SubC I'm sending you strength. I'm glad you got those mats. The rubber surface will result in less wear and tear on you.

We got heavy wet snow last night. Very pretty. I'm working from home today. When I woke up and walked down the hall, I was so happy to see how clear it is. I can keep going in this direction. I have a bag ready for donation. It's trash night so I'll get that all sorted today. I'll also wash my new pjs. I bought pjs a few weeks back and then I went and bought three more pair--so I have one in every pattern. It's the right fabric and style and sometimes very hard to find. I like woven cotton. So I'll take a look at my vast pj collection and put several in a donation bag. Easy enough to do.

Coffee clinks!

Happy for the returned van,
Curious about the cows,
And following along.

My skunk sprayed my rooster.

I am doing better with my mental health, but very swamped at work. This year seems much more difficult than others.

I brought home all the mats. Stacked them out of the way for now.

Hello everyone! Tillie I'm glad you got some laundry done! We have another storm going on right now, but after days of hype, still no snow. Just rain, not very much of it, and really none of the wind they've promised. Time will tell

I had chowder and lobster rolls today with mom then I came home and napped. I've done nothing in terms of cleaning, but the house hasn't suffered any backsliding luckily.

Anony I'm trying to understand your cowgirl adventure (more details please!) and I hope your friend understands your vision as it bring a ladies' experience with no husbands necessary. I know my BF has no desire to insert himself into my time with friends but not everyone is that way.

I'm thinking about working from home tmr if we are having any sort of weather. I'll see what's going on come bedtime.

~♡~Coffee clinks to all!!!~♡~
My new skunk trap is designed stupidly, and it escaped already multiple times...#@&*! Now i remember having to modify this type of trap. Also, today i get to be a horseless cowgirl, which would be easy & fun in a field, but is super hard in the woods! It is warm & sunny here, which im grateful for, after hearing about all the snow storms everywhere!
Im encouraging my friend to come without her husband to work with me cleaning. Im presenting it as a sister bonding/ women's empowering experience, rather than her husband is a dick(sorry? ha ha)
~♡~Have an amazing day today, all of you wonderful folks!~♡~

Good Morning 🙂

Another day of doing long neglected laundry.
Today is cat bedding and some curtains.
I will finally be all caught up. There is a limit to how much I can hang out on the clothes line at one time. It all needs to be uncrowded and not bunched up to dry properly.
Today I need to cook something proper-like.
Been eating too many sandwiches & cold cereal, then I will clean the kitchen.
Next storm is coming by Friday so I better do whatever needs doing outdoors before then too.
Been getting a LOT of "scam" phone calls lately.
Remember Microsoft, the IRS, your credit cards, your bank and other businesses do not call you out of the cold and ask for your personal information.
Just hang up!

Good Morning Everybody 🙂
"Clink!"

So wonderful to read all your goings-ons. 🙂

Yesterday there was a break in the weather so first thing in the morning I got laundry out on the clothes line to dry.
Then I got a lot of other things done inside and outside since it was chilly but not bad at all outside.
This morning I will get even more laundry out on that clothes line. It all dried so nicely yesterday and smells delightful.
My allergic asthma is really acting up and that makes me sleepy all day.
Every time I sit down for a minute, I doze off.
But there is a lot of catching up to do around here now that we're not hibernating inside due to storms.
😉

Hello everyone! Glad you have your van back, CM.

I did loads and loads of laundry today, including kitty blankets. We are expecting another storm here--mid week and it's supposed to strike on my birthday. I'm taking the day off to spend with mom and if the weather is really crummy, I'll just bring over our lunch and we will watch tv. We generally go for lobster on my birthday. There's a good chowder place where I'll be able to get us lobster rolls and chowder should we find ourselves unable to travel.

I'm keeping up with the sweeping, making it a habit. Cat box is clean and I have taken out the recycling.

It's fun to picture everyone's homes. We all live in such different structures yet we are bound by our stuff.

~Yesterday was 'March 4th(Forth)', the only day that is a sentence, and a good one for all of us!
Tillie, im working on a new word for my 'home' that doesnt make me want to puke. My previous homes all had loads of charm, character & history. This thing does not, but my forest was almost a federal park before i bought it!
CM, im so glad you have your van going! Im really limited now, too. I can only go 45 mph & i put the hazard lights on when cars are behind me.
Porter, i think you are amazing! And i bet someday your daughter will cherish the memories yall made together!
Tatoulia, 'puttering music' sounds great! Have fun with your friend decorating!
I now have cows, in addition to all these other invading critters. Last night the skunk was chewing away at the cat food bin in my bedroom & would not leave or shut up. I ended up so frustrated & mad at it i repeatedly shot at it with my BB gun, knowing what would happen...and it did...so now im all bundled up with fans on & windows open...i have a new plan tho....
~♡~Love to you all!~♡~

~Yesterday was 'March 4th(Forth)', the only day that is a sentence, and a good one for all of us!
Tillie, im working on a new word for my 'home' that doesnt make me want to puke. My previous homes all had loads of charm, character & history. This thing does not, but my forest was almost a federal park before i bought it!
CM, im so glad you have your van going! Im really limited now, too. I can only go 45 mph & i put the hazard lights on when cars are behind me.
Porter, i think you are amazing! And i bet someday your daughter will cherish the memories yall made together!
Tatoulia, 'puttering music' sounds great! Have fun with your friend decorating!
I now have cows, in addition to all these other invading critters. Last night the skunk was chewing away at the cat food bin in my bedroom & would not leave or shut up. I ended up so frustrated & mad at it i repeatedly shot at it with my BB gun, knowing what would happen...and it did...so now im all bundled up with fans on & windows open...i have a new plan tho....
~♡~Love to you all!~♡~

Porter,

My condolences on the loss of your wife. Even though things weren't ideal, I'm sure there was love there and that you have some grief, so just know you're thought of by another friend here.

I have good news - my van is back as of this morning. There is a fuel smell the mechanic noticed but couldn't find a leak. I've noticed it off and on for some time. I pray that it will be found and easily fixable and not dangerous till it is found.

Having the van back changes the picture of how my life has been for so many weeks. Lots of catching up to do - and I still want to keep progressing here at home even though I now have the option of going out. Plus the cost of the repairs means I won't be able to go nuts shopping or eating out or anything, and that's fine. I'm just glad to be able to go to the library or my doctor's appointment, church, etc.

Captcha is AVENUE REBEL. How 'bout that! 😉

I rent a house.
It is a basement with the same foot print as the first floor, but it floods during extreme rain in excess of 1.5 inch an hour.
So it contains my hoard in totes on tables.

The first floor has four main rooms in the shape of a square.
The room with stairs has so much less space that I only keep a book shelf and a comfy chair .

The living room is very small with three theater chairs in it . And a 65" smart tv.
I put the dinning room in the front room instead of the living room. It fits my dinning room table better . It's a glass top table 6.1" in diameter. Eight chairs of mohogany sp . Claw foot. It's great for bible study . Or poker, but is difficult to reach the center if your not standing. Typically I keep roses in a vase in the center.

I used to ave a second card table like lounge , but turned it into a bed room. On the front of the house is large covered porch 10x24 I keep bikes and the second card table out there. Also in the same 10x24 in the back of the house is the kitchen and bathroom
The upstairs has very large master bedroom. A second bedroom is 12x9 . And the last bedroom is 9x7. I sleep here when the house is too hot or cold to heat or cool the whole house. There's a tent inside it. I keep all my survival gear.
packed in The room. I have an 8 inch foam bedding I side that prefer more that the traditial bed but there's no bathroom upstairs. I also keep a roll top desk in the master bedroom , but the master bed room is an art room and as many Instruments in it. The medium bed room is stark empty so if anyone wanting to live there could just move right in unfettered.

The yard is very small. But I park right up next to the house and have a fire pit and four chairs. The gutters leak so bad I cath the rain in large tubs and use the fresh water in various ways.
It's too much house for one person. But I can afford the rent on my own it takes 1/4 my pay per month. But it also has enough capacity to keep all my hoard neatly organized, And contained in the basement.

My favorite room is the dinning room it's the one with beautiful furniture and guests congregate there. There's a sofa able on one wall. And on it is two kuerig beverage makers. One for tea the other for coffee. The kitchen has an impressive amout of shelving I installed so my pantry is vast.
I keep a stock of canned and boxed foods to last 6 months. So there's enough tea and coffee of so many sorts. I use 100 shatter proof air tight containers. To keep all my foods. From being eaten by bugs or rodents.

I built a perch for my cat Jackie to look out of all four side of the house or sleep in the sun in the window sills. She prefers to be outside in better weather.

Quick drive by. Spent day by myself. BF is sick poor thing, and I'm taking Wednesday off to spend with mom, so I decided to take the day to myself. I basically just relaxed and I feel better for it. I did shower and wash my hair. I also got out to grocery store.

My friend called from overseas. I can't wait til she's here and we can start moving the furniture and finalizing our plans.

It is fun hearing about everyone's houses! I live on one floor in an old brownstone. The layout is very nice, with the bedroom on one end and the living spaces in the back. I have very high ceilings and tall windows. My bedroom has a giant curved wall and in the back I have a bay window where my dining table, chairs, new drapes and chandelier are. My apt is small but the high ceilings give it a grander feel. The layout is also very helpful-with the rooms spread apart it feels more spacious. But it's not. 🙂

Thanks subc

The process of moving on from a marriage has no guarantees.,
Is why I'm sooooo focussed on mine own health.
I do want to love again. I didn't expect to.
But I've had two crushes on other women since my wife passed. I dont know that ready for competing for woman. But I'm starting to put myself out there.
I had resigned myself to thinking I'd date only women my age .
But after the last crush, where having a child was discussed.
It stirred me.
So no I don't just want a younger woman. I want to find a match and if we have a family that would make me happy too. Nothing off the table. But I don't want to have kids I can't raise. So it would need to be soon.
I'm in the christian singles dating thing but I'm just exploring.

I also finally settled on music

I have organization music . And then a faster upbeat music to switch to actually cleaning , with water, vaccum, or scrubbings
Such a subtle difference. But it's like I can get caught in a mood to just keep organizing and reorginizing but nothing get cleaned. But now I put fast tempo music an I. The playlist. It switches by itself. And within a song or two it prompts me to get out the towels and start cleaning .

Porter,

I am glad that you are finding ways to let your art heal you.

I wanted to comment on something you said a while back, about 49 being too old to have another family.

49 is not too old to be a father. There are women in their 40's having children. Yes, usually early 40's, but if you met the right woman, that would not be too much of an age gap.

There are 1,000s of children in need of foster homes and new families. My friend adopted her two youngest daughters as toddlers - her third "family" in her 50s.

My dad had a serious health scare at 47. He lost 100lbs and became a runner. He said "one of the glories of a misspent youth is that middle age looks pretty good" people would see him out with my baby and think he was her dad. you are already well on your way.

Tillie, I too am enjoying the dollhouse stories. I love the parallels between your dollhouse and real house. I wonder if my real house would be easier to manage if 8 thought of it as a giant dollhouse?

My youngest is home for spring break. She has brought things to store in my house. Her lease ends the beginning of May and she does not know where she will go. She graduates and doesn't have a job lined up yet.

This week I'm being a little selfish .
I started cleaning the art room. The room I prepared for my daughter to do artist things. She left it all behind , said to throw it all away. It was like a grief. I lost the daughter I was trying to raise, but that is just what I was wanting for her.

I started re arranging the room into to fit my habits.
I don't use it for creative outlet. Or those habits would silence my efforts to explore other artist behaviors.

I'm not good at painting or drawing. But I can do poorly at calligraphy . I recently bought a dozen roses on valentines day. And managed to give away three roses. They were white. I put the rest Into a vase on my dinning table and said to myself . These are for me joking to myself. I just don't love myself that much, but I'm trying to.
After the roses no longer look nice wilted. I put them in my food dehydrator. Then carefully peeled the pedals . Rehydrated them in a microwave bag. And then let air dry flattened like paper. Today I'm writing words I wrote as poems for my silent crush. On the pedals and putting them I to a special vase. In my hoard is special vase that put something personal from every girl or woman I've ever felt passion for. The crush is over when I broke my silence. She was polite in letting know she wouldn't feel the same.
So I've been putting my time into those roses that were for me. I hadn't felt that way in many years and I'm spending my day putting the roses away into the hoard , but before I do , I'm letting my feelings be expressed in artistic fashion.
I think it's good enough to be framed and placed on one of my walls.
It is tiny poem about a kiss I blew that has lost it's way.
And on one of the pedals is a kiss. I made with the calligraphy pen. Then I plan to put it all away. Leaving no mess behind.

Good Morning Everybody 🙂
"Clink!"

Hi Tatoulia 🙂
Hope everybody there is alright after that storm.
Gusting winds shaking buildings is enough to make anybody queasy. (((hugs)))
WTG! for dishes & laundry! 😀
Glad you are enjoying my dollhouse escapades.
It's like a miniature of my real life.
Spending years hunting for exactly what I want and need.
Sometimes I have too much or not the right things.
Finding something better and then having to let go of something else not quite right.
In real life after Steven's Grandmother died we had her entire household of items.
Some things I immediately sold at a yard sale or donated to a thrift shop.
But there was a lot that I did not know if I wanted or not because I had not lived with them in my own home.
At the time I was living in a converted bus RV.
So we had boxes and furniture in storage for about a year.
When we moved into a little place I slowly unpacked the boxes and lived with the items for a while.
Only then could I decide what I wanted to keep for myself. It took several years to make all the final decisions.
She was a dear friend of mine and now I have just the things of hers that I treasure and use.

Hi Subclinical 🙂
Happy that you went to the feed store. 😀
I enjoyed reading about your home.
My house started out as a one room house in a mining camp that is now a ghost town.
Someone moved the house to where it now stands.
At some time someone wired it for electricity once the dam was built and electricity was available, 1930s 0r 40s.
Then someone added on an indoor bathroom and indoor plumbing.
Then someone not skilled at all in building added two tiny rooms on the north side as bedrooms.

I love that most all of us here live in homes that have a lot of character, personality and history. 😀

Another dusting of snow over night but lots of sunshine today.
Looks like I may get to put on my snow boots and hang out laundry on Tuesday.

Anony, my home is a modified double-wide prefab.

They put it on a basement instead of a foundation, so on3 bathroom was reduced to allow stairs. and then added a pop-up half story (there are big hinges in my crawl space) and porches we enclosed the porches, and added an entry hall and big room on the back.

I think You should consider yourself part of the trendy "modular living" or "small house" movement. A lot of those " tiny houses" are basically cramped, expensive trailers.

I went to the feed store today, which where I live is a social outing. I bought a T-shirt I like but don't need and two more baby goat collars, and I made a possible sale contact for one of the boy babies.

Hello everyone!

We had a big storm here yesterday--all water and wind. My office was creaking and by mid day I felt queasy. i changed desks and felt much better. The buildings are designed to take the wind.

I was with brother today and stopped by to see mom. BF is coming down with something. I'm doing my sheets in the washer and I have my dishwasher running.

Tillie your dollhouse fascinates me--esp the idea that it needs to be de-boarded. I got a lot out of that process. Thank you.

I know that everyone has interesting things going on and forgive me for not writing them down just now. Know that I'm glad to see everyone on here. I'm going to put on some puttering music.

Good Morning Everybody 🙂
"Clink!"

Snowed all last afternoon and night.
This morning the sun is shining and the world is covered with bright white snow!.
Looks so clean and beautiful.
Very quiet out there too because we are all kind of snowed in now.
I offered all the cats the chance to go outside and none of them accepted. ;P
My plans for today are to just hang out in here. 🙂

Hello Everyone 🙂

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
Boy, I sure hope that trade/deal works out for you.
I like that artsy fartsy paint job you are planning on doing to it! 😀
My décor & clothing style is old Hippie chick. 😉
How about using "modular home" instead of trailer?

Snowing right now. Gentle little fluffs slowly falling down.
My dollhouse was having a clutter/hoarding problem.
Since I recently purchased two whole rooms of fine, fancy, quality furniture and accessories I now have a bit too much.
Been sorting out and making very hard decisions as to what I want to keep and what to let go of.
All of the new furniture is keepers but some of the new accessories are not to my liking.
Now there are six pieces of furniture that I no longer need and some of the old accessories were only added because they fit and filled the space.
This has been really hard because the old furniture was extremely hard to find or I made it myself.
Some of the old accessories are quality pieces but are the wrong style for the house.
Next week somebody is going to be so happy to find these items for sale at the thrift shop.
It feels really good to have all the excess sorted out.
Now, I will keep searching/hunting for the items that I would still like to have in my dollhouse.
WHAT FUN!!! ;D

~♡~Howdy, Hoarder Homies!!!~♡~
SubC, I totally understand about swimming being like a meditation! I used to do laps after work & it was AMAZING!!! It sounds perfect for you!
Porter, WOW! You have come a long way! And 49 is not 'too old' for love at all!!! ~♡~
Tillie, i love that youre having such fun with your doll house!
Im trying to work a trade with my friend to help me put panels on the front of my trailer(i detest that word!) where the old ones fell off. He hasnt been real good about his end of trades so far, but im gonna up my pushing him on this! The $180. i loaned him to get his truck out of impound would be an excellent trade for me if he even halfway helps me with this! Im going to paint them colorfully for a cute, funky, artsy look....rather than the current trailer trash look...ha ha ;D

Good Morning Everybody 🙂
First morning tea "clink!"

Hi Subclinical 🙂
WAY TO GO! for all the swimming! 😀
Seems like a great way to exercise and release a lot of physical tension.
Is the remaining tension coming from those nasty nagging voices in your head?
I practice talking back to all my nasty negative voices. Telling them off and strongly making positive statements. (((HUGS)))

Hi Porter 🙂
Yes, you have traveled such a long hard road to get where you are right now.
All your hard work and self discovery has been paying off tremendously.
Keep up all the great striving for a better future and things will continue to improve in your own spiritual awareness.
There are a lot of nice single females in your age bracket out there, you just need to be patient and you will find someone.
To find someone with common interests as you, you need to get out in the community where they tend to be.
Find a healthy nutrition cooking class, find a place where people are working on ecologically based housing, go to a place concerned with finding good homes for stray cats, etc...
Those are the places where you will find someone to spend time with. (((HUGS)))

The terrible winds have finally stopped. They tore up a lot of the metal roofing on the carport last night.
Doesn't really concern me, I have nothing in the carport, but he has a massive Heap-O-Hoard out there.
The overflow from the garage, stuff he doesn't want to get wet.
The stuff right up against the house where lots of mice, rats and venomous spiders live.
Anyways, today I will do a little bit of tidying up in here then do some more playing.
Been having fun redecorating the dollhouse as I find things to re-do it with.
Yesterday I found the perfect fabric to re-carpet the tiny bedroom. 🙂

Checking in.

Things are well. Still focussed on health of just myself.
It's seems long ago now, that I felt that desperate feeling of living in a hoard , but overwhelmed. By the amount of ti e and effort to live a non hoarded purged life.

It was a 15 year struggle living with a hoarder . Individually we were not hoarders , but together we added up to being a family of hoarders . No other word could describe us better. Hoarders.
It became time to let others in to the help with my wife's medical issues. So I started in the kitchen , then the bath room. Then the areas that connected the kitch and bath .
Then I purged the entire front room by stacking all of it somewhere else in the house . The dinning room.

For support I would vent my thoughts here . Instead of venting my frustrations to my wife and child.

I reached out to family and friends and scheduled a day before superbowl clearing party. With lots of chili .
Bought a ton of containers that are for stacking , rented a storage unit. We cleared the entire downstairs of all objects , painted walls and re carpeted . It was a very open area that any and everyone could be safe and clean sitiing with us.

My wife's health got much worse , she could no longer go upstairs to her room. The next week end I organized the storage and made a digital photograph of every tub in storage so that even if not optimized the hoard was easily accessible .
So I organized the storage like a horseshoe. Dividing my stuff from their stuff , their stuff separated too. We each had a wall of clutter. But I was purging mine to better fit .

Shortly there after I moved my wife's bed downstairs into the cleared dinning room, but the mattress was damaged it was better we got a huge couch and put it in the back porch that is finished like the rest of the house.it was near the bathroom .
I tackled her room upstairs and mine. Into more totes then took them to storage too, but had to get a second unit.
Only 1 room left. My daughters room . One day when her friends came for a visit. I bribed them with a drum set if they would help me move her room into her mothers old room , it was bigger. And now the whole house was purged.

But I still got help from my wife's insurance benefits of a cleaning support once every two weeks. And my wife's mother began to stay with us to help with more care while I was at work.
Again I sought help to vent here Instead of to their faces.

Then our landlord did an inspection. Then for unknown reason put us out in twenty days. During the move my wife became so I'll she was hospitalized , only spending a few weeks in the new house .

I was able to move everything out the storages Into the basement. But my wife left home for her mothers , I was told I was not welcome there. Shortly after my daughter decided to go live with her aunt. Now I was in a single income situation with four bedroom house. Living alone.

I rearranged the house and geared it for poker parties , I made just enough money to help pay the bills , and it was nice to not have a lonely house, but a friend hade a better place and my poker crowd now gies to his place sometimes.

I received word that my wife died and at the funeral I was treated like a hoarder and that it was all my fault, even told that her cancer was probably because of the way we lived.
I emailed them pictures. Stating that it wasn't just me, dead mice and two decomposed rats in her bed. I stopped living in her room shortly after our daughter was born. We lived in seperste rooms for more than ten years.

I purged nearly every trace of her possessions. There s nothing left. My daughters too. I kept her room ready if she decided to come back, but after awhile I just decided it's her stuff and she can deal with it. Then the basement flooded 14 inches. I lost alot of my things but I spend a week sterilizing the wet basement . And put metal legged tables and put containers on the tables . All my hoard is still in the basement.
I then adopted a daily cleaning ritual where in my solitude I would start in the yard , and clean in a spiral path .every room until every room was cleaned every day. Then as I no longer felt compulsive about the cleaning have made it a weekly event that akes two days .

My hoarders house is gone , but so is my family.
I'm slowly bring in artful things and learning to love myself better. Ive started getting crushes on women and try to date ,but I'm 49. So it's not the same as being 30 with the chance of raising children again.

I'm no longer terrified of anyone coming into my home. Nor do I feel overwhelmed keeping the house clean. I've minimized the things I collect.my cat kills any mice there's no bugs, and keep only two bowls two plates , two spoons and forks in the kitchen sink.
The food has scrutinized, I become a health food eater. I've self taught myself about longevity . Utilizing diet and exercise to be on path to live longer through fasting and excellent nutrition and possibly love again.

I mean I love my cat Jackie , but I'm looking for a woman now. Life's too short to live without passion.

Yay! Great to hear from anony and criticalmass! I so wish I could see the quilt.

I have been swimming. I have been swimming longer and longer and longer. Tonight I swam 2000 meters. I am realizing it is not exercise, it is meditation, or possibly just escapism. I have ear issues, so i wear fancy earplugs to keep water out - they also keep out sound. The pool plays music, but all I can hear is my breathing. I have very poor vision, so even with goggles, I can barely see the lane mark on the bottom of the pool and that is all. I am "alone", wrapped in water, I count laps, I don't want to get out.

When I finally do get back to the car I am so relaxed, but by the time I got home almost an hour later tonight I realized I was driving with one hand and the other was clenched in a fist.

My socks have been getting holes. I bought a 3pack of new sports socks.

How wonderful to catch up with you both! 😀

Hi CriticalMass 🙂
Sounds like there is a lot of interesting things going on there this month.
Hope you get to attend them all.
Electrical wiring on vehicles is always a big headache to get all straightened out.
Hope it's not much longer.

Hi Anonymoniker 🙂
WAY TO GO! for all your 3 daily goals! 😀
I'm so happy you are not feeling guilty and sticking to your resolutions concerning that relationship. (((HUGS)))

~♡~Greetings & coffee clinks to all!!!~♡~
Elsa, i love that quote! And it is very applicable to my situation here, as well as my life in general! 😀
I dont think id know enough high tech talk to explain anything about the website on my phone? Its like its not mobile anymore. I have to keep expanding & sliding the screen across to read posts. Once im writing, it doesnt seem different.
Ive been trying to have 3 goals a day that are not just routine maintenance. That has worked well for me.
Today, i want to do the shelf over the toilet in the bathroom. Im simply going to clean everything & rearrange it to look nicer....i havent figured out the other 2 goals yet?
....aside from my place being in its usual disgusting state, ive been dealing with personal boundaries with both my ex, who wont accept my new boundaries & i wont have it any other way, so, just like a child, he has a tantrum, then apologizes, like that is enough & thinks ill take him back. Im at a place where id rather be alone! And, my long time friend's husband makes trouble every time they visit, and i have made it clear im not letting him come back. And i dont feel guilty about it! HA!
~♡~I hope you each have a fantastic day & have a chance today to experience that amazing feeling of accomplishment & the fresh, lightness than letting go of stuff, dust & darkness bring us all!!!~♡~

~♡~Greetings & coffee clinks to all!!!~♡~
Elsa, i love that quote! And it is very applicable to my situation here, as well as my life in general! 😀
I dont think id know enough high tech talk to explain anything about the website on my phone? Its like its not mobile anymore. I have to keep expanding & sliding the screen across to read posts. Once im writing, it doesnt seem different.
Ive been trying to have 3 goals a day that are not just routine maintenance. That has worked well for me.
Today, i want to do the shelf over the toilet in the bathroom. Im simply going to clean everything & rearrange it to look nicer....i havent figured out the other 2 goals yet?
....aside from my place being in its usual disgusting state, ive been dealing with personal boundaries with both my ex, who wont accept my new boundaries & i wont have it any other way, so, just like a child, he has a tantrum, then apologizes, like that is enough & thinks ill take him back. Im at a place where id rather be alone! And, my long time friend's husband makes trouble every time they visit, and i have made it clear im not letting him come back. And i dont feel guilty about it! HA!
~♡~I hope you each have a fantastic day & have a chance today to experience that amazing feeling of accomplishment & the fresh, lightness than letting go of stuff, dust & darkness bring us all!!!~♡~

HAPPY MARCH!

Aquamarine is the birthstone - it was my dad's. 🙂

I'll try to start posting in here a little bit and more often again. Still don't have my van (more below on that) and it's like the rhythm of my life has been so different - I posted about that before; some of it has been a good thing and allowed for catching up loose ends.

Welcome Elise, I have ADD & OCD too so I feel ya! I had read sometime back that ADD may be more of a trigger for hoarding than OCD. The jury's probably still out. But welcome to our wild & crazy fun bunch.

Anony, I was just thinking about you last night! Hope the computer or whatever glitches will allow you and everyone who wants to post to do so easily from here on out.

I did get to go to my clutter club last week, with the friend who also goes. She's the one I had some tension with over the cat sitting. We are speaking, I guess she thought I wasn't speaking to her. It'll take more time to work out the issue about the cats but otherwise we're business as usual. I'm glad; I don't like unresolved stuff with friends. It nags at my mind and makes me feel discouraged.

This month we're supposed to have a couple of guys at the clutter meeting who have hoarding cleaning franchises including the one for Steri-Clean. I remember the latter fellow from when Cory came to my town, though it was Cory I spoke with more at length.

So during my enforced confinement, I have been getting some things done. Laundry going now. Planning to do some paperwork stuff that will reduce clutter and reclaim areas for creative fun activity. Been doing some writing of short pieces and more planning for completing the draft of my sci-fi book. I also feel a need for doing crafts - doll clothes and/or quilting.

This weekend is the quilt bingo fundraiser at my church. I'll have to see how my transportation situation goes. The guild also finished quilting the quilt I finished last year and donated. I cut the binding strips there at church yesterday (more room to spread out!) and will embark on the mysterious process of how they get sewn onto the quilt (hoping it's easier than it looks in the instructions), and then it will be done!

Re the van: Been in touch with the mechanic, sounds like it's getting close to being done. It's taken longer due to the electrical wiring problem and the difficulties he's had ordering parts for such an ancient vehicle. It will likely need a battery too, but I have been given a membership to Costco where I understand they can be had at a reasonable price.

So MAYBE by the next time I post I will have wheels...

Captcha is Ruud Flugplatz. German? Klingon?

Good Morning Everybody 🙂
Tea "clink!"
It's March already.
For being the shortest month, February seemed to drag on a long time for me this year.

The winds are raging today bringing in the next snow storm.
Not a nice day to venture outside for anything.
Good thing I have fun stuff to do inside. ;D

Tatoulia, WTG! for clearing off that little table! 😀

Everybody stay safe with all these storms brewing all across the Nation. (((hugs)))