welcome to bramageddon
Gah! If I don't post NOW, I won't have a post for August and I'll have broken my New Year's resolution. So here are the bullet points:
* Year of Health: July - I actually managed to go to the Y every day until I had an accident at work and hurt my shoulder on Thursday the 22nd (ironically, just after posting my last entry). We were having an office cleanup day and I got all tangled in wires while I was vacuuming and fell. To make sure I didn't damage any electronic equipment, I literally flung myself into a cinderblock wall. Although I didn't dislocate the shoulder, I was whiny enough about the pain that my doctor gave me codeine-laced advil. Anyway, thus endeth the morning workouts.
* Year of Health: August was overshadowed by Cancer Scare 2010. When I was called back for additional scans at the end of July, I made the first appointment I could: the following Tuesday. When I showed up, it turns out that they hadn't recorded my appointment and couldn't take me...coudl I come back that afternoon? No, no, I couldn't. It was another two weeks before I could be rescanned, and fear and dread pretty much wiped out any YoH planning. (We're very excited about YoH: September, but we'll talk about that...um, tomorrow.)
* Budget - Without notice, my cable bill jumped by $20 this month. For a long time, I've been paying for more cable than I actually watch because I had a package deal that was no longer available and I didn't want to give up something I could never get back. I've now trimmed it down so I'm paying less than I was before the price hike, with considerable room to trim back even more when prices go up again. (Though I would miss BBC America if I had to cut the next tier of channels.)
* Bramageddon - this past weekend, I reclaimed my closet. Or, really, I reclaimed the door to my bedroom by moving the dress shirts which had migrated to the drying rack hanging from the door back to the closet where they belonged. To make room, of course, I had to tidy the closet first...I can't really say I cleaned it out, since only got rid of one jacket and one dress (does anyone want to explain to me why I kept a bridesmaid dress for 20 years?), but I also discovered a treasure trove of forgotten bras. That kind of confused me. Were they from another size me? Nope, my current size. Were they damaged? Nope. I don't know why they were exiled to the closet, but they have now been washed and restored to the herd.
Anyway, aside from the miraculous recovery of the prodigal brassieres, moving the shirts back the closet highlighted how resigned to clutter I have become. Without a curtain of shirts guarding the bedroom door, the whole area feels more open. My next plan is to tackle the kitchen, where dry and canned goods have taken up permanent residence atop the refrigerator and microwave.
* Year of Health: July - I actually managed to go to the Y every day until I had an accident at work and hurt my shoulder on Thursday the 22nd (ironically, just after posting my last entry). We were having an office cleanup day and I got all tangled in wires while I was vacuuming and fell. To make sure I didn't damage any electronic equipment, I literally flung myself into a cinderblock wall. Although I didn't dislocate the shoulder, I was whiny enough about the pain that my doctor gave me codeine-laced advil. Anyway, thus endeth the morning workouts.
* Year of Health: August was overshadowed by Cancer Scare 2010. When I was called back for additional scans at the end of July, I made the first appointment I could: the following Tuesday. When I showed up, it turns out that they hadn't recorded my appointment and couldn't take me...coudl I come back that afternoon? No, no, I couldn't. It was another two weeks before I could be rescanned, and fear and dread pretty much wiped out any YoH planning. (We're very excited about YoH: September, but we'll talk about that...um, tomorrow.)
* Budget - Without notice, my cable bill jumped by $20 this month. For a long time, I've been paying for more cable than I actually watch because I had a package deal that was no longer available and I didn't want to give up something I could never get back. I've now trimmed it down so I'm paying less than I was before the price hike, with considerable room to trim back even more when prices go up again. (Though I would miss BBC America if I had to cut the next tier of channels.)
* Bramageddon - this past weekend, I reclaimed my closet. Or, really, I reclaimed the door to my bedroom by moving the dress shirts which had migrated to the drying rack hanging from the door back to the closet where they belonged. To make room, of course, I had to tidy the closet first...I can't really say I cleaned it out, since only got rid of one jacket and one dress (does anyone want to explain to me why I kept a bridesmaid dress for 20 years?), but I also discovered a treasure trove of forgotten bras. That kind of confused me. Were they from another size me? Nope, my current size. Were they damaged? Nope. I don't know why they were exiled to the closet, but they have now been washed and restored to the herd.
Anyway, aside from the miraculous recovery of the prodigal brassieres, moving the shirts back the closet highlighted how resigned to clutter I have become. Without a curtain of shirts guarding the bedroom door, the whole area feels more open. My next plan is to tackle the kitchen, where dry and canned goods have taken up permanent residence atop the refrigerator and microwave.