But I'm stymied...
First, many thanks to Rob who cleared off "2 and 75/100ths" worth of shelf space for me. Apparently he reads these late night offerings - and reads more into them than he's meant to...or not enough - honey, you were supposed to offer up that entire room you call a study....
Really, though - it was a rant and nothing more and I am very grateful for the shelf space that was immediately put to
The stymied part:
Anyways, I'm on a cleaning roll, which actually sucks a lot, because I need to get to bed very soon so I can do the computers during the day tomorrow, rather than sleeping in until noon again (I'd feel more embarrassd if I hadn't been up till 4:15 am or later 2 nights in a row). There is an inordinate amount of papers to be sorted. Many of them are stationary and school supply type things, that need to go into containers, post sorting, on the shelves I've not finished. I bought cheap and, more importanly, easy to put up, shelves for the kitchen. But they're small and not sturdy enough which means that I'll be building shelves after all, which is what I've been avoiding. Not from scratch, but from kits, but not the simple melamine ones either - pine shelves that require a large number of screws which need my electric drill to put in. If I didn't have to head to bed, I'd do that tonight so Ii can start emptying boxes.
The other papers - Xander's school papers pre-homescholing, which need to be filed, last years work, also needing to be filed. All the workbooks and schoolbooks and programs I have for homeschooling, many of which, thankfully, are at least semi-organized. The rest to be organized... Then my stuff- household receipts and bills and pay stubs and stuff. Medical papers to be filed. Insurance stuff to be dealt with. My journals and notebooks and planners and all the other stuff I accumulate.
Aside here - the main revelation from the title - I have found a disturbingly large number of journals and notebooks and workbooks with all my weight loss plans - clearly unsuccessful. What the hell am I going to do? How will I do it differently so that I stick to it and it works? I quite frankly, like junk food and convenience foods and don't like fruits and veggies very much at all. Xander does come by it naturally, though it was hugely exacerbated by his school. Anyways, what is going to make it stick? How am I going to deal with it, find the time, energy, motivation and headspace to get my weight down where it should be? I'm kind of leaning towards a bootcamp, but its too late this time around. But I'll try to set some goals and a plan I can stick with and get on it. I was supposed to begin this Tuesday, but I'm postponing, for the FINAL TIME, until after Galiano, next weekend. This cleaning (and procrastinating) has been more work than I anticipated, plus all the back to work and homeschooling stuff.
Anyways, I also have a myraid of pens, pencils, glue sticks, stickers, etc to sort and put away. Once I get the shelves up I can deal with a lot of it, and then I can sort the rest while watching my tv shows which start soon. Authorman Rob has used a chunk of his money not only for the new computer, but also for a PVR and I'm very excited about this. I loved using my brother Terry's when we housesat for him. Pause, rewind and record tv as its on? Program it to automatically catch all your shows when you go away? How cool is that? And good for Rob, ad me, as he'll be away a lot, and he can catch his shows and I don't have to mess around with the VCR or worry about remembering...Yay!
Anyways, so that sorting can take place after the rest, and I truly plan on continuing to plug away for an hour or 2 every day until its done.
We'll see.
But I have lot of junk and stuff and crap and important stuff too, which i need to find homes for and its truly stupid that now I've cleared enough of it and sorted enough that I can actually see what needs to be done and where I'm going with it, and I need to stop. I'm worried I'll not get back into the swing of things soon. I need to be in the right mood and it all jsut works - I get into an amazing cleaning flowstate adn I'm there now. So I'm stymied..stay up and go with what's working, but be tired tomorrow whaen i'm fiddling with computers and all that stuff? Or head to bed and risk losing this flow...
I think there was more, but I can't remember now, so I'm off to finish the clearing out a space for the computer on my worktable. And a printer, too - a large one. Actual cleaning to take place at a time TBA.
I'm even more behind schedule, because I slept in (which I needed), then we went downtown, which was fun, but took a lot of time, and then to Walmart, which we also needed, but was way less fun and took even more time. And somewhere in there I got really sick with a hideous headache. The day is actaully a blur - if I think hard I can remember it, but its like a dream. So we got home late in the afternoon, Xander didn't do any of his math he wants to get done, and instead of cleaning, I ended up seriously crashing, having imbibed a huge mass of strong painkillers, after lying in bed shivering and unable to move. When I woke a couple of hours later, it was Xander's bedtime, I had a slight fever and was incredibly overheated and the headache had subsided but not completely disappeared. So that was a whole day gone right there....
Okay, I think I need to finish the little stuff and leave the rest, even though I don't want to. But I can't waste a whole day again - I have way too much to do.
Boy I'm whiny right now - good thing I can vent here and not impose it on someone who doesn't have the option of walking away...
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