What Memories to purge

I am going thru the first closet (yeah started a little later than I said.)
I found some stuff. Old stuff.

I found my autograph books from Grade 9 and grade 8..I don't recognize most of the names. A lot of it is faded..so it's gone. I am okay with it.




then I found a folder. really cool looking folder..I remember finding that folder..saying how appropriate. I loved the Rocket..he was an Argo and won a couple Grey Cups for them before he headed off to the NFL to be a no body. I bought his cards I cut out articles. And my Dad knew John Candy and there was an article in there about when he died..etc..
I can't part with it. I can't purge that memory. I found a Nike ad in there as well when the Just Do It slogan came out. It is so true..I will copy and post it..but funny when I cut that out I would have been 12 or 13 and now looking at it at 31 it makes sense. I don't know what I thought of it then, obviously enough to cut it out..but wow.

I have only done two shelves and I am already posting..that can't be good. I don't think there is any other memories on the shelves so we should be good..

Well I was wrong.
I found my lost dreams.




My text books.
Over the years I have slowly purged my text books.
I do have two at work that I do reference so they have purpose.
They others I don't know why I kept them.
But I got rid of them.
They are all on the stairs to go.
I did keep one. Auditing. I wanted to be an Auditor. But the dream is gone. I don't regret finishing school. I have a good job I have lost a lot of my knowledge which is sad. I do some accounting. Not as much as maybe I once did. But I am not miserable which means something too.

But the closet is completely empty now.
We are going to have to make a dump run I can tell. Hopefully next weekend we can do that.
I think I will ask if I can borrow a truck from work and just get it done. Now where to store the crap until then.

I feel good but a little sad too.

Okay good news. The idea was to make room in the first closet to put my scrapbook albums in there. AND THEY ARE. So I feel pretty good right now.

And for that I am taking a break. Have an nice cold, sugary, caffeinated beverage. The cats are going nuts around the house.

The wind is blowing which means all the leaves just came off my massive maple tree in the front yard..which means tomorrow I might be raking up leaves. argh.
It is one of my jobs that I was assigned. Mason does not rake leaves.

Well at least I am taking pics of the progress..And it's 2pm. so much more to do. I really haven't made a dent which is what I have to get past.

Well just about ready to go back..I think this will be a long post.

It is 9:20pm and I am still going. I am losing momentum but I have made a lot of progress.

Parts 1 & 2 are done and now I am onto just putting the rest of it away.
This had not been fun.
I had a moment where I just stood in the centre of the room going I have too much stuff and not enough room. Once I got past that moment things started to happen.
My husband has been fantastic during this ordeal tonite. Stuff was everywhere in the rec room (the office is attached)..all he said was just make sure the coffee table is clear and the couch..and just make a path to the couch.

I don't know if this will ever end.
I will post all the pics tomorrow.

It's about to begin

Well I slept in (or slept in for me) which is great.
I got up and showered.
I have had 1 tea. Making another and it will start.
Part 1.
I did have a moment of procrastination I was offered to go to Jackie's and hang out. And I almost faultered. But nope. I am not changing my cloths. I am in comfy cloths today. I am not leaving the house today.

I have my camera downstairs with me to document the chaos..

Well wish me luck. I must get off the couch

The Office Part 2

Now in part 1..I am technically working counter clockwise in the room. that isn't going to happen now in Part 2.

Get everything off the floor and out of the room.
Clean off the table item by item.
Items allowed to stay on work table: Tool kit, note pad, writing utensils, and to be determined. EVERYTHING ELSE MUST BE off the table.

Now any other wayward item in the room will be dealt with first before items that are not in the room but need to be start to come in.
After that is done I will re-assess the situation and decide what is going where.
I have two new racks that need a home. I would like to get some glass jars for my flower collection..so all these things need a home and or space.

I will reassess then because I am hoping I will have extra closet space to put items that I don't need all the time but I will remember I have and can be kept out of site. (Does that make sense?)

The Office Part 1

Really crude drawing, again not to scale.

My Office / Scraproom is a dumping ground for wayward stuff, and just stuff..plus I have a lot of scrapbooking supplies (that might be an understatement--depending on who you ask).
I would like to take up my hobby again. (More info about this room and stories can be found on my other blog at Crafty McCrafters

This part is happening Tomorrow Night (if I don't have a nap) and or Saturday Morning.
Clear a path to the closets and make room to empty closets (yes this drastic measure is necessary..I said dumping ground)
Find fiskars shape boss packaging to keep for reference. (this is more of a note to self..but helps to write it down.)

My office is roughly 11 x 11 it has two sunken closets. I has shelving 1 doesn't. It also has an older kitchen table that can seat six, my 1903 made in Hamilton Ontario beautiful really heavy (been told it is never moving again, it will stay with the house because it is so heavy) desk. 1 two drawer filing cabinet, 1 plastic utilty shelving unit with three shelfs. 1 book case in 1 of the closets, 2 rolling drawer carts, 2 trunk size rubbermaid (housing Christmas decorations) which has on top of it a piece of counter top housing scrapbooking supplies) 1 printer cart that has guess..yep more scrapbooking supplies. 2 office chairs (or really 1 new office chair..other one is antique), and that is about it for fixtures.


Closets
Goal to get rid of anything and everything. To create more storage space.
Closet closest to door.
Remove rubbermaids from the bottom and go thru later
remove all other debris from bottom of closet.
Vacuum bottom of closet
Start on bottom shelf
go thru each item on shelf and either toss, salvation army pile, or keep
Same for other two shelves.
Remove items that don't belong in the closet and take them to the place they belong


Farther Closet
Go thru book case and condense books
Either toss, keep or salvation army pile.
Go thru top shelf and empty as much as possible.
Remove items that don't belong in the closet and take them to the place they belong.


DESK
1 drawer at a time (5 in total)
empty drawer and go thru each item.
Decide what each drawer will house and designate that space and put things there.
PURGE
Hopefully be able to take some closet stuff and put in drawers
Top of desk
Go thru all items and put away.
Only things that should be on desk are computer equipment
Wipe down desk
Have Mason look at old office chair to figure out how to put casters on it.


Filing cabinet.
Go thru both drawers and get a shredding pile
Purge and be able to put stuff in filing cabinet.

Also have Mason get out new ceiling tiles. I might be able to install them as well.

Remove all garbage bags, recycling, Salvation army piles..etc.
And get ready for Part 2..

3 pans...really

I cooked a simple dinner last night.
For my husband it consisted of a (1 pan) Turkey Tornado (turkey meat wrapped in bacon) and mixed veggies with (2nd pan) sauteed onions and veggies and I had the same except I had a (3rd pan) sweet potatoe as well. And of course I used many knives (cause they kept disappearing) and cutting board..and various spatulas and spoons. The kitchen is written off..

I did some dishes but there were still some left.

How can two people create such a mess.

So tonite...I will be cleaning the kitchen, and vacuuming..we will see what else needs to be done as well..I don't think we have enough for a load of laundry..so YAY no laundry..

I am absolutely so proud of myself for putting away all my laundry and keeping up with it. This right there is a huge feat on my part.

The Pro's of being Broken

Well being broken (and that is my official diagnoses) means that my husband will cook dinner and serve me and do stuff around the house.

He won't do stuff the way I do stuff but stuff does get done.

Doesn't make being broken fun, but it does make it a little more bearable.

I think I will try some yoga tonite and see if that helps.

I can also work on my binder while sitting and doing nothing. We will have to see.

Progress Report..and today's list

I am not doing very well with this.
Two rooms are organized which has made a difference.
But I need to get more committed.

On the go today:

-Do laundry without leaving the house!!!!
-vaccum upstairs
-clean kitchen
-put cloths away
-straighten up room
-but away baskets from organization (items left to be organized)
-clean bathroom

Not too bad. it's 11:30 now..if I start now I will make great progress and maybe get it all done.

I feel like crap today. But I think I would rather have it done.

Will I miss the laundry mat?

I liked having all my cloths done at the same time. I really did.
But I didn't like having to leave my house to do so.

The laundry mat we went to was awesome. It was clean there was an attendent at all times..etc.

We bought a dryer today. There was one on sale and we bought it. It is smaller than our other one. I can't dry comforters in it..so I won't be forever away from the laundry mat. But we can now do laundry (or completely do laundry again)at home.

It is plugged in tested and it works.

Yay.

Do your socks match

I have 1 little antique dresser in my room..it has 3 drawers.
Top one...underwear and bras. Second drawer socks, third..shorts and pajama stuff..

My Sock Drawer is a Crap Shoot.

Unless my husband folds my cloths my socks are just thrown in the drawer. And most the time my socks won't match in the laundry cause I find socks everywhere. I have a lot of socks.

Now I have a lot of the same socks. I have 4 kinds.

White athletic socks (all the same brand size etc..so really you see a white sock all you need to do is find another one in the drawer..really easy to do)

Thick bright socks..there not really meant for wearing in shoes they are if your feet is cold and your running around the house.. (I detest wearing slippers--but that is another story for another day).

Dark socks..and by dark I mean..dark blue, brown, grey and black

And lastly, patterned socks.

So last night I have my feet up on the recliner..my husband noticed my socks..he said they don't match. I said sure they do..he said nope they don't.
I said they are both dark grey and have black patterns on them..they are the same brand, they came in the same pack..he said the patterns are different. I said other than you..who sees my socks. My pants cover them and even if you did see a little sock you would never know.

Well he went on and on about my socks not matching.

Personally I don't care. I stick my hand in the sock drawer in the morning and pull out a sock..whatever comes out I look for something similar..it's a surprise every time.

I know some people have a sock fetish..my husband does..

Me I don't care..my cousin blatantly wears different colour socks..I mean one orange and one brown..

So is my sock drawer going to be part of my organizing. Hell no.

But my socks match this morning!! I had to check though just now to find out. Who cares about socks.

Master Bedroom

I did it.
I didn't procrastinate I just did it.
Little things left to do..but overall I accomplished something.

Surprisingly it didn't take that long to do either.

Plan of Action.
- removed all comforters, pillows, throw pillows, blankets, sleeping bags from bed put on dinning room table.
- removed sheets and put in laundry.
- emptied off dresser into a basket and all loose items in room.
- emptied all cloths onto bed and I handled every object 1 by one. Why I did this is to sort items. All cloths not belonging to be immediately went into my husbands bedroom (yes we sleep in different rooms..just because it works for us). All towels and other sheets went out to the dinning room table, and jackets as well.
- I went thru my closet and purged some items. There were not many to purge as I do this quite frequently.
- After all items were off the floor I vacuumed. It's amazing how many dust bunnies there are under my bed. Under my bed is the cool air return so it just sucks the bunnies towards it..my room is very small and vacuuming is a challenge especially trying to get under the bed.
- I dusted items.
- I started to put away cloths. Again handling items individually. All summer items or items that go in drawers just went into a basket. I was focusing on the the hanging items.
- After everything was hung I moved all the summer cloths into my bins and put them on the floor of my closet.
- Went thru the basket of stuff I had taken off my dresser sorted the items. Purged and put things in better places (some items some are still in the basket). Since the bathroom has been organized I now moved all hair products into the bathroom. Not much is left in my room now.
- Re-made bed and since it is getting colder..I battled and conquered putting my duvet in it's cover.
- Missing items that have not been recovered yet--my beautiful $15 tweezers (I thought that was expensive). I really thought they had fallen behind the bed or night stand. I cannot find them anywhere. I really need to pluck my eyebrows to.

Left to do.
- go thru night stand
- take items that do not belong in bedroom (currently all items sitting in a basket) to their new homes.
- wash walls
- buy a curtain rod
- hang curtains (I have some already)
- figure out what to store in cedar chest and getting moth ball smell out of cedar chest.
- take apart ceiling fan and clean it.

Ahhh..was nice sleeping in my room last night

I'm back

I think I am refreshed. I am sure waiting for turkey later.
Today is going to be a busy one.
We had a couple nightmares this weekend.
Plumbing. My husband swears a lot when he does plumbing.
First off let me tell you a story.

So Friday of a long weekend. I got off work early and came home had a nap and life was good. Did a couple things around the house..
I have discovered Farmville too on Facebook. Very addicting.
Anyway. Mas is in the basement taking apart the laundry tub trying to unclog it. So 20 minutes later he says run the kitchen sink....I go up stairs and do that. I hear STOP..which I know (without being told) that my kitchen sink now leaks into the basement because he cut out the laundry tub.

Now if I was given notice that this was going to be happening on Friday night..I would have made sure all the dishes were done..nope..counter full of dirty dishes.

So I ask WTH..and he said well I wanted to have it all ready so I knew what I need because Rona is having a scratch and save event..etc..I just looked at him.

So Saturday we get up and we have a few things to do. We go to Rona and we both agreed that buying a lot of plumbing supplies would be better (we can always return them) better to have more than to be short.

So fine we get home I said I am going to the laundry mat (yes my dryer is still screwed) I said you fix the plumbing I will go to the laundry mat. Better I wasn't here for the plumbing.

I get home just over an hour later and he said it took only 20 minutes to fix the problem. He has cleaned up the kitchen and everything is good. And I had a new and clean laundry tub installed as well.

So Sunday we took back all the parts that were left over..there were a lot of parts.

Today we are cooking our Thanksgiving dinner and inbetween I am cleaning my bedroom.
Going to be an interesting one today.
I will throw our cook from frozen stuffed Butterball (bought on sale at Walmart) turkey breast shortly and then I will go into my hole of a room and start cleaning.

I just wrote my plan of action for it and will post shortly and I have to accomplish it today. To many cloths need to be put away for this not to work out for me today.

Meal planning this week is going to be great.

We have a lot of food in the house right now..plus we will have left overs from today.

Food Basics in our area is going out of business. I never go into that store, I have a couple times and then swore I would never go back. It was just dirty and hard to maneuver around..just wasn't a great store. So they have a sign posted 25% off everything in the store. So we went in to get pantry items. And did we ever. We stocked up on certain items..our freezer and pantry are just full.

So menu planning this week will be interesting. I know Mas will not want turkey for dinner if he is having turkey sandwiches. So I think a lot will be frozen. I am not making a lot of sides for dinner tonite..or let me re-phrase that I am not making a huge quantity of sides.

Well I need to figure out this cook from frozen turkey.

We will be back on air

No later than Monday Oct 12th.

Life.

LIFE

what was that saying life is what happening when you? I dont' remember it but it applies here.

Yeah this week is a complete write off. Nothing is getting accomplish this week anyway or until the weekend.

I am so hoping to be going out for dinner this evening. I got some gift certificates to the Keg steakhouse for my birthday and tonite I could really use a nice glass of red wine and a honky hunk of red bloody meat. Oh and a nice conversation with my husband. I will be taking him..I think I am close to the point of just going by myself if he doesn't want to go. I did text him and said I want to go to keg tonite. His response was sure..so I will hold him too it.

Lots going on right now no time to do anything. I still need to find time to do a list for the weekend though.

My lack of posting should be a good indication

Yep Friday night had a nap woke up at 8:40pm..so nothing got accomplished.

We went out this weekend so other than a quick clean thru the house nothing else was accomplished.

I think I am more frustrated now more than ever.

Tonite is laundry. I have to go to the laundry mat again. This is not fairing well with me. I had people spend the night on the weekend so I have comforters and bedding galore. I need to find a cheap dryer. My husband keeps saying wash the cloths at home and then go. Well that only works for a couple loads. If I actually had my *stuff* together this would work for me. But too much bedding right now for that to work. Our bedding will have to wait because I think I will have too much tonite to do all at once.

This weekend is the long weekend. Thanksgiving. Should be lots of time to do things since we are not going anywhere for dinner. I think if I plan this well with lists and such I should be able to get a few things done. We do have a houseguest coming I believe. We bought our cook from frozen stuff turkey breast this past weekend. Really looking forward to it. Have to make more lists on what I need to go with it.

Top priority is my bedroom, the linen closet.

I have a busy week this week too. This week I am off work a couple days to go to doctors appointments and I am teaching a class on Tuesday. Couldn't be busier this week. So I am limited on what I can do during the week. My husband went to the grocery store before I could meal plan so I am working with what I got.

Tonite we are having hamburger helper with brocoli.
Tomorrow I am out so he is on his own.
Wednesday is fish or poultry.

I really need to find a dryer. So laundry can be done at home.
I do love that my cloths are all done at once and such going to the laundry mat. But I hate leaving home to do so.

Well I will have lots of time this evening at the laundry mat making lists for the weekend.

I need to get my life together I don't think I am making any progress at all...

Should be interesting

to see what get accomplished tonite. My summer hours are over and I have to work until 4pm today. It has been since Victoria Day weekend since I have worked until 4pm on a Friday. I can just imagine what traffic is like.

So nap time whill probably happen tonite. And I have to go to the lss to finish up a class I am teaching on Tuesday.

I am going out Saturday night and we might have people in the house tomorrow so the house will have to be cleaned.

So the overwhelmness is kicking in and it is only 7:50am.
And tonite I am cooking ribs for the first time.
I should for go the nap I think.
I might be grumpy later though.
So you have been warned.

Well

The nap won (only lasted 10 minutes..really it did. I was shocked too), I did not clean the bathroom last night, but I did do other productive things. I do feel guilty not cleaning the bathroom..so I did other chores around the house.

But I did read last night instead of watching tv.
Tonite I have a bunch of running around to do then home.
Tomorrow I have to work until 4pm because our summer hours have ended. This should be interesting.