Hello, here to check in. I've been absent a little while.

I broke down last night and emailed my therapist that I want to reopen the discussion about taking medication for my OCD. I'm still scared but I feel it might be time.

My best friend's mother passed away very suddenly so I've been out of town a lot seeing my friend. I'm back now though, and trying to get myself together. I cleaned up the kitchen a bit and threw in a load of laundry. Called the vet about a billing issue.

I want to try to isolate a couple other realistic things I can get done today. My overall list is pretty intimidating.

Good to see you all again 🙂

Good Morning Everybody! 😀
Still morning here in northern Nevada.

Hi Roxie 🙂 "clink"
Wish there were people I could have over often but he is such a mean, nasty, argumentative and negative person that people don't want to be around him very much. 🙁

Hi Jess 🙂
Great to hear from you! 😀
WAY TO GO!!! for getting started on the kitchen, laundry and that business phone call! 😀
Keeping your daily "To-Do" list simple, with tasks that you know you can achieve is a great way to go.
When there is a big task to tackle, try breaking the steps down into more easily accomplished pieces and doing it in nibbles.
Remember that baby steps will get it done. (((hugs)))

Got up at sunrise today and got outside.
Got my main flower/herb garden all weeded, thinned and sorted out.
Now I can easily see the plants! 😀
Hollyhocks started to bloom yesterday, a pale pink one and a red one. 🙂
Honeysuckle is completely loaded with blooms and it smells like heaven out there.
Have a bumper crop of cat mint(catnip) this year so had to pull a LOT of that out in spite of all the cats screaming "NO!!!!"

Special request....
There is a dog that I am very fond of.
Yesterday she was bitten on the face by a rattle snake.
She is being treated in the emergency veterinary clinic.
Please think good thoughts for Monkey. 🙁
Thank you.

Today,doing yard work. Had so much rain I have a jungle out there. Also cleaned crud from my stove grates & took garbage out from treasure hunt last night. Throwing it out was hard. Goal is to get a sorting table established. Feeling I have to re-do the room paint,carpet, hang new door. (I don't) Just the sorting table is enough. Hope all are doing well today :> My bonus will be to get one small surface cleaned off.

Hi People! 😀

Been enjoying the day today. 🙂
Did some gardening, did some cooking, cleaned the kitchen and gave myself a pedicure.
Soon, I will be going outside again to do some more gardening after it cools off a bit. 🙂

WAY TO GO!!!! SusanL! 😀
Thanks so much for this positive & uplifting update! 🙂

HI Oodles 🙂
FANTASTIC progress!, well done!, WAY TO GO! 😀
Hope you are feeling better real soon. (((hugs)))

4:45pm here now. It will be cool enough out there to pull some more weeds in the shady areas.
TTYL 🙂

Good morning, all. So glad to see some posters here ahead of me.

Tillie, hmm, you might consider inviting people more often if that is part of what lit a fuse under Mr. T. hehe I am wicked. Glad you are getting some time for yourself now.

Hello Everyone (You can do it!)
Me? Rough start today. Instead of working in my living space, I ventured to my daughters old bedroom. I threw a garbage bag full away. Then I got distracted. I went into the bathroom (she broke the toilet handle) I was able to get the toilet to flush. Do I go back and focus? No I start watching youtube videos on how to replace the toilet handle & the door. Also assess the costs to replace vinyl. Anxiety & distraction is huge. I only have the weekends. I worked 90 hours this week. I am ill and slept earlier. Up & trying to accomplish something.

Test - It appears my message posted twice?

Hmmm must have double-clicked did not do it in the test. Have a good evening everyone!

Hi everybody, glad to hear folks are making progress. I'm mostly done with downsizing except for a few boxes, living proof it can be done in one lifetime 🙂

Take care,
SusanL
Not to be confused with other Susans

Hello Everyone (You can do it!)
Me? Rough start today. Instead of working in my living space, I ventured to my daughters old bedroom. I threw a garbage bag full away. Then I got distracted. I went into the bathroom (she broke the toilet handle) I was able to get the toilet to flush. Do I go back and focus? No I start watching youtube videos on how to replace the toilet handle & the door. Also assess the costs to replace vinyl. Anxiety & distraction is huge. I only have the weekends. I worked 90 hours this week. I am ill and slept earlier. Up & trying to accomplish something.

Hi Roxie and everybody. I remember how concerned I felt when Roxie wasn't posting. And now I wonder what Dave is up to. I still read here often. So few people have any understanding of hoarding, ADD, OCD, or depression; especially when it is combined with aging and health issues. Reading how you all are doing helps me feel so not alone in my struggles. My progress? Infinitesimal. (yes, that's the right word but I had to stop and look up the spelling because it just didn't look right) a compulsion I guess. I am already side-tracked from paying bills today. only about 92 degrees and very humid. And get hotter thru at least Monday. .back to my bills O. today is my daughter's birthday. She is 49. impossible! life seems to go at the speed of light these days! (too many exclamation points!... Self-criticism.)

Today I've been thinking of each of you, but also the regular posters who actually haven't posted in awhile, like Diane. I miss them and wish they'd check in just to say hi.

Raining again today, blast. Hugs and clinks.

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY! 😀

Wishing you all a GREAT weekend! 😀 [/color

Good Morning Everybody! 🙂

Hi LR2014 🙂
Hope all your plans went smoothly and you got to have that wonderful feeling of "WTG! a job well done." 😀

Hi CM 🙂
WAY TO GO!!! for all your accomplishments! 😀
Hoping you do start swimming. That is one of the best exercises and feels good too. 😉

Hi Roxie 🙂 "clink!"
Your cabin sounds like heaven on earth! 😀

Was not home much yesterday.
Now that my services are no longer needed I am free to leave here for hours at a time. 🙂
Spent lots of time at neighbor friend's house that I am watching for them while they are away.
Filled their bird feeders, washed and refilled humming bird feeders and watered house plants (there are a lot).
Sorted out their mail, stuck it in a big envelope and took it to the post office.
While in town I made my rounds and reconnected with a few acquaintances.
The rains we had did a lot of flood damage to homes and businesses and roads & streets still have large lakes covering them.
After so many years of drought the ground has forgotten how to absorb moisture.
Today I am planning to attend a bizarre that the charity thrift shop that provides free food (no questions ever asked) to anyone in line is holding.
There will be booths set up featuring sellers of wonderful, unique and exotic products.
Sounds like fun. 😀
I am enjoying my newfound freedom.
He is still off work. The surgeon won't release him until the last bit of incision has healed properly.
Meanwhile, he has been sorting though his hoard, tossing ruined things and loading up the truck with items he has decided he can live without to donate.
The process has been slow with a lot of "micro sorting" of tiny objects like screws and nails.
But he gets a WAY TO GO! for what he has accomplished. 😀

Wishing you all a safe and fun weekend. (((hugs)))

CM, nice to hear you were able to deal with a lot of "loose ends." Tillie and Roxie, thanks as always for the encouragement.

I got things off yesterday to a fairly good start in terms of my original plans: got laundry done. It wasn't until I read the message board this morning that I even remembered about the 2nd and 3rd goals I'd listed for yesterday. (Definitely didn't do the paperwork goal yesterday.) I know that one thing I did do yesterday was look for certain needed and temporarily-missing items of clothing. Ack! Today, while I have some extra time and space to myself to do some sorting, I'm going through my clothes and trying to get them in some (better) type of order.

Tillie, I am so happy to hear that "he" is actually getting rid of things! It seems like a miracle! It's great to hear about a truck carrying items "out" instead of truckloads coming "in." Yea!

Hugs to everyone.

Hi all, sounds like we've been getting lots of things done - yay! 🙂

Yesterday I finally started tackling the bedroom I am staying in (having moved in with a friend during May - what a month that was!). If you've ever moved in a hurry, you know how it can get all piled and cluttered in the new place very quickly. I've felt guilty for not tackling it sooner. But I think it took me awhile to be mentally able to. Today I feel I can tackle the other side of the room and if I do that, I should be able to get things put away neatly and have FLOOR instead of a precarious PATH to walk on in there!

Tillie, I can relate to the "microsorting" - I do that, LOL! 😀 I guess we anxious hoarder types just have a need. With me, that part is the OCD, I suppose - and I can get so absorbed in the detail. It's satisfying in a way, too, once it's done. Too bad it takes a lot of time - if it didn't slow a person down so much when there's a huge amount of other stuff to go through. Folks like me need a time machine we can step into to do those projects and then come back out when done and not be behind on the rest of it! Ha ha!

Good morning. Roxie, I'm glad you had some pretty weather to enjoy yesterday. Iced tea clinks!

Tillie, thanks for the encouragement. I hope your hanging-out-the-clothes plan works and that you get more rain! Glad also that you yourself didn't have to make the drive to Reno this time!

Among my plans for the day today are (1) to work on laundry, (2) to spend at least 20 minutes on my bedroom area, and (3) to spend at least 20 minutes on organizing some paperwork.

Have a good day!

Good afternoon or evening everyone . . .

Several people here who like to sew - so do I! I was a bit disappointed that today I didn't get to sew with my girlfriends as we do most Thursdays. Maybe next week.

I did accomplish some tasks, though - appointment making, calling to cancel my old cell phone, etc. Those "loose ends" that I tend to procrastinate. So I'm glad about that.

Weather where I am has been beastly hot but is supposed to change to rainy by tomorrow or the next day. Summer is not my favorite season and with moving and all the stress I feel like I missed out on spring. But maybe now I can keep another resolution and start going to the gym again - I do love to swim especially. So that's a goal, I guess, to actually make it to the gym, remember the items I need to bring with me (I'm a forgetful sort, so this is a stress trigger), and then the next goal will be to make it a regular thing.

I got up at 5:40 and did my nebulizer, then went back to bed. Just got up again, did another neb, took my pills and recorded my vitals (they are fine).

Making coffee and it is almost ready. :::Clink:::

Tillie, I'm glad you got some sewing done! Can't say that I've played a lot, but I'll keep in mind that you've said to do so. I did just finish preparing a yummy pitcher of tea. It's not exactly "playing," but it is something I enjoy.

lex, it's nice to hear about a cleared off kitchen table!

I made a tiny bit of progress yesterday on my bedroom, but only a tiny bit. Much progress has been made on that "family home." I should have some extra-good news to report about that situation in a few weeks.

Hugs to all.

Good morning all. Coffee clink.

Hoping to hear from each of you.

Good Morning Everybody! 🙂

Hi LR2014 🙂
WAY TO GO!!!! 😀
Looking forward to reading your update on that family home.
And WTG! for even the tiny bit accomplished in your room. Remember those tiny bits add up!:D

Hi Roxie 🙂
Happy you enjoyed the lovely day, YEA!!! 😀
Nice change, accompanying Brother to his appointment this time. 🙂
Tea "clink!"

Yesterday was hot and stifling muggy here.
Then last night a thunderstorm rolled in.
Was wonderful laying in bed listening to the falling rain and thunder and watching the lightning flashes.
During the night we got almost a whole inch of rainfall!!! 😀
More thunderstorms are predicted for today so to encourage them I have the clothes line all hung with freshly washed linens. 😉
Happy now that I did not wash the windows last week.
Today he is off to his doctor appointment in Reno. I stayed home.

🙂

Hello everyone, hugs and hope everyone is well.
Tillie that is awesome! I love to sew 🙂
LR glad you got your car back and way to go on vaccuming!
I just finished cleaning off the kitchen table, I can actually see it now!! Also got some sweeping done. Now time to go to work sadly.
Have a great day everyone!!

HI! Everyone 🙂

WAY TO GO!!!! Lex for cleaning off the table! 😀

Spent today doing his laundry and sewing.
So far I have finished four different sewing projects I had to put off since March.
Have one more project to finish then I can start on starting new sewing projects.
I have the fabric and patterns already for making a few dresses and night gowns. 😀
But tomorrow I have to wash dishes and should do some other things around here.
I hate always having to be the "grown up" cause I just want to play all day. 😀

Hope you all had time to play today. 🙂

You mean we can actually prevent problems before they get started, Tillie? What a concept!!

Yes, my vehicle is doing just fine now. I was able to use it to go out of town yesterday for a (happy) family event. And yes, I did finally get some good rest. Thanks for the well wishes.

Just got finished doing some vacuuming in one room and am getting ready to do some vacuuming and straightening up in my bedroom. I will probably also manage to squeeze in a little bit of fun this evening.

Hugs to everyone.

Good Morning Everybody! 🙂

TTYL 😀