Spring Cleaning Has Begun!
Ian & I moved 11 times in 10 years, as some of you old timers may recall. Then we bought Moriarty Manor in 2011, and -- Bless me, Father, it has been nearly 4 years since my last serious decluttering! The bug bit me square on the nose in the past few weeks, and now I'm on a roll.

The BasementIt started with the finished ( Read more... )

I told Ian on Saturday that I feel like I'm sort of "phoning in" life lately. I'm a little crazy, perhaps -- a little depressed (or as close to it as I get). I'm just floating for a bit. Stay tuned to see how your heroine survives this latest peril and eventually breaks out of this funk... but beware that there may be periods of silence until then ( Read more... )

ARGH! It seems that no matter what system of organization I choose for my electronic music collection, I suffer an annual crash and have to rebuild it. This year's crash is thanks to the recent plague among our computer monitors. When one of Ian's monitors died, I offered to let him use my second one since I depend on it less than he does. When we ( Read more... )

Ian and I went through our wardrobes today. We tried on virtually everything to make sure it still fits. We found a whole cache of his clothes from our last move that we'd entirely forgotten about, and haven't touched in more than a year! (Bad us.) We got rid of tons of stuff, and yet I'm surprised we kept as much as we did. Today's haul to the ( Read more... )

And lo, I wake up like it's Christmas morning to find my emailbox stuffed with requests for all but one item on yesterday's Freecycling list. BOOYAH!

Trace

I get obsessed with self-improvement hobbies -- I label them as "hobbies" because really that's what these efforts are. Oh sure, they're serious, and self-improvement overall is a lifelong goal. I just fixate on different flavors of self-improvement from time to time: my academic education, fitness, finance, and of course decluttering.

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The sun came out yesterday, and here in Austin it was a perfect day: Mid-60s, clear skies, no wind, just gorgeous weather for working outside! I wasn't kidding about the comparison to WALL-E with his solar batteries; I felt instantly perked up just with a nice day and all its possibilities. Meanwhile, to balance the very sad news received the other ( Read more... )

While driving down the highway today, I saw a single windmill turbine being transported on a really long truck. At first I thought it was a missile! The size of the thing was really impressive. I wished I had my camera with me to take a really hazardous and no doubt out of focus and bad picture of the thing to share with you. It was something to ( Read more... )

Snapped just a little bit yesterday -- I'm done. Just lonely, and listless and adrift for too long. Don't worry, this is hardly a bona fide Cry For Help or anything; I'm okay in general -- Ian's portfolio is coming along nicely, next will follow his job search, then we pick up stakes and move again, hopefully next time to settle for several years ( Read more... )

Happy Christmas score this morning -- My mother revealed recently that her el cheapo vacuum cleaner stopped working awhile back. For who knows how long, she has apparently just been spot-vacuuming with her Dust Buster. My first reaction was to rearrange Christmas shopping plans to get her a new vacuum, which made me debate whether to replace the ( Read more... )