My Messy Desk

 I feel like every week my desk has been getting messier and messier. I'm not sure if it reflects how busy I am, how much stuff I own, or my laziness, but it's kind of insane. 

Let me set the scene: 

Right now, I have a book on the far left side of my desk. It's taking up a decent amount of space. I have two water bottles right next to it, one empty and one completely full. I have a lip balm also in front of the water bottles, as well as a Nintendo eShop gift card that I have yet to redeem. On top of that gift card is a journal and a stick note pad. Next to that are some stress balls I got for Christmas. These are jumbled in a pile with a 3DS screw driver, a ziplock bag of keyboard switches, and a blue flashlight I got from an event at school. Slightly above this pile is a new shoelace for my running shoes and some Aller-Flo I got from Costco. The Aller-Flo has been sitting there for months. Next to that is two tape measures, a mini gumball machine, and a pencil lamp (that looks suggestive). In front of me is my monitor, and beside that is my Mac mini. Resting on my monitor's stand is my Elgato capture card and two orange speakers that are made of the same thing that those Chinese takeout boxes are made of. It looks like there's gonna be fried rice in one, but it's actually just a speaker. There's two papers sitting in front of my monitor, which are both comics I drew about Lucas. They're really shitty. On top of the comics are headphones, and in front of the comics is my keyboard and trackpad. To the left and right of my keyboard is a bunch of random stuff. AirPods, a Bic pen, my wallet, gum, iPod shuffles, cards, more pens, and an iPad case I haven't used in years. My desk has shelves, and there's a bunch of random things on them. On the right shelf, there's 3 Amiibos (Ryu, Ness, and Lucas), 2 cameras (an old 2008 Kodak video camera + a Canon G9X Mark 2), 3 SD Cards, a Sony recording thingy, and a keycap remover. There's a shelf above this one, which has the box for the Zelda Game and Watch. I used that Game and Watch a ton, until one day when I went into a pool on Kauai and completely submerged it without realizing it was in my pocket. That one hurt, especially since it was for like 3 seconds. Besides the G&W, there's a Luminator Yo-Yo (from Yoyotricks.com), a sharpener, the Sage Yo-Yo, a Darn Tough arm band, my Mario G&W, and neon-colored flash cards. As you can probably tell, it's messy. The left shelf has a mixture of things like cash, coins, a calculator, sticky notes, SNES controllers, and books. 

I was able to write a giant paragraph of nearly everything on my desk, which tells me that I probably need to clean it. Every time I try, though, I end up not wanting to move things/put things away in fear that I'll need it later. I know that sounds a bit hoarder-ish, but I'm not. It's the same reason I have 50 million tabs open at once (and then I complain why my computer lags... lol). I've heard that having a messy desk shows that you're like smart or productive, but I'm not entirely convinced. Even if it does, it doesn't take away from the fact that it's an eyesore and kind of disgusting. I always see those "aesthetic" desk setups or "minimalist" desk setups on the internet. They look awesome, but in practice, I feel like it would be annoying trying to grab what you need. Props to you if you like it that way.

Now that I wrote this, I think I'm realizing that I need to clean up a bit and reorganize my desk. I'll be back...