Finding Crumbs While Cleaning!

It's common to find crumbs while cleaning (don't you just love alliteration)! Inkblot had family coming into town today (well, technically yesterday). The house, as always, is a complete disaster with very little hope of making it look anything less than disastrous without at least two weeks worth of work. Inkblot and her parents had 2 days (they started on Wednesday) minus her dad going to work and her mom helping out her brother and his wife (his wife had to go to the hospital for something with her pregnancy and stay the night - she's fine now, don't worry). Wow, that sounded way more complicated than it is. Anyway, Inkblot spent the whole day cleaning today. And do you know what Inkblot found? So many crumbs, she almost died! Not only were there actual crumbs (in the kitchen and in her brother's old room), but there were Cookie Crumbs coming out of the woodwork! It was kind of like in The 4400, how there weren't any returnees but then all of a sudden (in a flash of blinding light!) there were 4400 returnees. Inkblot must say she was quite surprised to be finding so much. Her brother's room was filled with little trinkets. The treasures she found! There was a tiny ceramic bird (about the height of a 10 year-old's thumb) and a small antique birdcage. She found old playing cards to use in her artwork, a tiny pendant shaped like a gun, and some brand new paintbrushes. Yum, those cookie crumbs are really good! She found a new box to store her buttons in, and these fantastic painted masks in all sorts of colors. There were, of course, tons of gross things like unwashed dishes and half-empty cans of coke, pieces of shed snake's skin and 2 skulls of dead animals, tons of dust, and lots of smelly socks and sweaty gym clothes, but Inkblot was finding so many amazing things that she didn't really mind all the gross stuff (well expect the animal parts!). Inkblot was psyched to discover that she was allowed to raid the remainder of her brother's CD collection, especially since he has moved into a new phase of hip-hop and rap music instead of his normal rock and punk stuff. She gets to take a bunch of awesome CDs like all the old Greenday albums (Dookie and Shenanigans and the like), a couple Smashing Pumpkins (she believes she saw Adore and is hoping for Siamese Dream and Gish as well), and maybe some Lit (Inkblot lost her copy of their first album!). And she is apparently welcome to paw through his books as well, though she doubts there is much in there expect old Redwall books and some Goosebumps.
Inkblot thinks she has discovered a new source of crumbs and hopes to find a lot more to share with you in the next few weeks as her family finishes cleaning her brother's room. Much love,
Inkblot