to clarify on last post:
last week to fill the huge garbage can, switched out tomorrow
go out and paint some boards or a ceiling, not paint the town

Tillie, so happy to hear how good you are feeling, you have really put in the work to feel so good!!!
This morning I did dishes, vacuumed, straightened up, spoke to boss on phone, changed back to smaller garbage can, called to get city bill in paper form, too hard to download statement and newsletter. A beautiful day here too, and I get to stay home until 5:45 today, so happy to have all day to fill the last week.
Tillie, remember I asked you for support with a personal issue, phone call. Well took a month but tonight I am going to dinner with person I spoke to you about. Yes, I am a nervous wreck, first dinner outing in a few years I think. Think I will go out and paint something, my stress relief.

I had yet another all-nighter for no particularly good reason, took out trash, crashed early, up early. Hoping to (finally) talk to someone today about landlord-tenant issues, though I'm not very hopeful about my options.

Employer acknowledged my invoice and is sending a check, and says we can talk about more work, but they'll expect me to be more responsive in the future. That's better than the "Go away, loser" response I was half-expecting.

Good morning everybody :)

Another beautiful Autumn day here in northern Nevada. Will be in the 70s again today.
But change is in the forecast for next week.

I have a great feeling of accomplishment for all I got done this week. :D

My plans are to kick back and enjoy the rest of this week.

Mr Hoarder has today through Sunday off from work.
Today is his furlough day, tomorrow is the official state holiday for Nevada.
October 31st. is the anniversary of when Nevada became a state.
So, he has plenty of free time to do stuff around here. lol

Of course I will take care of the cat's needs, tidy up as needed here and not neglect any messes.

Have a GREAT day whatever you need to accomplish.

(((hugs)))

Thanks Ali :D

Ding Dong Tillie's Tree is Gone.
Hip, Hip, Hooray!

I felt good vibrations this afternoon. Must have been Tillie's Happy Dance with foot stomping & hands high in the air.

Thanks Karl :)

Hi Diane :)
Sorry to hear about that. :(

I have a big mess of firewood in my yard. :D
"HE" is out there now starting the clean up.
Scooter loved sitting on the window sill watching the tree guys cut down the tree.
Soon as they left, all the cats were out there checking things out.

Cory's other chat test site for us

On the log in it asks for a name and also a password.
Ignore the password and just type in your name and enter.

Got the fridge all clean & shiney and did 5 loads of laundry.
I am tired and need a shower. It was a GREAT day! :D

Tillie I am so excited about your tree and your happiness today.
Right when I was celebrating how well work is going, I lost the money bag. Yesterday spent hours looking through house, garage and car, did not find. I really think I left car unlocked and it was lifted. I feel responsible and will replace the money, have made peace with it, at first I was ticked at losing it, felt guilty I am not more organized. It is done and need to move on. Good thing, made me organize some areas of house and car that became messy, just be happy about that.
Another beautiful day here, too bad have to work, good I will work and make up for money I lost!!! This morning will do dishes, did laundry yesterday, bring firewood in this morning.

Nice article. I need to internalize more of that -- I'm still clinging to several of those myths.

Good morning everybody! :D

Wednesday.
Today's the big day!
I was wide awake at 4:00am so I decided to just get up.
Going to be another lovely day here in northern Nevada. Temps in the 70s.

I am sooooo looking forward to watching the men cut down that tree! :D

Also planning to do some laundry.
Will be taking everything out of the fridge and washing the whole thing, including the freezer compartment.

Wishing everybody a HAPPY DANCE kind of day. :D

Good morning :)

Karl, good luck saving all your emails. :)

Another lovely day here. Going to be in the 70s again. :D
My To-Dos for today...
Yesterday I sprayed the oven with oven cleaner so today I will wipe that all out.
Have the stove rings soaking.
Will lift up the stove top and wipe under there too.
Also planning to clean the range hood.
Took the oven racks and broiler pan outside yesterday and sprayed them with oven cleaner & will get those all shiney today too.

I don't cook a lot of meat and very rarely fry anything so this isn't a very dirty job but it does need to be done at least every year to keep it from becoming a hard dirty job.

Also need to water some stuff out in the yard.
I don't water after it gets cold and stays cold every day but with this nice warm Autumn weather I will keep watering once a week.

Tomorrow the tree is scheduled to come down! :D

I am so excited!

Hope all your plans go smoothly today. ;)

I've sent the invoice to my employer, and asked whether they still want me to work. I hope the answer is yes, but it wouldn't surprise me if they've decided I'm not reliable.

I just learned that my email provider is shutting down at the end of this month. I hope they provide a way to do a bulk download of the messages I was saving.

Plan for Tuesday: cash in some bottles/cans at the recycling center; also, contact Sentinel and see if they have any useful info for me.

Hi Dianne :)

WAY TO GO! on getting things done! :D

It takes a while to get used to the changes and the newly opened up spaces.
Your usual routines get all changed, items are not where they used to always be.

On important things that I need to remember I write notes to myself and line them up on the counter or coffee table where they will be seen all the time.
After I have taken care of whatever needed doing I love tearing up the note and tossing it. :D

(((hugs))) Diane. :)

Doing a HAPPY DANCE here too. :D

good morning all, I already did the dishes that I didn't finish last night
Morning Tillie, good reading your post, sounds like you are feeling good today, so am I
Woke up too early but so excited about the sunshine, feel good
Thanks Tillie for the chat last night, especially the extra help with Molly and my denial. You are so comforting
I am going out and spend some time outside before going to work, happy I don't have any early morning work days this week
It is still 31 out, so a bit chilly, the sun on the colored leaves is so beautiful this morning
Just remembered I am supposed to have fun today, ok, saying goodbye now and will get up and do a
"happy dance"in honor of tillie, good no one can see me in here
!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great day everyone

Good morning :)

Hi Diane :)
Have a great week at work! :D

Hi Karl :)
Thanks for helping me try to figure out what is wrong with the chatroom. :D

Hi Dianne :)
So true about horses. Very smart but I think they think they are small as kitty cats. lol :D
The quail are always here, fewer now since there was recently bird hunting season.
The Robins have all moved back into the area and are establishing their territories.
Poor babies will miss that big tree after Wednesday, but too bad. HaHa :D

Cory is having the chatroom issues looked into today.
YEA! WTG! Cory :D

Today I will be cleaning the house.
Bathroom, floors, vacuuming and LOTS of sweeping the porches and walkways because of all the leaves covering them.
I don't mind sweeping dry leaves but hate to do it when the leaves are wet.
Today they are dry. :D

This week the neighbors are having new carpet installed through out their house.
So they are busy packing up everything and moving all their furniture out of the house.
That is a LOT of work, fortunately they are not hoarders so this is do-able for them.

Lots of nice big changes happening this week on our road. :D

Hi and good morning to all you who read and didn't post here lately! :D

Thanks Dianne, I agree, all the work I did to improve my living situation, did make work more fun, think I feel less shame, so just feel happier. Today I was outside all day, raked and burned some leaves. Scraped the length of the garage roof edge, that has looked like crap for years, painted it, it looks so much better. My neighbor who lives above me, came out and appreciated the new look. Chopped kindling, raked leaves in back yard as well as front. Not sure what else I did, but worked alllll day, now have to deal with the dishes etc in here, no fun for me. hope all had good weekends

My To-Do for today is to run all sorts of programs on my computer to try to get a handle on the chatroom problem.

Hope to see you all in chat tonight! :D

The smart horse stories reminded me of how my brother and I, as toddlers, could escape from the playpen by working together.

Hello everyone, so happy the tree is going away tillie. that is tough to be around a screamer, I used to be one, happy I don't yell anymore, it felt so out of control to yell, sorry you have to be at the same with a screamer.
Dianne, sounds like you had a great time.
I worked this week and next week will be the last week, will miss it, and will be happy I am done. I have had a good time, enjoyed it more this year than in previous years. Yesterday I went to a fund raiser rummage sale for troubled teens. Yep, bought some junk that were for "future craft projects", on the way to work. When I got home and had to haul the stuff in, it was obvious I bought the stuff for a reward for having to work when it was such great weather, and wanted to stay home. Today I had to deal with the stuff, very clear that I have no business bringing stuff home until I finish cleaning stuff out. Really don't want to be the person I was, want to get back on track and finish cleaning stuff out and start doing craft projects.
Today I stained several fence boards. This morning worked in bedroom 2 hours sorting stuff, went through several boxes of jewelry, and scarves. Can see progress. Watched show on OPB on replacing kitchen faucet, has leaked for 2 years, I have the new faucet, just haven't tackled it yet. Think I will wait until finish working next week, need tomorrow to have fun outside. Love the sunshine. see you in chat tomorrow

We all need fun time.
We need to get out and away from all the To-Do chores regularly.
This refreshes us physically and mentally.
This is called "Real Life" and we all need this time.
We are all so much more than the clutter and messes.
We are real people and need to experience real life pleasures.
Sure, the home work is very important and doing it without the help of a company takes a long time.
Try to remember to find time to live in the moment. ;)

Dianne,
I am so very very happy to hear how well Jakey is doing.
That is really wonderful news.


I had a horse that lived right next to me that could open the latches and would hold the gate for all the other horses to get out.
I put the horses all back, latched the gate and tied a rope around it.
He used his teeth and picked the knots out of the rope and opened the latch, letting out all the horses.
So then I took a piece of bailing wire and started to bind the gate shut.
The horse saw what I was doing and tried his best to crowd me away from the gate. :D
The wire did the trick and there was no more horse round ups.

Good morning :)

Cats have been fed.
He has gone off to get his hair cut.
We might go to the grocery store today.
Other than that I have no idea what I will be doing today.
Looks like another lovely day here weatherwise.
Hoping he will get his stuff all moved out of the way for the tree guys by tomorrow.

Have some fun today no matter what else you are doing. :D

Hey Dianne,
Yeah Matt and Cory are constantly jumping around, running through the house, and goofing off. They used to have this really bad habit of slamming into the bathroom door while I'm taking a shower. So now I just leave the bathroom door open, whenever I take a shower, so they can't do that anymore. But now, what they like to do is, sneak into the bathroom and walk into the tub while I'm taking a shower. LOL. :D

Good morning everybody :)

Looks like it is going to be another lovely Fall day here in northern Nevada.

Hi Diane :)
WOW! chopping wood and chimney cleaning!
WAY TO GO!

Hi MayMay :)

Hi Roxie :)
Hope you are having a blast at your reunion. :D

Hi Dianne :)
So wonderful that you had all that electrical work done!
Happy that the electrician is a big time dog lover too. ;)

Hi to Karl and Diane and everybody else too. :D

I've been just laying low here.
Been sleep deprived, nervous and depressed.
Hate fighting, always have. But it is the only way to get anything accomplished around here.
He loves to verbally fight with everybody.
The power company, phone company, insurance company, bank, trash service, people at his work place, store cashiers, our rural letter carrier and post office. Just to name a few.
At home he stands in the room I am in and rants and raves about all these people and companies.
No matter how many times I tell him that I don't want to hear about it any more he just won't quit.
Until last night.....
I told him to stop. Just stop it.
He flew off the handle, like he always does, had a huge melt down. Very angry at me, slamming doors, screaming, etc.
And an hour later he did something he never did before.
He came out of his room and said "I'm sorry"
He spoke in a normal tone.
Tried to say things to make it better.
I am still in shock.

Anyways, the tree guy just called me and said he will be here about 8:00am Wednesday morning to get that tree down for me. :D

My To-Dos for today...
wash my hair
clean the kitchen
do cat related tasks
sweep floor & porches (lots of fallen leaves)
a quick vacuuming of the main carpet areas.
swish & swipe the bathroom

Hope you all have a GREAT Friday. :)

Hi Dianne,
WOW! That's a lot of German Shepherds! :)

Hi everyone! :)

Hey Roxie,
Have fun at your reunion. :)

Thanks Dianne! :)

Hey Tillie,
I'm glad you're feeling better. :)

My headache is lessening and I will sleep very well tonight.
The tree guy came by this afternoon.
We settled on 400.00 to take the huge dangerous tree down.
He said he was busy all this week but plans to stick me in sometime next week. He will call to let me know when he will be here.
My hoarder came home just as we were finishing up talking.
With this peer pressure on him now, he will get all his stuff out of the way over the next few days.
I already have someone lined up to come get all the wood. We agreed on 100.00 for the wood.
HAPPY DANCE! :D

Good morning! :D
WAY TO GO! everybody for taking care of business!!!

I am exhausted.
But maybe there is some good news.
He said that the tree guy will be here today sometime to look at the tree, give an estimate and schedule a day to remove it.
I am trying not to let my spirits get excited about this just in case he pulls the rug out from under me, like he has done so many times in the past.
I am so tired of having this damgerous tree hanging over my head, literally.

"Fight one battle at a time"

TTYL :D

Hi Dianne,
Great! My dress will definitely not be a typical wedding dress... I want the dress to be black with flames coming up from the bottom of it. I wish I could have a dress like the dress that Jennifer Lawerence wore in the first "Hunger Games" movie; the dress had real flames come out of it whenever she would twirl around in it. It was really cool. :)

worked at job in the morning an again in afternoon. In between work I cleaned the chimney, chopped kindling, fixed a few things, enjoyed working in the sunshine. Have an early morning start tomorrow. Happy to read what you gals had to say, thanks for posting.

Good morning everybody! :D
Great reading all your postings.
Don't really know what happened with yesterday. Never accomplished anything. Sort of was in a fog all day long.
Been expending all my energy on trying to get him working on this dangerous tree removal project.
Yesterday afternoon he actually looked under the hood of the vehicle that's parked right next to the tree.
Progress???
I dunno :(
Today I need to water some stuff in the yard.
Do some cleaning in the house too.
But first I have to feed the cats.
They are all staring at me as I type this.
TTYL :D

Turns out the motor home isn't such a good idea. I figured that would turn out to be the case.

I'll try to show up for at least the beginning of the Tuesday chat, but I'll probably have to leave soon after it starts.