whe the prize is this good, I will never stop trying!!!!!!
Oh, did I mention …
… MMMMMMEEEEEE!!!!!!
thanks
What a Wonderful Giveaway! Jason and I could both love such a grand prize!
Whew…girl, I’ve been on the cleaning spree over here too…I feel your pain for the crazy!
Thanks again!
Holly
Oh, yes. Please.
You go girl! All your cleaning is awesome! I would love to take some CDs off your hands. I haven’t bought any new music for way too long and an update to my collection would be delightful!
Oh, my CCM collection could definitely use a Boo-ster shot.
OOOOOOO!!! I have to admit, I’m a late-bloomer in the “contemporary” Christian music scene and I’ve been trying to get familiar with it little by little, especially as the new church we are going to sings more of this music! PICK ME! :-) And way to go on your organizing!!!
I’d like to win! Because, you know, I am the heathen that wrote to you a few weeks ago :)
My baby girl (5)would LOVE LOVE LOVE her some free CD’s. She is just getting into Christian music (Thank God) and we play it loud and proud, let me tell you!!
Pick me!! Pick me! We would play them ALL THE TIME (one song at a time over and over and over and over). . . Those CD’s would last us a life time. . . Thanks BooMama you are the bomb!!
I would LOVE to win! :)
Excellent idea! I once gave away bunches of clothes like this, but it got *really* expensive. You are much more clever than I (not that it’s saying much…)
Sure, enter me in…and then, do you wanna come over to my house and clean?
I just rolled at the bar post! The “Baptist” comments were hysterical!
I wish your enthusiasm would rub off on me just a teeny bit. I need to get going!
Comment. Unless of course I have to leave two comments. In that case: comment. :)
:) Thanks!
My husband would love this he is in a contemporary christian band at church and they are always looking for new music for our youth. Thanks!
I would love to win some Boo Mama Music!
Bring on the CD’s. Who couldn’t use more music? :)
Pick me, please! Pick me, please! And by the way, I just told my kids that our goal this summer was to bring some sense of order to all of our closets. It’s a big goal, but somebody’s got to do it, right?
Music is not in our budget unless you count the radio. (which I do). I hope I win! Fun idea to get rid of the stuff that multiplies while we sleep.
I sure could use some new tunes. Bless my musical socks off.
I am about all-or-nothing myself. Currently, I am about nothing in the form of chocolate and the Karate Kid II.
That is, until i get busy downloading and organizing my music to prepare for the latest collection…
You rock:)
We love, love, love music at our house! (I love when someone else is doing my share of the cleaning in the world too!)
Thanks!
Good lord, the readers come out of the woodwork when you have a giveaway! Smart readers…
I’m in too! You have some good musical taste, here’s hoping I get your lovely leftovers.
You can pass that new music on this way… I might listen to it while I’m cleaning my house!
Send some of that crazy my way! : ) Maybe that stack-o-music will help.
I’ll never turn down good music! Count me in!
Count me it BooMama! I need some tunes around here.
I am always up for free music!
I would love to win the mix-o-lot of music.
Whoo hoo! What a good idea.
You go, girl, with that cleaning thing. I might even get inspired enough to tackle my house in the morning. Maybe.
I hope you and your crazy pick me!
I’ve just discovered your blog and enjoy reading it each day. It’s always a good place to come find something to laugh about!
I’d love to win the music!
Wow, what an awesome idea! Enter me please!
While I luv me sum 3rd Day and Crowns (both were in Paul’s collection I inherited) I’m a bit more concerned with your choice of cleaning products, Sista. GO GREEN now – get you some vinegar 2 replace that Windex and use some 7th Generation products for the other stuff. I realize you’re probably falling off said barstool since this is ME talk’n but, we all can do our part for the lil Boos of the world ~ PEACE on you :)
Pick me please! Listening to some good worshipful music is what gets my cranky, sleep-deprived self through the long mornings with my 3 kiddos under 4! There are so many wonderful uplifting songs out there…I’d love to hear some new ones!
oh wow, i would love to win these! i’m typing this one-handed as i hold my sleeping 2 month old in the other!!!
Great idea, I would love to win! What a great way to share worship. :)
Oh Boomama, I would luuurrrve me some of your additional-yet-just-as-loved CD’s. I’m all stuffed up with a head cold and I need some inspiration to get out of bed….
You have led me to some great music! I would love to own that stack o’ CDs!!
Thanks, BooMama–
Carrie
I would love some new CDs! Thanks for sharing!
i wish i could write a sad story about being a poor missionary who doesn’t have access to christian music, but instead i’ll just wait to see if i’m the lucky one. :)
(i am a missionary, but hopefully not that pathetic…)
How fun! I’d love to win!
I don’t have any of the ones you mentioned. I would love to win. Thanks for the opportunity.
I’d love some new music to listen to. Bought the Monk & Neagle CD because of your recommendation and love it! So I already know you have great taste in music. :-)
I would be glad to take your clutter, I mean CD’s, off your hands. Count me in!