Last year, I did something that

I

used to think

I would

never

do:
I organised my CDs and DVDs...

Shocking. I know.
 

Some of you might ask,

"But how else would one organise their CDs???

"  to which I can only reply:

"Well, EMOTIONALLY, of course. Dummy!"

Trouble is, I couldn't find some things anymore, and it's not that I had/have that large of a collection to begin with. In fact, I wouldn't even go so far as to call it a "collection", because that makes it sound so pompous.
 

I just have some records. That's all.
 
 

 
Anyway, none of this had ever been a problem in the past, but now my brain has reached that stage, where I literally cannot remember what I did five minutes ago, let alone where I put things.

Especially

new(ly purchased) things that don't "have their place" yet. Plus, I always had that problem that I might stand

right in front

of a thing, but could not "see" it...

 
So, I am putting

labels

on (almost) everything now. That way I don't have to remember things, I just have to

read

what it says on the box. Besides, I like labels ... and boxes, too.  ;)

This whole thing got started, when I "accidentally" purchased an album on CD that I already had ... one that I

KNEW

I owned. But I just couldn't find it anymore, and then I doubted myself, thinking that

maaaaaybe

I had only

imagined

owning it. So I went and ordered a used copy online...

 
...and

the second

I had done that, I found the album in question on my CD-shelf. It was

right there

where I thought it should have been. It was literally right in front of my nose, but I just didn't see it.

 
Only one week or so later, the exact same thing happened with a DVD (well, a Blu-ray, to be precise). Luckily, both were cheap, second-hand copies. But still...

...and then it took me

a whole year

to actually get started re-organising.
 
Typical.

In my defense, the mere thought of having to put CDs next to each other that "don't match" ... urrrgh, it REALLY made me

ick

. That's why it took me a whole year to get used to the idea. -- But now that it's a done thing, it find that it makes everything so much easier.

 
I did, however, keep all the soundtrack CDs separate from "the other" albums. Oh, and all the medieval music is locked away in a box. I mean, there are limits. Obviously...

I still haven't re-organised my vinyl-records, but I will do that next.
Definitely. At some point.

I decided that this could

NEVER

happen again!

(Well, I wrote this blog entry. That counts as a start.)

June 16

th

, 2026

Well, motivated by yesterday's blog-entry

(and the fact that my asshole has been bleeding all day, and I couldn't do much of anything else)

, I actually

did

re-organise my records alphabetically today. Yay, achievement.
 
What I don't understand, though, is ...

HOW

is it possible

that I have even

LESS

space now

than I did before??? -- The exact same thing had happen, when I re-organised my CDs and DVDs. I don't understand this. At all. It's a complete mystery to me.

Also, sorting things

a

lphabetically only goes so far, when you're in the habit of gradually forgetting things. For example, if I were to file this

NIGHTMARES IN WAX

record under "

N

", then I would completely

forget

that I even own it...

These three albums here have a similar problem (or rather

I

do)...

...in fact, I had

already

forgotten that I had it (I thought I only had it as a 7", which I don't) and was rather surprised when I saw it mixed in with my

DEAD OR ALIVE

records. -- So, yeah ...

that's where it has to

stay

!

I really do

NOT

want to file them alphabetically. They

have

to stay in the

CHRISTIAN DEATH

section, and I don't care, if this doesn't make any sense. There are limits. -- It's bad enough that I had to move the first

MEPHISTO WALZ

album all the way to "M".

Urrrrgh.