Life has a way of being funny…. and funny is not always of the ha ha persuasion
I did some walking on Wednesday for an appointment… there wasn’t any parking close to where I needed to be so I parked and walked a slight uphill grade to get to where the first appointment was and then walked briskly to the next appointment… yesterday I thought well that’s cool no discomfort as a result of the walking uphill or doing a flight of stairs… this morning my hips and knees are screaming bloody murder…. this only stands to get better as I spend more time out of the house
Over the length of my life I have probably owned 1000 binders….three ring, six ring, eight ring, big, fat, small, skinny….. tons of binders in every colour under the sun….so I’m working on a project that requires one…do you suppose I can find one? No…I’ll have to go buy one…apparently they were part of my last effort to sort and downsize my den. And sorting and downsizing my den only led to other rooms in the house being further cluttererd…sigh
Apparently I truly am my mother’s daughter…although the things I seem to collect seem relevant at the time…just how relevant can they be while I am continually having to make lists of things to pick up while out?
I have to clean out my bathroom as it’s getting refurbished next week (at least I hope it will be next week)..I’m getting new facets, and toilet and flooring. I need boxes to fill…didn’t I just put about 15 boxes out for recycle last night?
And once said boxes are full of bathroom junk…where the hell will I store them? While it’s only likely for three or four days it’s going to be hell trying to find someplace in my wee house to store them – given that I have the granddaddy of all Vilas coffee tables in the living room – and a wall unit that while not very wide, still removes about 8 inches from the breadth of my living room. A canopy bed in the bedroom that I adore – but takes up most of the floor space in there as well as a huge lazy boy in the den – that was my dad’s – so it ain’t going anywhere…
Also, I have craft supplies up the wazoo…do you think I can find a plain black ink fine tip pen? Not likely…
I’ve got a Vilas Maple love seat and chair in my den that I want to get rid of…I only kept them because my mom always said they were the only furniture in the world that she cold
sit in and have her feet touch the floor…currently they seem to have accumulated the in-between clothes…you know? the clothing that is too clean to put in the wash but not clean enough for the clean closet? What the hell do you do with them? Put them back in the closet and hope for the best? I guess once I get it cleaned off I can list them in Used Victoria or Varage Sale or even eBay…although I can’t see myself trying to ship them…that would be a gong show I don’t need…I can’t imagine anyone else wanting them – but I can’t make myself throw them out – they are Vilas!
Over the time I’ve been off work (19 months sounds so much longer to me than a year and a half) my home has gotten so much more lived in looking than it ever did before….hence the de-cluttering…. however what seems to be happening is that an effort to de-clutter I’ve actually created more clutter….
So I’m reading David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” in hopes that it will give me some sort of amazing understanding of how to do all these things without it driving me crazy with the irony that is my life.
Which is the book I was trying to load on my iPad the other day and ended up having to put on my Kobo because my iPad my iPhone and iTunes refuse to talk nicely to each other so I still can’t put music on my phone…which of course makes me wonder if it’s my refurbished PC tower that’s causing the issues because I know it’s also having issues with the sound-card at the moment.
Which also suggests a puzzle around the fact that I removed the signature from both my email addresses however it still shows up when I email from my iPhone or my iPad?
All of this truly makes me wonder if I should be tested for ADHD…how does one get tested as an adult? I’m making lists of things I should do – so far the list making has become a full time job…and because they are so extensive, and while I can’t get them out of my head – I’m not getting what I should be doing done – cos the list making is all encompassing…again – hence the reading of the David Allen book
and this is all before coffee this morning….sheesh! I’m sure that there’s more that I will remember as soon as I post this to my blog – but that’s the nature of my beast these days…See? Funny…but not necessarily hahaha funny…
…more coffee please!
