Oh Tillie! I am so sorry! That is true despair, being up in the dead of night with really awful thoughts. I'm so sorry.

SubC I'm excited about the booth and your sales. I would so love to see your work. I'm excited for you. Your family is so sweet. I bet that was a fun evening. You have a lot this week! I know when I have too many evenings scheduled that I start to feel like I can't breathe, so I try not to do that. One thing that has eased up my life and breathing room is ending that ridiculous obligation of spending each Saturday with my brother. I have time and space to breathe!

CM! You were sound asleep! My goodness! Grateful you didn't hit your head! Sounds like you had a fun time at the doll show! I go to a lot of lectures on various topics out of the pure enjoyment of the learning. I miss going to little fairs and lectures with my mom. I still do many of these things, but I miss doing with mom.

Mom's cat is working on it. She hides a lot but is eating and mom sees her occasionally. She's such a pretty little one. I washed mom's dishes and brought them back to her last night. I can't believe I hadn't thought of this earlier. And now we know they are really clean. I say that because an exhausted 90 year old with poor vision cannot get the same results as a brand new dishwasher. I then wrapped her dishes in a clean tea towel, and brought them back. It's going to be a good system for us.

I have a trip planned in mid September and already I'm trying to back out of it. I don't know why I do this. This has been my behavior patterns for decades. I've rented a car for it and I will have a wonderful, relaxing, much needed get-away. I have a jigsaw puzzle from the Museum of Fine Arts and two Sunday NY Times crossword puzzles so essentially I'm ready to go. I can have BF feed the cat on the Saturday and Sunday I'm gone and I'll feed her the Friday that I leave and of course the Monday I come back. I have the rental til Tuesday and I also took Tuesday off in case I decide to stay an extra day.

I'd be happiest if BF just decided to stay here those nights but I won't push him. I'll throw it out there and see if it sticks

There's a badger in my closet and I'll go address it.

I'm sorry Tillie.

The things in our heads are the hardest.

Today is a day for me to stay home, rest, and prep for my week, because starting tomorrow, I am away from home every day for 5 days. 6 if I go to the dinner party.

Here it is 3:30am and I have been awake for a while now.
I fall asleep just fine but after only a few hours I wake up and can't get my mind to stop.
Nothing but bad thoughts, so many bad thoughts.

Hi Subclinical
You're welcome sweetie (((HUG)))

Happy you had family company and a dirty dog too. 😉

GREAT! that you have enough to fill a booth.
Have fun making pumpkin bowls.
They should be big sellers.

Then after preparation for this sale is all over with you can start making Christmas themed items.
You'll do great.

WTG! with your new earlier to bed schedule routine.

CM, i'm glad you are ok.

the doll show sounds like fun. I used to love to go to doll shows with my grandmother.

Tillie, I too am angry about the roof. I think my answer to "what do you want me to say" would be "I want you to say the account numbers and passwords."

Tatoulia, good to hear there is kitty progress.

Hi Debbie. Thank you.

Thank you to all of you.

I have enough to fill the booth, but I will be doing a few particular fall pieces - like my pumpkin bowls. I am also doing some Christmas stuff, but that is more for the studio fair in November.

The last two Saturday markets are the end of September and the end of October.

Dsil texted dh this afternoon and invited himself and Dd over to cook us dinner, so that was fun. The dog, as usual, needed a bath, so I have a load of dog towels going in my washer.

I stayed up late tonight and need to get to bed!

Good Evening Everyone

Hi CriticalMass
Glad you got out and enjoyed that doll show. 😀

WOW! you sprang up so fast your feet were still sleeping there!
No wonder you fell so soundly asleep, chickens & biscuits do that. 😉

Have a good little vacation having the place to yourself.
It's always nice to not have to worry or work around someone else's schedule.

Legal help would not help me with what I need help with.
I need a hoarding task force.
The financial stuff I could get but not the code words to access the online bill paying accounts.
But push come to shove, I can just open new online accounts and take over.
But it would be easier if he would just give me access and a list of just what bills he has besides the ones I know about like the utilities, insurance and credit card.
What I think it is that he has mismanaged everything and does not want me to find out how he has squandered money.
But I already know about most all his 500.00+ squandering for things he never used.

Saw roommate off this a.m. Just yesterday I had recalled I wanted to go to the Kansas Doll Show today. So I did.

This is different from the Wichita Doll Show which will be at the end of September. This one featured "reborn," highly realistic art dolls most of which look uncannily like real babies. I didn't know if I'd find that cute or creepy, but I was curious.

They were generally cute. Some fantasy creatures like fairy dolls and dragons too. It's a high-end thing so the only money I spent was for admission but I just enjoyed learning about the process. It ties in loosely with the small amount of doll sculpting I've done and hope to do again, and my desire to make little aliens.

Came back here intending to eat leftover chicken & biscuit then go to 5:30 Mass. Fell into a food coma sitting on the sofa, woke at 4:55, hurried to get up but my feet were still asleep. Pitched forward onto hands and knees, startling myself and the cats and jarring my bones. But got a bandaid on my knee and made it to church. I'm getting ready to have a snack and ibuprofen now. I may fade pretty early tonight.

SubC, I will pray for both those young men, for the soul of the deceased and the healing of the one remaining, for the young lady, the families, and all of you. I don't know if you recall but I think I've shared here that I lost a cousin to a possessive ex-boyfriend. It was when she had just graduated salutatorian of her class, in '67. I was only 5. Two young lives that didn't need to end. Such a waste. Such pain in the family.

Tatoulia, I wish you good progress with the coffee cups and kitty. I used to leave entire murky stinky sinkfuls of dishes for a terribly long time, and I am now converted to the "wash them as you use them" protocol. And it feels so good.

Tillie, I'll pray for your situation too. Sorry Steven is stonewalling - whether it's a huge blind spot or spitefulness or what, you have a right to your property and means of support. Is there any kind of legal aid available? If the situation isn't too complicated - which maybe it is. I've been there with the foreclosure and Mom's estate and people would say call legal aid but I had and they didn't do probate and such. Anyway, I just wish the tide would turn for you.

Well, I better go have my snack and medicine, and get started on kitty and bunny evening routines.

Hi Tatoulia
So true about taking a community to help raise educated healthy well adjusted children.
Fortunately for me, the entire Sheriffs department was on my side backing me up and the parents had to allow me this access to their boys.

(((((HUGS))))) to you and BF for stepping up.

Awe, once new kitty comes around she will be an extra loving little companion for Mom.
The hardest ones to win over are always the most loyal.
Wild weasel biting Scooter sleeps snuggled up with me at night and allows me to handle him to wash and medicate his eyes.
Mutual trust.

Taking your Mom to a clean orderly home is really the best motivation for her.
Many people get motivated after spending time in a clear & clean place.

Hope you got your groceries.
Slow & steady will get that closet conquered. 😉

Hi Debbie
(((HUG)))

Well, I tried talking to him once again.
Went how it always goes.
I speak then wait for him to speak and all he does is sit and stare at me then asks me
"what do you want me to say?"
I tell him to speak his mind, explain his reasons to me, if he has any.
Nothing.....................
Crickets chirping.

anyways, I have the kitchen sink all scoured and shiney and will wash the few dishes at 2pm.

Ps the moldy coffee mugs are never more than four days old because I'm taking the dishes with me. But I need to get this down to NO days old.

Tillie, I'm sure your nerves are shot; you've been handled a great deal of worry upon worry upon worry, and it some of it could be solved with passwords and financial information. This is absolute madness. You've learned to live with a lot and this is a small thing to take a heap off of your shoulders. And I'm pretty incensed that the roof has not been fixed.

I love the gun safety story. You know, it takes a community to raise a child. We work with our kids here to help fill in the gaps. I tell them I'm proud of them. Sometimes their parents are too frazzled. Some of these kids have grown up very nicely and some are struggling. And while we won't fall for the stuff their mother's will, we are loving and kind. I once, long ago, heard my BF tell some kid, I'm not like your mother. I can see you when you do bad things. So we fill in the gaps.

Cm I'm pleased you stayed at the community seeing place and worked on your sewing! Cannot wait to see you post pictures of the clothes!

Debbie Hello! What is going on? SubC the dinner party sounds like fun!

I've been both busy and exhausted this week. New kitty still hides a lot but my mother is seeing her more and more. When I go over I pull the little one out of wherever she's sleeping and I hold her and pet her. She's so thin but she's a good little eater. Mom is seeing her a little more during the day.

I swore I was only going to take care of myself today (which includes my closet) and so far I've visited BF (always charming) then I went to mom's with her clean comforter, I did some kitchen cleaning there (her place is just so filthy and I wish she'd let me throw some stuff out) and I brought her dishes back here to wash. She has coffee, then she puts silverware in the coffee cup, then it molds, then she adds water, then she spills the cups on the counters, etc. gives me the absolute willies to be there. I know some is age-related and vision-related and exhaustion-related so I don't say anything. But honest to God the amount of stuff in her apartment makes me buggy. But still there's less than there was before. We are going to my friend's house to do some baking at the end of September. Last time we went to her house (also was our first time being there), her place was so neat and so clean and so well organized that mom came home and allowed me to get rid of some things for her. We shall do this again.

Ok I'm running a laundry (swore I wouldn't do any today) and I'm going to have to go groceries. Just for me. I'm out of everything and I can't even cook a meal for myself tonight. So I'll shop for me alone. Then I'll come back here, put on the tunes and turtle my way through the closet.

Dear Subc, I cannot express how sorry I was to read of your friends son! I don't know how people live through things that are so tragic. Being young can hurt so badly! And it is hard to see that things might improve when you are young and depressed. I don't know what to pray for even. Please take care of yourself and your friend the best way you can. We love you!

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Subclinical
How exciting possibly having a booth next month!
Do you have enough ready or near enough ready to fill it?
Will you be having a pottery marathon to prepare?

YEA! for new socks and right before the weather changes to chilly!
So glad you had the donut. I have been resisting donuts and all their wonderful goodness.

That party sounds nice, hoping that you do attend.

After an incident here where I rendered 1st aid to a young boy accidently shot in the hand by his friend, the boys came to me to try to make it up to me.
My demand was that they were to both take the hunter safety course and were to get 100% on the tests, I would accept 98% as long as they reviewed the questions with me.
I also personally insisted on giving safety lessons and also had them on the shooting range with knowledgeable no nonsense instructors.
Educating the boys was the only way I could keep them safe.
Their patents weren't teaching them like I was taught and like I taught my own son.
The boys both did very well and showed me their heartfelt gratitude.

Hi CriticalMass
Happy you had a good week. 😀

Wonderful that you went to that sewing group!
Proud of you for staying and sewing even with your friend not there.
Really hope you do that again.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUNNY!!!

Yes, this new storm is one to be wary of.
My fingers are crossed for all in it's way.

Hi Tatoulia
How is the new kitty?
What's been happening in your neck of the woods.

According to "Dr. Google" I am having a nervous break down.
Wish there was some agency locally here to help me.
He just keeps giving me lip service about the financial matters and why the roof repairs have not been done.
He has not done anything to improve the hoard of squalor all around here and has just been making it worse.
He just is flippant and dismissive of all my inquires.
I am so all alone...

There were two kids involved. My friend's son is alive. The other boy is dead. They were close in age, but only my friend's son was old enough to buy the gun. They both intended to die. But watching someone die of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head shakes your resolve. So my friend's son called 911 instead of shooting himself. He is being charged with everything they can think of including murder and sex offenses. His mother is praying they will plea bargain down to assisted suicide and providing firearms to a minor.

We have guns. Guns are tools. Dangerous tools. My 17 y.o. had to take driver's ed and practice under supervision for six months before getting her license. She had to take a test and have her vision checked before she got her learner's permit. But somehow a year later is old enough to buy a firearm with no waiting period and a background check that doesn't include juvenile records, training or references of any kind, or mental health information?

We went to the market, which was fun and distracting. I talked to the woman in charge about having a booth next month.

I also got a donut, a new pair of socks, a wooden flower centerpiece as a gift for ddil when we go to visit next month, soup for lunch, and some vegetables.

SubC,

We are your friends. We are here for you, through thick and thin.

I am reeling from reading your post. I am absolutely reeling. This is a terrible event for so many people. No one is coming out unscathed.

You need to support your friend by listening and reassuring him/her that this is not a reflection on parenting. This had a number of difficult things coming in at once. Being a teenager (the absolute worst), unrequited love (difficult to breathe), depression (can be a lifelong struggle), guns (which have their place, to be sure, but not as playthings-hunting, collecting, studying, protection, shooting ranges, etc the list goes on), and probably an argument or two. Your job now is to support your friend. Listen, hug, cry, tell the fishy story. From what I gather, the girl is alive but the other boy is dead? Terrible all around. I am so sorry. Drop by for tea, drop off a casserole. Just let the parents know you feel their pain and they are not alone.
Sending you much love. I am just reading this now.

I am so sorry. I am just so sorry.

CM, good for you on going to the sewing! And staying! I might have panicked and left.

Also good on the books. I did not go near the books at the rummage sale. I am not that strong yet.

I hope things go smoothly for you cousins.

Yesterday I put away laundry.

I also called ❤️Dd. I want to talk to her about it, but she has a new job and I don't know her hours yet and she was at work. She sounded so happy! The new job is a really good change for her. And I just wanted to enjoy her being happy, so I didn't say anything. We just talked about the job for a few minutes and made plans for Monday. She also invited me to a small dinner party at her house next week. I am thinking about it. Dh says go. It would be a big deal for me, but it is a "safe" setting, and there will be a former coworker there whom I really like, and the party has a theme for discussion that I am very invested in, so small talk would not be a problem, and she doesn't expect me to get into a heated disagreement with anyone or she would not have invited me....

Also, you may remember the giant clean-out of her house that we did? I haven't been over for a while. I said "you have space for a dinner party?!" And she replied "I have space for a dinner party." She sounded very proud.

I think I am pretty much cried out for now. My friend knows I am here.

My new vacuum is here and I like it.

Dh and I might go out to the last Saturday market and get donuts today. And I plan to get serious about my lesson plans. I need the first week locked down.

SubC, so sorry... it's okay to talk of painful things. We've all been through them in one form or the other. Young people can't see far enough into the future and their prefrontal cortexes aren't fully developed to make better decisions. There are no words adequate really, but sending my love.

My week has been a miscellaneous one, in a good way. My friend who was my previous rommate had vacation and we went out for Chinese buffet lunch on Wednesday. It was good. One of the few ways I enjoy eating vegetables - beef broccoli, yum.

Yesterday she and I went to the library sale. We didn't think we'd either of us buy much. It was a bag sale - and she bought most of the contents of the bag! I got two books that were just duplicates in better shape of books I had, so one in one out with those.

I got a book by Pope Francis and a Bible guide, both modest in thickness. And a large book and a smaller, square fat book on glass painting. I have some glass paints; this should motivate me to get them out. Many of the designs would also work for quilting. I may trade the small fat book after I copy the designs I like. The big one has techniques and materials info and is a keeper. So I didn't do too badly.

There was a big storm here last night with strong winds. Early on, a limb about 3" thick and 10 or more feet long fell right by the outside corner of my bedroom. My roommate heard the thud - I just heard the general chaos of the wind and hurried out to pull my van up in the driveway in case of street flooding. It looked like a hurricane outside. Luckily the branch didn't damage the corner of the roof and gutter where part of it stuck and we lifted it carefully away. I'll chop it up.

Today I went to that sewing place - but I hadn't got round to texting my acquaintance from quilting, and she wasn't there. Awkward - but the ladies were nice and let me stay, so I got more of the Barbie clothes done. Only a bit more and I'll be ready to give them to my cousin's girl.

Keeping a watch on Hurricane Dorian reports because of my other cousins in Florida, the ones with the son with cancer. He always has checkup scans in NYC in September, and there is concern over why he has a fractured vertebra. How nerve wracking - I hope they are still able to fly out at the right time.

Tatoulia, how is new kitty girl? That's good if she seems to be getting past the pain. Spoil her with some rich food to build her up! I've been spayed, and it is draining - and I didn't just give birth to kittens beforehand.

My bunny son is now 7 (estimated birthday). How time flies. He wasn't a year old when I adopted him, and so impish. He's more Joe Bunny Sixpack these days, easy to picture him in a Barcalounger with a remote. But always my boy! He and I and the others will have a carrot party. My roommate is going out of town, but she can give him a hug in the morning.

Tillie, I'm being bad right now staying up too late on this tablet! And my sleep has been awful lately. So I better call it a night, or early morning technically.

oh well.....

Good Afternoon Everybody

I got some things dusted.
Trees got watered.
Will water the lilacs this evening once it cools off a little.

Scooter is bored and lonely.
Twinkles is bored and lonely.
They let me know often.

Good Morning Everyone

Hi Subclinical
Here, NOTHING is really off topic.
This is a place to share what is going on in all our lives.
Not just the good things and the the cleaning out and cleaning up.
The sad and disappointing things color our entire world and we want to know the struggles we are each dealing with along with the mundane daily challenges.

Of course your new schedule is all out of whack.
Of course you are going to be in a place of deep reflection, distracted and melancholic.

We all "get" it.
We all have experienced such tragedies before and sympathize.

We are all here to support you through the hard times and to cheer for you during the good times.

Please accept my condolences and (((((HUGS)))))

Hi Tatoulia
Hoping today you are well rested and no longer overwrought.
(((HUG)))

Have the hose set out slowly watering the trees today.
A bug bit me on my finger and it itches, probably a mosquito.
Plan to take it easy today with just doing a little dusting.

I did not mean to silence the conversation.

That was off topic and hard to respond to.

Just carry on.

What are the bunnies doing? What's for lunch? Did anybody clear out a space or resist a purchase?

I'm sorry, there is no delete button, but skip ahead.

8:30 pm.

I didn't make the cheese yesterday.

I worked on lesson plans and ran all my errands (I found another keurig thingy at the thrift shop!)

And on the way home I stopped at a bug church rummage sale - in the old fashioned sense of rummage - boxes if stuff partly unpacked and roughly sorted, gather up what you want and go make a deal with the lady in charge.

I have to confess I had a lot of fun searching for treasures. But I didn't find as many as I would have once. A less than full plastic grocery bag. And besides two more wire shelf stackers for my studio, everything was for my classroom.

Cooked some chicken breasts to cut up and freeze for salads for dh. Put away laundry. Picked beans and tomatoes, and cooked dinner.

Then I forgot to set up my coffee, and this morning I am not practicing my routine and I am tired.

I got to bed late. My friend's son did something horrible. Because he was in love and suffers from depression and because we let people buy guns when we don't let them buy beer. Maybe if we let them buy beer instead he and his "friend" (the newspaper called them "friends") would have gotten drunk and slept it off, and they would both still be alive and no one would be going to jail.

I have this endless loop in my head of the day I met him. He put his little felt fish in my coffee and gleefully cried out "fishy swim!" My brain keeps saying "how did this happen? Five minutes ago he was two years old and put a fish in my coffee."

I tell my teenagers over and over, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, not a romance.

SubC I am so proud of you! Your classroom is ready, you have a great plan for limiting computer time (AM or PM?) had your house is noticeably in much better shape!

Tillie that is a lot of deep cleaning you did today. I bet your shower will feel great!

I am just out of the shower myself. Stayed late at work then ambled around. I ran into a neighbor of my mom's and is just punched up groceries for mom so she offered to take up to her. I had picked up two coffee cakes for work tmr so I gave one to her to split with my mom.

I'm tired. And a bit overwrought.

Good Afternoon Everyone

Well...
Bathroom is all squeaky clean.
Also washed under bathroom sink and kitchen sink.
Also washed the area by the bathroom door & back door where the water heater and litter box are & washed the floor there.
Wiped down so many areas and washed the kitchen floor and bathroom floor.
Used a dowel rod and a rag to clean way back under the washing machine that lives in the bathroom.
Doing that I found the cloth mousie finger puppet that has been missing for ages.
YEA!!!
Washed it and it is back in play.
Right now the plastic shower curtain and some rags are soaking in the washer.
Washed my broom, dust pan and kitchen trash can.

I would no longer be mortified if someone were to come by for a visit. 🙂

Looking forward to my evening shower.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Subclinical
I like your new routines/schedules for time management.
"They" say that the light of computer screens late into the night messes up our natural sleep/wake rhythms.

Of course your home is in better shape this time.
You worked very hard this Summer, spent a lot of hours working bringing more order to it.
All that hard work will pay off with your new busier work schedule.

WAY TO GO!!! for the classroom being all ready for first day!!!

Have fun in the big town, good luck getting all you need and wishing you safe driving conditions.

So far my only plan for today is to clean the bathroom.
But sometimes that's harder than it sounds because Steven keeps "needing" to get in there and I have to stand there waiting for him to get out before I can continue. >:P

Good morning!

I am working on my school year structure - no computer after 8:30 unless essential for work, and today I am practicing my morning routine (which means this will be short.)

Tillie, that was smart bout the heater.

Tatoulia, I think it is good that you are raking time to spend with the new little one.

I look forward to hearing about your closet.

I did not drop anything off yesterday except trash.

But, my classroom is completely ready even down to materials set out on tables. My first lesson will involve introduction of some of our new tools.

My house is more in order than it was when school started last year.

I swam yesterday and traffic was horrible and it took me two hours to get home. (Accident shut the highway down)

Today I need to drive to the next big town away from the city and buy some goat medications. I'll go to the feed store, their grocery, and maybe a thrift store while i'm out. I discovered that the Keurig carousel is perfect for holding my little pots of glaze in my classroom. I need 2 more.

Also lesson plans and more stuff around the house. My ten minutes is up! See you later.

Good Evening Everybody

Hi Tatoulia
I suppose her hysterectomy is more involved since she is mature and also had kittens.
Not like a three month old virgin kitten who rebounds quickly.

We had a few tiny sprinkles at sundown with lots of lightning and thunder and blowing winds.
I actually got two sprinkles on my skin! 😀

WTG! for keeping up on housework.
Doing a few little tasks as they arise really makes a difference overall.

OK, so we are going back into that closet.
You did such a lovely job on the linen closet getting it all organized.
You might want to break it down into smaller bites.
Maybe one section of the closet at a time.
Like, what do you want stored on the floor?
What do you want to keep on the shelf if there is room there with the dishes you have stored there already?
If thinking about the whole closet is too overwhelming break it down into smaller bites.

I like that you are thinking of what you can do to make yourself happier. 🙂

It's been nice here too sleeping with the window open, the ceiling fan on and a nice blanket.
Then pulling up the other blanket around 3am.

Hello, hello. Busy day today. I was working from home but so busy. I made it up to mom's twice today. Working on socializing the little one. She is much less swollen and she seems to be feeling a bit better.

I met friends for dinner tonight and I was grateful for that. Just a little bar that serves Italian food. Then I walked the malls. It's been raining here since about five but it's a tad humid. Sunday Monday and Tuesday felt like fall. I was sleeping with windows open, ceiling fan on and extra blanket. So nice.

Cm that is an answered prayer! I love the idea of the friendship and sewing. Terrific news!

Tillie you are so smart about disinfecting the heater. You have a marvelous mind. SubC, Tess and Debbie, a big hello!

I have not been focused on my home but I've been keeping it up fairly well. I vacuumed the cat hair from the sofa two days ago before putting a clean cloth down. I need to make this weekend about my dining room closet. I just do. There's plenty I can do to make it more usable. And I'll be happier.

I think I need to ask myself, how can I make myself happier over the Labor Day weekend. What changes in my house will increase my happiness?

Hello

Swept and vacuumed this morning.

Was trying to figure out how to disinfect the inside of that Edenpur space heater since I can't disassemble it.

Finally decided that I could use an empty Febreze spray bottle since it sprays a mist.
Filled it with a mixture of 50% bleach and 50% water.
Sprayed into every opening.

Since it is an electric appliance, spraying it should be alright because it will be all thoroughly dry long before I want to use it.

It is important that I disinfect the heater and all the areas where nasty mouse may have traveled.
There is Hantavirus near here.
Nasty mouse is a Deer Mouse variety known to carry the virus.
A man not 100 miles away died from Hantavirus and I live extremely close to Yosemite where they have had people get infected.
Some were just sick and some even died.

Good Morning Everybody

WTG! Subclinical on your 40 hour challenge!

Beautiful quiet cool morning here.
Wildfire smoke is continuing to stay thin and not overwhelming this past week.
Really need to wash the windows and window screens but I have been physically unable to.
When the weather is cooler I can take more time and wash them slower, not having to hurry to get it done before it's too hot out.

CM,

The sewing thing sounds wonderful! Always a clear space to work, and you have to clean up when you are done. Maybe there will be another quilter and you can swap some fabrics - lighten your stash and get new stuff that you want to use in the moment.

Great job on reducing the storage area! Keep on turtling on! A little at a time is all it takes. I have been doing a 40 hour challenge in my studio. Some days I only do ten minutes, but I am up to 31 hours and the studio looks a lot better! Most of the stuff I haven't gotten to yet is in one area that dh actually referred to as "the incredible shrinking pile" (I do still have some drawers and cupboards I haven't addressed)

It's wonderful that you no longer feel pulled to shop!