Just completed a massive cleaning of my room. It looks way better now. One note: taking out recycling in a cold evening in slippers is not such a hot idea. Cold feet, that's all I can say. Here are a couple of perfect-for-Trading-Spaces-except-there-are-no-lit-candles pictures of the cleaned room. I don't have the "before" pictures for comparison since, well, I wasn't expecting to clean this much at the beginning.

I did the cleaning because I can't get any work done. I was hoping that a cleaner room would yield higher productivity. We'll see... Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of work ahead, as usual.

"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words." -- 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18