This morning was pretty typical. Bit was sleeping when N left, so when she woke up, she was pretty mad that he wasn't there. Eventually she calmed down and I managed to get her ready to go. She is NOT a morning person, but that's OK. Neither am I.
This week is fairly light: had a snow day Monday, weigh in tonight, chat and the Top Chef reuinion; tomorrow I might go sign up for Let's Dish and get my freebie, I probably won't go see my mom since she's sick and I'm seeing her Saturday; Friday I'm picking up Bit from daycare; Saturday N is gaming, and I'm taking Bit to see my mom and maybe my grandma who just moved to be closer to my aunt (and get into a better nursing home); Sunday we're celebrating my dad's birthday.
Next week is reasonably normal. Bit has a follow-up for her ears on Friday 3/13 morning; Saturday 3/14 we're supposed to have a family get-together for my Grandma's birthday and Bit's swim class starts; Sunday 3/15 our friends might visit.
Then I have a meeting for work Monday 3/16 night and my 2nd therapy session on Tuesday 3/17; I'm planning on Let's Dish for Saturday 3/21 and Nightwatch is on Sunday 3/22 (Andrew should be observing in preparation for joining the game!)
And that's only 3 weeks!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Stuff & Things
Memory clutter and organization
I'm a sentimental fool. I tend to forget all but the deepest hurts, so I'm frequently afflicted with nostalgia. I feel the need to keep photos, journals, school papers, and the like. Now that I'm an unclutterer, a disciple of Peter Walsh, I've been thinking more about how to preserve, honor, and store my forms of nostalgia.
Photographs: I am scanning old photos to create a digital archive. Not only will this enable me to share the photos easily with family and friends, but I can create photo books instead of traditional photo albums (which is something I find very tedious). Brilliant! I'm not sure how much "space" my photo project will take, so I'm going to use a 250 GB portable hard drive to start.
Journals: Thanks once again to a timely post on Unclutterer, I have some food for thought on this one. I have long intended to scan or re-type some of my old journals. I think once I've been through that process, I will better know whether I want to keep any of the originals (pages or books). I know there are a few more artistic journals (collage style) that I'd like to keep, but I think it will depend on their content to some degree.
Other memoirs: I'm not sure how to handle. I need to find time to go through it all and determine which pieces are truly meaningful. Then I can figure out if I need a keepsake box or a scrapbook of some kind. My mom has a couple of scrapbooks from her youth that I enjoyed looking at when I was younger and will hopefully get to enjoy sharing with my daughter.
I think that you should save some things for yourself and future generations, just not too much. You can't let the "things" overpower your life in the here and now. As Peter Walsh always says, your things and home should all work togehter to help you live the life you want. It's important to keep this in mind when dealing with clutter, even (or especially) the emotional/nostalgic kind.
I'm a sentimental fool. I tend to forget all but the deepest hurts, so I'm frequently afflicted with nostalgia. I feel the need to keep photos, journals, school papers, and the like. Now that I'm an unclutterer, a disciple of Peter Walsh, I've been thinking more about how to preserve, honor, and store my forms of nostalgia.
Photographs: I am scanning old photos to create a digital archive. Not only will this enable me to share the photos easily with family and friends, but I can create photo books instead of traditional photo albums (which is something I find very tedious). Brilliant! I'm not sure how much "space" my photo project will take, so I'm going to use a 250 GB portable hard drive to start.
Journals: Thanks once again to a timely post on Unclutterer, I have some food for thought on this one. I have long intended to scan or re-type some of my old journals. I think once I've been through that process, I will better know whether I want to keep any of the originals (pages or books). I know there are a few more artistic journals (collage style) that I'd like to keep, but I think it will depend on their content to some degree.
Other memoirs: I'm not sure how to handle. I need to find time to go through it all and determine which pieces are truly meaningful. Then I can figure out if I need a keepsake box or a scrapbook of some kind. My mom has a couple of scrapbooks from her youth that I enjoyed looking at when I was younger and will hopefully get to enjoy sharing with my daughter.
I think that you should save some things for yourself and future generations, just not too much. You can't let the "things" overpower your life in the here and now. As Peter Walsh always says, your things and home should all work togehter to help you live the life you want. It's important to keep this in mind when dealing with clutter, even (or especially) the emotional/nostalgic kind.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Today's plan
Nothing major. Just a work day. Two sickies at home. Trying not to be sick myself. (Drinking lots of water and coldeeze.)
This morning I prepped the crock pot, had a bagelful and coffee, while the others had some oatmeal (Bit didn't finish).
I'm planning to hit the gym for some cardio this afternoon.
Then I need to return something to Target and I might pick up a few things. And going to weigh in. We'll have dinner (chili) and hopefully everyone will be feeling better.
It's chat/finance night.
This morning I prepped the crock pot, had a bagelful and coffee, while the others had some oatmeal (Bit didn't finish).
I'm planning to hit the gym for some cardio this afternoon.
Then I need to return something to Target and I might pick up a few things. And going to weigh in. We'll have dinner (chili) and hopefully everyone will be feeling better.
It's chat/finance night.
Monday, February 2, 2009
February Resolution Goals
Time for a new set of 2009 resolution related goals.
- Organize/declutter.--I'm currently obsessed with rearranging Arkham Horror b/c I'm sick of hauling out the heavy scrapbook storage case we have. So that's coming soon. We also got new furniture for our living room (desk, bookshelf), so they need to go up. I can put out stuff for Purple Heart this week and save myself a trip to Goodwill, yay!
- Set up our wills.--I need to get on us to get the life insurance and other financial data; that should go hand-in-hand (to some degree) with tax prep.
- Paint the inside of my house.--I'd really like to work on painting our bedroom this month, at least decide on the design.
- Do some bathroom fix-ups.--Need to call to set up an evaluation/estimate.
- Work on my stress management.--Yes. I'm getting better, but emotional eating is kicking my butt.
- Continue meal planning/exercise/improved nutrition.--See above.
- Save money.--Seriously need to focus on this...we just spent way too much money in the last week. So the rest of Feb. needs to be lean.
- Work on my photo archive project.--I should start on this, but I'm focused on organization/decluttering right now.
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