omg, guys, I can't believe how long I've been mia.... I was so involved in getting things decluttered and focus on what needs to get done, and then my thread notification somehow started getting delivered in my spam folder, so I missed you guy's posts until I discovered today that it was in the spam folder....
Rachel, I am sorry for the difficulty you are going through with your mom. Mental illness is in my family line and I have had to deal with some form of it from four different members of my family at different times in my growing up as well, so I understand when you say you didn't know how to handle it. No one knew and no one was about to take the effort to educate us and help us with it... I am glad you are able to process your way through it now though. I hope your mom gets better, it is very sweet how you made her care packages and cards and called her every day. Very caring of you!
Congrats on your walk on the wall! I have to be honest, I can't get my head around what that looks like... LOL!
Kim, nice work on your running time and the overall workouts you have done, you are sounding like an energizer bunny to me!
Since we last talked, I have pulled down every single storage box in our garage, gone through all of them, tossed a ton, donated a ton, took about 300 books to the library (books that I and dh had accumulated over the years....
) then used the now empty boxes to start packing up things that I won't be needing for a while, like most of my office stuff, cleaned out ds' room, packed up his bookshelf, cleaned out dd's room, didn't pack up her shelf for lack of boxes, cleaned out my closet, cleaned out my under the sink cabinets, .... it's been crazy and so nice at the same time to be cleaning so much.
It has helped me deal with the stress, which surprised me, I had all this tension in my neck and shoulders, not getting better and once I started doing all this sorting etc, all of a sudden my tension went away!
Dh picked up more boxes today, so I will keep packing up things, like albums, a bookshelf in the bedroom, stuff like that....
We have also been looking at homes. There is one home that looks fantastic on the pics, realtor is taking a video tour for us tomorrow to see if it's as nice as it looks on the pics (all the bedrooms were left out
) If the rest of the house is as nice as the main floor, which has a library, then it might be our number one choice. Although there is a big balcony and a huge deck with a gazebo and if that is in bad shape it might need to be redone, and I don't know how much that would cost... so, not sure if we are going to want to take that on or not.
There is another one really nice one with wonderful storage and such, that looks pretty much move in ready. It's in a very elegant neighborhood, so a lot more pricey...
I'm telling you guys, I am in some odd kind of mode, sleeping about 4 hrs less, thinking, thinking thinking.... up early, getting more stuff done.
I am also in the process of emptying out all the stored food that has accumulated. So I had this bag of teff and didn't know what the heck to do with it. So I was online checking out recipes, so now we are having teff burgers for dinner tonight... I had a lot of flour to use up too, whole wheat, qinoa, amaranth, etc, so I made a double batch of blueberry muffins, and a double batch of dried fruit bread (dried fruit to use up too, soaked in rum, since I had that sitting in the cabinet forever as well
) and believe it or not, even with the two double batches, I still have flour left! Why on earth do I collect all this stuff! LOL
Now comes the bummer part. I was doing so well with my eating, but now I am totally stress eating!
I'm hoping things will calm down in my head soon so I can get back on track!
I forgot to mention, I think if we were to get the house ready for sale we would have to repaint everything and recarpet everything, that's the minimum. I have kept a good upkeep of the carpets, shampooing them and spot treating them as necessary, but still, they are 15yrs old... I know I wouldn't want to move into a house with lived in carpets. But dh just told our neighbor who is a single guy that loves to do projects that we were getting ready to move and he said to let him know when it's listed, because he was thinking about making an investment. I told dh to ask him if he wants it as is and fix it up himself. That would sure make for a fast sell....
I am so sorry to dump this all on you guys! I should have warned you to get a cup of coffee before attempting to read all this!
