Furniture Tetris, how I hate it! This annoying game whereby I have to move three to seven different things to make room for the thing I want. It would be less infuriating if half the stuff I'm moving wasn't stuff I can't get to where I need to put them, because I have - or more frequently someone else has - Tetris'd in the place where I need to put ( Read more... )

The declutter continues, but at a much slower pace than I wanted. Wee Jamie's death kicked me in the teeth somewhat, and issues with the Smooge don't help - result = I'm at least a week behind where I want to be.

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A friend in her early 20s is agonising because she's under a great deal of pressure from her mother and (mostly) her mother's partner to move out of home. While I empathise with her feelings, especially with her feelings of being unwanted and forced to leave her home, part of me wants to tell her 'the world is not a secure place, and you need to ( Read more... )

The cleaning/fixing/organising bender is still going on; rather than hitting one thing, I'm doing all the little things that jump to my eye as needing to be done. Today's task is getting the living room and kitchen presentable enough that I can host post-rehearsal coffee for AUCS this evening. Despite the frequent 5 minute sidetracks, it's all ( Read more... )

I'm on a cleaning jag. I'm sure it's to do with the Great Brain Switch, but it's also got some hefty symptoms of my annual Pesach preparation. 1/16 jewish, and about all I've inherited seems to be a twitchyness every February/March to clean the kitchen especially. Last year I was ridiculously early, this year it seems to have kicked in late ( Read more... )

Some mental switch obviously flicked in the Week of Great Cheque Writing; something, somewhere said 'Ok, enough grieving for dead relationship, enough grieving for lost parents. Time to fix your life.' Am fired with enthusiasm to deal with stuff. Only hope it lasts!

The Library has been my bug bear for some time. It was always my space when ( Read more... )

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I felt pretty down this evening, because I cleaned up the kitchen, I washed a stack of dishes and clothes, I put clean stuff away, I cleared and cleaned the kitchen table, I put in a solid 5 hours work, and I felt like I achieved nothing, because it was all general housework and not fixing the outstanding problems.

But I've been sitting here ( Read more... )