One Thing that Made Me Happy Today
[Full Happiness post coming later in the day; I wanted to highlight this one.]
Between breakfast with the family, picking Vonda up, taking another shipment of Scott's things to his apartment and various breaks to watch health-insurance-reform votes, I was chipping away at various sources of clutter in my dining room and living room. Later in the evening I decided to focus on the living room almost exclusively, so that I could clear off the entire coffee table and get some other things wherever they're winding up. Eventually, between the things I cleared earlier and the furniture Scott and I moved to his place on Saturday, I managed to make the living room look almost...spartan, if such a thing can be imagined. There's lots of free space on every surface, open walking spaces, enough room between the seating and coffee table that someone could actually walk by comfortably. Best of all, there aren't mounds of stuff deposited everywhere just because it has to be somewhere.
I feel calmer already. It's really...peaceful. I've long resented my house not being someplace I could feel peaceful in this way, partly from the incoherence this sort of thing engenders. It's why I had to relocate to Corinne's house for almost a week to write my thesis when I found that I simply couldn't concentrate enough here. It's what I eventually & finally concluded that I couldn't have while still living with Scott, carrying on as I have been.
This is what I wanted. This is what this whole project is about. This is exactly what I wanted.
Between breakfast with the family, picking Vonda up, taking another shipment of Scott's things to his apartment and various breaks to watch health-insurance-reform votes, I was chipping away at various sources of clutter in my dining room and living room. Later in the evening I decided to focus on the living room almost exclusively, so that I could clear off the entire coffee table and get some other things wherever they're winding up. Eventually, between the things I cleared earlier and the furniture Scott and I moved to his place on Saturday, I managed to make the living room look almost...spartan, if such a thing can be imagined. There's lots of free space on every surface, open walking spaces, enough room between the seating and coffee table that someone could actually walk by comfortably. Best of all, there aren't mounds of stuff deposited everywhere just because it has to be somewhere.
I feel calmer already. It's really...peaceful. I've long resented my house not being someplace I could feel peaceful in this way, partly from the incoherence this sort of thing engenders. It's why I had to relocate to Corinne's house for almost a week to write my thesis when I found that I simply couldn't concentrate enough here. It's what I eventually & finally concluded that I couldn't have while still living with Scott, carrying on as I have been.
This is what I wanted. This is what this whole project is about. This is exactly what I wanted.