Room with a View

I just started my semi-annual desk clutter overhaul. 90% of it is a pile of documents that need to be shredded, which hasn't been done because the shredder can't be plugged in unless I unplug something else. Right now I'm using the available outlets, so it will wait. Meanwhile, I'm looking around at the other stuff I see every day, here by the computer. One of the things I used to do on my forums was ask people to tell me what they saw from their desks... usually got standard answers, but sometimes someone would say "a giraffe" or something equally intriguing.

A few of the random objets d'moi...

• Two foil-wrapped chocolate roses from last Valentine's Day. I could never eat things like that... I hate unwrapping them. And they go along with the marshmallow Santas from 4 seasons ago, the ones with the accidental naughty bits due to a mold malfunction. I should put those on eBay.
• Approximately 5 zillion assorted pens and pencils in a milk-glass container. I can never find the one I want... it usually shows itself right there in plain view once I've stopped looking for it. (I love good pens.. whenever I see a cashier or customer using one in a store, or have to use one myself, I'm always checking out the brand if it has a certain flow to it or writes the way I like. Does anyone else do this? :-/ )
• A giant glass mason jar, formerly full of pickles, now full of bubblegum machine toys. Both former and current contents are obsessions of mine.
• Candles.. candles.. candles...
• A corkboard with the usual gamut of clipped comic strips, snapshots, oddball tags and labels, stickers, souvenirs, etc.
• A pro wrestler kite and ping-pong-ball shooter, among other wrestling-related stuff. Oh, and an air freshener, in case anyone wants to know what "pro wrestler" smells like. Yeah... I didn't open it either.
• A free flyswatter from the insurance company. I haven't used it yet. The best ones were those old wire-handled kind with the plastic mesh on the end... the backs of my legs got swatted more than the flies ever did. Suckers had a good sting to em!
• Old vinyl records and a phonograph. I believe I play albums more often than I do CD's. Next to it is a brand-new iPod I won back in April, and still have not used. I keep moving it to get to the record player knobs.
• A scale replica of a 426 Hemi engine with moving parts and a diecast '59 Caddy Eldorado.
• An old Canon AE1 program camera that I need to get in to the repair shop for a new seal. In spite of having several nice modern cameras, those old AE1's just have a bit of charm about them, and I'd like to use it again. I miss the shuttersqueak!
• A framed movie still of Brandon Lee from The Crow. Naturally.
• Candles... candles... candles...
• A small pile of various sour candies, plus half a roll of Butter Rum Life savers. Hard to find those anymore. Also half a bag of recently-recalled White Rabbit taffy. For the record, candy lasts forever in this house. I rarely eat it, but when I want it, there's no shortage to choose from.
• Fireballs rock. That is all.