Thanks for the nice feedback!

Yesterday was a great day.

So many spider carcasses, though🕷️🕸️- plus a few live 8-leggers scuttling around. 😱 It's nice to think that I'm making fewer places for them to hide now. I have cleaning supplies over in the storage so there's a broom to get the webs and dust and leaves that blow in, etc.

I truly believe I am experiencing a combination of a mental shift and divine inspiration going on here. I'm rather blown away, actually.

All I have to do is show up and cooperate with it.

There will be harder things - it's one thing to yank out a chair that takes up about 4 cubic feet. It may be way harder to deal with 4 small stuffed animals or 4 greeting cards. And to do it over and over until all the cubic feet of that sort of thing is dealt with and most of it gone.

All such things I will face eventually. And I remember I've gone through and gotten rid of lots of boxes and bags of papers already in this effort since whenever.

No matter what, I will have hope. And I will have you wonderful ladies! So I'm not going to let it scare me.👻 I promise.

Tomorrow I get to take the stuff away! 🚐 Woohoo!🎆🎉🥂

Wow CM!

That is an amazing purge! I hope you have a sense of increased space to enjoy.

You seem to have been gaining a lot of useful insight lately.

Tillie, we're glad you are too smart to believe Steven. It saves a lot of disappointment.

We had a lovely time with Bean yesterday - and yes, I took pictures. 🤩

I did pretty well on the "recovery" yesterday. I still feel overwhelmed, but not as badly.

There was a lot of cooking and eating, so my kitchen and scullery are buried again.

Today I think I will be doing odds and ends. I ordered a Christmas gift for one of the kids (starting early to spread it out and take advantage of sales.) Also because I expect to be 90% online this year and may have to ship to ds. I don't know if we'll be able to see him.

More dishes, more laundry, more tomatoes, class postings, maybe first day plans...

We'll see where I end up.

Wow CM!

That is an amazing purge! I hope you have a sense of increased space to enjoy.

You seem to have been gaining a lot of useful insight lately.

Tillie, we're glad you are too smart to believe Steven. It saves a lot of disappointment.

We had a lovely time with Bean yesterday - and yes, I took pictures. 🤩

I did pretty well on the "recovery" yesterday. I still feel overwhelmed, but not as badly.

There was a lot of cooking and eating, so my kitchen and scullery are buried again.

Today I think I will be doing odds and ends. I ordered a Christmas gift for one of the kids (starting early to spread it out and take advantage of sales.) Also because I expect to be 90% online this year and may have to ship to ds. I don't know if we'll be able to see him.

More dishes, more laundry, more tomatoes, class postings, maybe first day plans...

We'll see where I end up.

Hi Subclinical

YEA! for a lovely time with Bean!
And photos to remember when he was little. ;D

Good luck with doing odds&ends bits&pieces today.

Good getting ahead on XMas presents.
So much easier when it's spread out.
Hoping you do get a chance to see Ds at some time.

Good Morning Everybody
"Clink!"

WAY TO GO! CriticalMass!!!

That's a FANTASTIC! start on taming the storage!

Great combination with you working with Badger and leaving Ruth at home. ;D

Your thought processes are great in deciphering the "whys" as to what you have.
Life happened and plans got changed too many times.
Yes, when the time comes there will be chairs available for you to find and bring home to use.

I have found that the universe does provide.
There is so much furniture out there to fit everyone's needs and budgets.

Keep the image of a smaller well organized storage unit for all your necessary items. (((HUG)))

The money pit van was deceptive in how high maintenance it really was because it slowly nickeled & dimed you to pay to keep it running.

I must have pushed it too far yesterday cause my back is really achy again.
Yesterday I was trying to do more bending down tasks like picking up kitty dishes off the floor.
Been trying to use the electric blanket and having to really fight with Scooter to "GET OFF!".

Steven finally came in from the garage 10:45pm last night for the first time since returning from the hospital.
There is no bathroom in the garage, only the one bathroom here in the house.
He keeps bottles of pee lined up out there.
Yes, you have all seen that before on episodes of HOARDERS in some of the worst case scenarios.

That, along with the mouse poop everywhere makes it a hazmat zone.

The wildfire smoke is "moderate" this morning and it should warm up into the 90s by afternoon.

Plan today is to baby my back until time to water my garden plants this evening.

Good Morning Everybody
"Clink!"

WAY TO GO! CriticalMass!!!

That's a FANTASTIC! start on taming the storage!

Great combination with you working with Badger and leaving Ruth at home. ;D

Your thought processes are great in deciphering the "whys" as to what you have.
Life happened and plans got changed too many times.
Yes, when the time comes there will be chairs available for you to find and bring home to use.

I have found that the universe does provide.
There is so much furniture out there to fit everyone's needs and budgets.

Keep the image of a smaller well organized storage unit for all your necessary items. (((HUG)))

The money pit van was deceptive in how high maintenance it really was because it slowly nickeled & dimed you to pay to keep it running.

I must have pushed it too far yesterday cause my back is really achy again.
Yesterday I was trying to do more bending down tasks like picking up kitty dishes off the floor.
Been trying to use the electric blanket and having to really fight with Scooter to "GET OFF!".

Steven finally came in from the garage 10:45pm last night for the first time since returning from the hospital.
There is no bathroom in the garage, only the one bathroom here in the house.
He keeps bottles of pee lined up out there.
Yes, you have all seen that before on episodes of HOARDERS in some of the worst case scenarios.

That, along with the mouse poop everywhere makes it a hazmat zone.

The wildfire smoke is "moderate" this morning and it should warm up into the 90s by afternoon.

Plan today is to baby my back until time to water my garden plants this evening.

Hi 😀

YEA! Happy your headache has gone Subclinical 😀
Good Dh has been taking it easy on his back.
Sitting on the couch holding Bean will be great.
Hope you take a pic.

WTG! doing laundry!!! ;D

Fantastic getting the class fully written up and posted.
Best wishes with the others, yea! for a few more days.

Hi Tatoulia
Thank you 😉

So happy you are well rested and relaxed. 😀
Get dressed and have a wonderful day.

Well, soon as he got up off the floor yesterday he went out into the garage.
He has not come back inside since.
A while ago I went and peeked to see if he was alive and he is.

When he was in the hospital he said he would come home and help me with things I am struggling with.
I did not believe him.

A pleasant day here, warmer and sunny. 🌞 I'm glad we got the rain but the sudden bout of cloudy and chilly weather had gotten me down.

And now it looks as though we won't have 90s for awhile or until next year. Kansas is fickle though, so I never make absolute statements! But today was pretty ideal.

No news yet on family.

My roommate had given me another small wire shelf unit she was no longer using, so I went to take it over to the storage unit where it can replace one of the several rickety plastic ones.

And while I was there, I sort of lost my mind. 🙃🙂🙃 But in a good way. I went crazy pulling stuff out and now the following is in my van awaiting donation on Monday:

__________

Three school chairs my parish got rid of some years back - sturdy but worn and splintery; I don't want to put in a bunch of work to fix them up.

Two wire milk crates

Two large empty non-transparent plastic tubs

A large whiteboard I don't need

My silk flower pick machine - I don't use it anymore

Various other containers, old Tupperware

Posters and cheap framed prints of Tuscany scenes which I'd put up at my parents' house - not part of my new minimalist plan, let somebody else enjoy them

Misc. like notebooks, household whatzits
__________

So yes, SubC, Badger came.🦡 I left Ruth at home though. So I was... wait for it... RUTHLESS! 🤷‍♀️

In addition to extricating donations, I was moving several shelf units to better positions and starting to clear space. Some items I ran out of time to sort today had to go back in "momentarily," so the front looks cluttered, but those items will soon be dealt with.

I'm finding that apparently I've kept more things that are bulky, blah, and not worth paying to store than I realized. I think I know now why this happened.

I believe moving so many times and having just so much to deal with sort of exhausted my capacity to process and look at things with a clear eye. Maybe sheer fatigue played a part - like, if it fit into storage at some point and I was tired of lifting stuff, I didn't question it.

And of course I had NO IDEA that I would end up staying even one year, let alone five, when I first moved in with the current roommate. I honestly thought I'd be figuring out a way to get back out on my own as soon as possible and would need some of those old chairs, etc. We had originally said a couple of months!

But so much happened, and thanks to the money pit red van, my small reserve of $1.5k was drained upon my arrival here. As was the $3k inheritance I got from my aunt later that year. That stupid old van... I can't believe how much I poured into that pile of junk. But it wasn't all at one time, of course.

Ah well. Water under the bridge. Right now I'm going to get this "stuff" situation dealt with, and that's what's important. Outlast the pandemic, help my roommate get through her health stuff, then see if I can find a way to bring in money. It appears, barring any drastic events, there is a sequence that will unfold so that I'll focus on one big project, segue into the one after it, then the one after that, etc. 🛣️

And when I get my own place, I can buy some not expensive, but nice new chairs or whatever else I need! It's even possible that this effort could result in being able to step down to a smaller storage unit. But one thing at a time.

A pleasant day here, warmer and sunny. 🌞 I'm glad we got the rain but the sudden bout of cloudy and chilly weather had gotten me down.

And now it looks as though we won't have 90s for awhile or until next year. Kansas is fickle though, so I never make absolute statements! But today was pretty ideal.

No news yet on family.

My roommate had given me another small wire shelf unit she was no longer using, so I went to take it over to the storage unit where it can replace one of the several rickety plastic ones.

And while I was there, I sort of lost my mind. 🙃🙂🙃 But in a good way. I went crazy pulling stuff out and now the following is in my van awaiting donation on Monday:

__________

Three school chairs my parish got rid of some years back - sturdy but worn and splintery; I don't want to put in a bunch of work to fix them up.

Two wire milk crates

Two large empty non-transparent plastic tubs

A large whiteboard I don't need

My silk flower pick machine - I don't use it anymore

Various other containers, old Tupperware

Posters and cheap framed prints of Tuscany scenes which I'd put up at my parents' house - not part of my new minimalist plan, let somebody else enjoy them

Misc. like notebooks, household whatzits
__________

So yes, SubC, Badger came.🦡 I left Ruth at home though. So I was... wait for it... RUTHLESS! 🤷‍♀️

In addition to extricating donations, I was moving several shelf units to better positions and starting to clear space. Some items I ran out of time to sort today had to go back in "momentarily," so the front looks cluttered, but those items will soon be dealt with.

I'm finding that apparently I've kept more things that are bulky, blah, and not worth paying to store than I realized. I think I know now why this happened.

I believe moving so many times and having just so much to deal with sort of exhausted my capacity to process and look at things with a clear eye. Maybe sheer fatigue played a part - like, if it fit into storage at some point and I was tired of lifting stuff, I didn't question it.

And of course I had NO IDEA that I would end up staying even one year, let alone five, when I first moved in with the current roommate. I honestly thought I'd be figuring out a way to get back out on my own as soon as possible and would need some of those old chairs, etc. We had originally said a couple of months!

But so much happened, and thanks to the money pit red van, my small reserve of $1.5k was drained upon my arrival here. As was the $3k inheritance I got from my aunt later that year. That stupid old van... I can't believe how much I poured into that pile of junk. But it wasn't all at one time, of course.

Ah well. Water under the bridge. Right now I'm going to get this "stuff" situation dealt with, and that's what's important. Outlast the pandemic, help my roommate get through her health stuff, then see if I can find a way to bring in money. It appears, barring any drastic events, there is a sequence that will unfold so that I'll focus on one big project, segue into the one after it, then the one after that, etc. 🛣️

And when I get my own place, I can buy some not expensive, but nice new chairs or whatever else I need! It's even possible that this effort could result in being able to step down to a smaller storage unit. But one thing at a time.

Good afternoon!

It's ok tatoulia, my headache is gone. Dh massaged my neck and I went outside in the humidity.

I'm glad you are well rested!

Tillie, Dh back is still bothering him, but he's taking it easy. No heavy lifting. Bean and family will be here a little later and he's going to just hold Bean on the couch. He's gotten a lot of desk/phone/paperwork things taken care of and put in order the last few weeks!

I'm glad your back is doing better!

I did my first laundry load and I am going to hang it.

I also got one of my 11 courses fully written up and posted (the first day lesson plan is still a bit vague). It was one of the three hard ones, so that makes me feel better. I'll finish another hard one this weekend. I thought they had to be done the 15th, but I actually have to the 18th, so that is better.

Dishwasher is running too.

Good afternoon!

It's ok tatoulia, my headache is gone. Dh massaged my neck and I went outside in the humidity.

I'm glad you are well rested!

Tillie, Dh back is still bothering him, but he's taking it easy. No heavy lifting. Bean and family will be here a little later and he's going to just hold Bean on the couch. He's gotten a lot of desk/phone/paperwork things taken care of and put in order the last few weeks!

I'm glad your back is doing better!

I did my first laundry load and I am going to hang it.

I also got one of my 11 courses fully written up and posted (the first day lesson plan is still a bit vague). It was one of the three hard ones, so that makes me feel better. I'll finish another hard one this weekend. I thought they had to be done the 15th, but I actually have to the 18th, so that is better.

Dishwasher is running too.

Hi 😀

YEA! Happy your headache has gone Subclinical 😀
Good Dh has been taking it easy on his back.
Sitting on the couch holding Bean will be great.
Hope you take a pic.

WTG! doing laundry!!! ;D

Fantastic getting the class fully written up and posted.
Best wishes with the others, yea! for a few more days.

Hi Tatoulia
Thank you 😉

So happy you are well rested and relaxed. 😀
Get dressed and have a wonderful day.

Well, soon as he got up off the floor yesterday he went out into the garage.
He has not come back inside since.
A while ago I went and peeked to see if he was alive and he is.

When he was in the hospital he said he would come home and help me with things I am struggling with.
I did not believe him.

Quick drive by. Went to bed at 7PM up today at 11:30. So relaxed.

Tillie: ugh and oh no. And head in the litter box is particularly funny. You earned that moment: don't hide in shame!

Cm you are my hero! Tough decisions executed perfectly! Fun to see the candles and yes, too much maintenance. And someone at the thrift shop will be very excited!

SubC. I'm worried about your headache!

Ok off to do some things today.

Feeling pretty good right now. In my favorite pjs and everything.

Quick drive by. Went to bed at 7PM up today at 11:30. So relaxed.

Tillie: ugh and oh no. And head in the litter box is particularly funny. You earned that moment: don't hide in shame!

Cm you are my hero! Tough decisions executed perfectly! Fun to see the candles and yes, too much maintenance. And someone at the thrift shop will be very excited!

SubC. I'm worried about your headache!

Ok off to do some things today.

Feeling pretty good right now. In my favorite pjs and everything.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Subclinical
Thank you (((HUG)))

YEA! the soap has arrived!

So sorry about that headache.
Hope it starts to leave you alone.

Bean is coming to visit!
Have a wonderful and relaxed time with them.

I have always found that doing the usual routine household chores helps me to feel more in control and hope it works for you too.
🐐

How is your Dh's back doing?

My back is doing better so far today.
Less extreme pain when I move.
The electric throw and resting it seems to be slowly working.
Never realized before just how much I need to bend down to do things.
So much activity is from the knees down.

Good Morning Everybody

Hi Subclinical
Thank you (((HUG)))

YEA! the soap has arrived!

So sorry about that headache.
Hope it starts to leave you alone.

Bean is coming to visit!
Have a wonderful and relaxed time with them.

I have always found that doing the usual routine household chores helps me to feel more in control and hope it works for you too.
🐐

How is your Dh's back doing?

My back is doing better so far today.
Less extreme pain when I move.
The electric throw and resting it seems to be slowly working.
Never realized before just how much I need to bend down to do things.
So much activity is from the knees down.

I must be a terrible person...

Every time I picture him laying there on his back on the floor with his head in the cat's litter box I chuckle.

😈

I must be a terrible person...

Every time I picture him laying there on his back on the floor with his head in the cat's litter box I chuckle.

😈

Tillie, I don't think that makes you a horrible person.

CM, those were very cute. Good job being brave and passing them on!

I'm sorry for the emotional struggles you are facing. These things are so exhausting. Definitely treat yourself to plenty of dark chocolate.

Tatoulia, did you get the trash out?

I'm glad everyone likes my future rose.

I had a good day with Bean yesterday, but I did not get much planning done.

I went to sleep with a headache last night, and woke up with one this morning. Don't worry, I'm not sick, it's sinus or tension. It's centered under my right eye and gets a little better when I take my glasses off. Unfortunately I'm pretty much blind without my glasses (Black Mr. kitty is sitting next to me on a dark brown couch. When the glasses come off, Mr. kitty blurs to invisibility)

My laundry soap arrived as promised, so I hope to do laundry today.

Dd is bringing Bean to see Dh this afternoon. They will either come mid afternoon accompanied by daddy and dog, or early lunchtime and the other two
will come later. Either way she is staying to cook and eat dinner.

I had "things go wrong and get out of control" school dreams again last night.

Today's theme is "recovery" I am going to try to focus on doing the things I need to do to feel less overwhelmed.

Tillie, I don't think that makes you a horrible person.

CM, those were very cute. Good job being brave and passing them on!

I'm sorry for the emotional struggles you are facing. These things are so exhausting. Definitely treat yourself to plenty of dark chocolate.

Tatoulia, did you get the trash out?

I'm glad everyone likes my future rose.

I had a good day with Bean yesterday, but I did not get much planning done.

I went to sleep with a headache last night, and woke up with one this morning. Don't worry, I'm not sick, it's sinus or tension. It's centered under my right eye and gets a little better when I take my glasses off. Unfortunately I'm pretty much blind without my glasses (Black Mr. kitty is sitting next to me on a dark brown couch. When the glasses come off, Mr. kitty blurs to invisibility)

My laundry soap arrived as promised, so I hope to do laundry today.

Dd is bringing Bean to see Dh this afternoon. They will either come mid afternoon accompanied by daddy and dog, or early lunchtime and the other two
will come later. Either way she is staying to cook and eat dinner.

I had "things go wrong and get out of control" school dreams again last night.

Today's theme is "recovery" I am going to try to focus on doing the things I need to do to feel less overwhelmed.

CriticalMass' three candle pics bring back lovely memories.
I remember everything 🌝

CriticalMass' three candle pics bring back lovely memories.
I remember everything 🌝

Hi CriticalMass
Hospice is a real blessing.
Concentrating on their comfort, peace and dignity at the end.
Biggest of (((((HUGS))))) for those she leaves behind.

Yes, find those 80% dark chocolate bars.
Chocolate is a wonderful "medication" for many physical and emotional problems. 😀

Do a drive-by whenever you get the chance to let us know you are doing ok.💝

Hi CriticalMass
Hospice is a real blessing.
Concentrating on their comfort, peace and dignity at the end.
Biggest of (((((HUGS))))) for those she leaves behind.

Yes, find those 80% dark chocolate bars.
Chocolate is a wonderful "medication" for many physical and emotional problems. 😀

Do a drive-by whenever you get the chance to let us know you are doing ok.💝

Somehow I double posted my own post! 🤪

Somehow I double posted my own post! 🤪

Well...
They sent him home in a taxi.
Since when he left in the ambulance wearing only a pair of green shorts they dressed him for the ride in scrub pants, a Tshirt from lost & found and a pair of those hospital socks with the rubber bits on the bottom for traction.

He came inside, dropped his plastic bag of hospital "goodies' on the counter and went into the bathroom to pee.

Finished peeing then fell out the bathroom door landing on his back with his head in the litter box.

Said he slipped.

I went out into the carport and extricated his walker from some clutter and set it on the porch.
It's filthy and well covered with spider/cob webs.

When he was standing upright again he went out into his beloved garage.
I told him to keep his phone close so he can call me should he fall again, pull a stack of stuff down on himself and need something.

Scooter is terrified again.
Took a long time for me to coax him out of hiding.
Hope he can settle down soon. 🙀

Well...
They sent him home in a taxi.
Since when he left in the ambulance wearing only a pair of green shorts they dressed him for the ride in scrub pants, a Tshirt from lost & found and a pair of those hospital socks with the rubber bits on the bottom for traction.

He came inside, dropped his plastic bag of hospital "goodies' on the counter and went into the bathroom to pee.

Finished peeing then fell out the bathroom door landing on his back with his head in the litter box.

Said he slipped.

I went out into the carport and extricated his walker from some clutter and set it on the porch.
It's filthy and well covered with spider/cob webs.

When he was standing upright again he went out into his beloved garage.
I told him to keep his phone close so he can call me should he fall again, pull a stack of stuff down on himself and need something.

Scooter is terrified again.
Took a long time for me to coax him out of hiding.
Hope he can settle down soon. 🙀

Never Forget 9/11 🕯️ I know none of us will...

My aunt was rehospitalized and is now being moved to hospice.💔😥

Just now texted my girlfriend about the other friend who had been in the hospital here; that friend returned to her care facility but the facility has a covid outbreak. 😰

In more everyday news, I did get the Gurley candles and a few other items to the thrift shop. Pics of the candles on IG.

Storage unit plans both excite and terrify me. That is normal, though. I've been stressed and depressed about lots of things, from 9/11 to grey weather to trying to figure out what all's going to happen to loved ones and when.

Wish I could get my oil changed. Texted mechanic guy again. If I don't hear soon, I am going to pursue other avenues, perhaps some guy at my church, I can ask around and explain my situation. Another time I miss my dad and/or wish I had a brother or husband good with cars.

Knowing that it will probably be soon for my aunt will mean that I'll know when the funeral will be. And that gives a priority then other lesser things will be arranged around it. It will work out.

The emotional stress is going to be rough but I'll do the best I can with it. We all know how this year depletes a person and how important it is to do what we can for basic self care. I'm even looking up online how to reduce cortisol because I imagine there are 4-5 gallons of it circulating in my bloodstream at any given time.

One thing I saw was that dark chocolate helps. So make sure and eat dark chocolate if you can get some!

I hadn't gotten round to mentioning it but my roommate's brother and sister in law are going to come again in October to do repair help or yard work or whatever like they did in August.

So I will have to not bring stuff back inside the house - but I didn't want to do that anyway. And perhaps by then if I can work steadily the storage unit will be able to hold the project stuff. And I still do plan to reduce the amount of stash and if things are neat and organized I'll be able to make what I do keep into finished product.

So anyway, be thinking of me and I'll be thinking of you, and you'll know if I am not posting at times it'd be because a lot might be happening but then I'll get back when I can. Or sometimes I end up posting more when a lot is going on. Whichever way it goes, impossible to predict.

So take care and be safe.

P.S. SubC - I looked up your Blue Girl rosebush - gorgeous!

Never Forget 9/11 🕯️ I know none of us will...

My aunt was rehospitalized and is now being moved to hospice.💔😥

Just now texted my girlfriend about the other friend who had been in the hospital here; that friend returned to her care facility but the facility has a covid outbreak. 😰

In more everyday news, I did get the Gurley candles and a few other items to the thrift shop. Pics of the candles on IG.

Storage unit plans both excite and terrify me. That is normal, though. I've been stressed and depressed about lots of things, from 9/11 to grey weather to trying to figure out what all's going to happen to loved ones and when.

Wish I could get my oil changed. Texted mechanic guy again. If I don't hear soon, I am going to pursue other avenues, perhaps some guy at my church, I can ask around and explain my situation. Another time I miss my dad and/or wish I had a brother or husband good with cars.

Knowing that it will probably be soon for my aunt will mean that I'll know when the funeral will be. And that gives a priority then other lesser things will be arranged around it. It will work out.

The emotional stress is going to be rough but I'll do the best I can with it. We all know how this year depletes a person and how important it is to do what we can for basic self care. I'm even looking up online how to reduce cortisol because I imagine there are 4-5 gallons of it circulating in my bloodstream at any given time.

One thing I saw was that dark chocolate helps. So make sure and eat dark chocolate if you can get some!

I hadn't gotten round to mentioning it but my roommate's brother and sister in law are going to come again in October to do repair help or yard work or whatever like they did in August.

So I will have to not bring stuff back inside the house - but I didn't want to do that anyway. And perhaps by then if I can work steadily the storage unit will be able to hold the project stuff. And I still do plan to reduce the amount of stash and if things are neat and organized I'll be able to make what I do keep into finished product.

So anyway, be thinking of me and I'll be thinking of you, and you'll know if I am not posting at times it'd be because a lot might be happening but then I'll get back when I can. Or sometimes I end up posting more when a lot is going on. Whichever way it goes, impossible to predict.

So take care and be safe.

P.S. SubC - I looked up your Blue Girl rosebush - gorgeous!
Never Forget 9/11 🕯️ I know none of us will...

My aunt was rehospitalized and is now being moved to hospice.💔😥

Just now texted my girlfriend about the other friend who had been in the hospital here; that friend returned to her care facility but the facility has a covid outbreak. 😰

In more everyday news, I did get the Gurley candles and a few other items to the thrift shop. Pics of the candles on IG.

Storage unit plans both excite and terrify me. That is normal, though. I've been stressed and depressed about lots of things, from 9/11 to grey weather to trying to figure out what all's going to happen to loved ones and when.

Wish I could get my oil changed. Texted mechanic guy again. If I don't hear soon, I am going to pursue other avenues, perhaps some guy at my church, I can ask around and explain my situation. Another time I miss my dad and/or wish I had a brother or husband good with cars.

Knowing that it will probably be soon for my aunt will mean that I'll know when the funeral will be. And that gives a priority then other lesser things will be arranged around it. It will work out.

The emotional stress is going to be rough but I'll do the best I can with it. We all know how this year depletes a person and how important it is to do what we can for basic self care. I'm even looking up online how to reduce cortisol because I imagine there are 4-5 gallons of it circulating in my bloodstream at any given time.

One thing I saw was that dark chocolate helps. So make sure and eat dark chocolate if you can get some!

I hadn't gotten round to mentioning it but my roommate's brother and sister in law are going to come again in October to do repair help or yard work or whatever like they did in August.

So I will have to not bring stuff back inside the house - but I didn't want to do that anyway. And perhaps by then if I can work steadily the storage unit will be able to hold the project stuff. And I still do plan to reduce the amount of stash and if things are neat and organized I'll be able to make what I do keep into finished product.

So anyway, be thinking of me and I'll be thinking of you, and you'll know if I am not posting at times it'd be because a lot might be happening but then I'll get back when I can. Or sometimes I end up posting more when a lot is going on. Whichever way it goes, impossible to predict.

So take care and be safe.

P.S. SubC - I looked up your Blue Girl rosebush - gorgeous!

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Good Morning Everyone
Iced Chai "Clink!"

Hi Tatoulia
Happy you got more postcard stamps. 🙂
WTG! for moving fast and buying the stock!

Hope you managed to get the trash out this morning.
Your house may be messy but with cleaning Fairies regularly you do NOT have squalor. 😀

Boston is probably having some sort of remembrance ceremony today.
Stay safe and stay away from any crowds. (((HUG)))

Hi Subclinical
I love best the scent of the Tea Rose and yours sounds absolutely beautiful.
I have faith you will be able to make it thrive.

Seems like you got a good start on the classroom.
Getting in there and seeing it now you can plot and plan your next attack.

Fingers crossed the soap comes today XXX
Critters are priority, then preserving your wonderful tomatoes.

But today is Bean day!!!! 😀
Nothing else really matters (((HUG)))

I used to have a nice heating pad but Steven took it a long time ago and I have not seen it since.
But I remembered I have a small electric throw blanket.
Got it out and it is working great, really helping ease my back.
But Scooter keeps taking it from me when I fall asleep.
Whenever it's turned on he is all over it and won't move.
Stupid cat. ;p

In spite of him I was able to get some good restful sleep last night.

My plan for today is to keep resting with the heated throw and do tiny tasks to keep things functioning in the house.
Litter box got scooped yesterday.
Cats all got food and water.
I had a bagel with cream cheese and later a bowl of veg beef soup.
Been washing the dishes as I use them so no dish build up.
YEA! Me. 😀
I have English muffins and more soup for today.
Maybe I will even cut up my cantaloupe?