In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Quote:Yes, I wa a bit worried when you didn't show up, like I would be worried if BRENDA didn't show up. I should have known you didn't need to be worried about, but my imagination sometimes runs away with me.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
That was prodigious amount of work, SIX.
What an improvement!
And for so little $$!
You're an inspiration.
Been MIA for a few days. Went out with my dad and one of my brothers the other night then went to my grandma's to dehoard the entire 2nd floor except for my aunt's room.
She's got a full garage to throw away again. I couldn't believe there was more junk up there than there was in the basement.
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Thursday I was too pooped out to do much after working as hard as I could for four or five days. Friday was a treatment day; I don't know WHY it's so tiring bc all I do is lay down in a recliner chair and get infused, but ... it is. Today I STILL couldn't get my rear in gear and only managed some daily things, but I hope to be back on track tomorrow.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Yes, I wa a bit worried when you didn't show up, like I would be worried if BRENDA didn't show up. I should have known you didn't need to be worried about, but my imagination sometimes runs away with me.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
That was prodigious amount of work, SIX.
What an improvement!
And for so little $$!
You're an inspiration.
Been MIA for a few days. Went out with my dad and one of my brothers the other night then went to my grandma's to dehoard the entire 2nd floor except for my aunt's room.
She's got a full garage to throw away again. I couldn't believe there was more junk up there than there was in the basement.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Yeah. Sorry. Sometimes I don't announce when I'm leaving the place unattended. I guess it depends on my mood the day of.
The good news is that there wasn't any mouse poop upstairs. I didn't think there would be, so hopefully we're as lucky on the 1st floor.
The plan seems to be to get my aunt down on the 1st floor before winter. That way they can shut off heat to the upstairs except for the bathroom for the shower up there. I still had to clear out that fruit cellar and that was just awful. Glad I got that out of the way first.
I also fixed the bad light over the washer and dryer and installed a new sweep on the external door since the old one had rusted away.
Lots done. My aunt is probably going to be throwing that trash out through the end of August though.
I was hoping to donate a lot of that stuff to Goodwill... especially the huge collection of books, but I just couldn't do it. It's been about 7 years since my aunt even bothered cleaning the two rooms and the closets that weren't hers, and that's a house that gets a lot of humidity and there used to be a lot of cats in there. Add to that the fact that until my aunt quit smoking it was a heavy smoking house. Nobody wants any of that stuff. My hands felt grimy just throwing the books away.
Shame...
Hope you're feeling better. Don't press yourself too hard Sigs. I don't want to feel guilty if I'm making you feel guilty by doing so much stuff right now. I'm in one of my manic states where I'm really useful. I'm making up for 3 months wasted during the winter.
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Oh, don't feel guilty, SIX! I have good old-fashioned Catholic guilt trained into me. If I slack off too much, my conscience starts bothering me.
Also, I get a charge out of "getting things done". I think I get my dopamine burst when I can dust my hands, look around and say There! That's done! I still get boost whenever I open my (recently defrosted and re-organized) meatlocker.
It sounds like you've really making big improvements in other people's lives. Good on you! 
It's a huge relief to most people* to have their surrounding simplified bc every unnecessary item kind of tugs at attention. One of the happiest times of my left was in the few months before we moved to CA- I had to stay bck to sell our house, and sold off almost everything and packed up the rest. For a while I slept on a sleeping bag on the bedroom floor and ate out of one pot, one cup, one bowl, a spoon and a knife. No car: I walked to work. My life was really, really simple.
*Unless that person is a hoarder, which is it's own special pathology.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, don't feel guilty, SIX! I have good old-fashioned Catholic guilt trained into me. If I slack off too much, my conscience starts bothering me.
I was never confirmed, but I grew up with a lot of it myself. I actually do have quite a lot to feel guilty about from my past, but there's no sense in dwelling on it. Onward and upward.
Thanks for taking that burden off of me though.
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Also, I get a charge out of "getting things done". I think I get my dopamine burst when I can dust my hands, look around and say There! That's done! I still get boost whenever I open my (recently defrosted and re-organized) meatlocker.
Yeah. It's really a good feeling. It's just too bad I can't find enjoyment in the process when I'm doing the chore rituals as I do when I'm making something.
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It sounds like you've really making big improvements in other people's lives. Good on you!
I'm trying to. It's certainly a better way to spend my free time than what I used to do with it.
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It's a huge relief to most people* to have their surrounding simplified bc every unnecessary item kind of tugs at attention. One of the happiest times of my left was in the few months before we moved to CA- I had to stay bck to sell our house, and sold off almost everything and packed up the rest. For a while I slept on a sleeping bag on the bedroom floor and ate out of one pot, one cup, one bowl, a spoon and a knife. No car: I walked to work. My life was really, really simple.
Simplicity is nice. I still have way too much crap myself. I think it's one of the things that is really pushing me to get things done right now though. A lot of that "crap" is actually good things to use in my house, but as long as it's just sitting there on shelves in my garage or on platforms in my basement it's just crap.
My ultimate goal is to have this entire house restored and only have enough stuff filling it that would fit in any one of the 1 bedroom apartments I've ever rented.
I know that my aunt is THRILLED about this. She actually told me that she finds comfort in the empty rooms, and that she's never going to accumulate stuff in her new place. Noble goal, and definitely not the words of a hoarder. I wish her luck with that.
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*Unless that person is a hoarder, which is it's own special pathology.
Yeah... My grandma is though. I would never have even attempted this even just 5 years ago when her short term memory was still sharp and she got around a lot easier. My aunt wasn't worried about her seeing us taking anything out, but I told her to just pack the junk that was hers in bags and just stay out of my way while bringing everything out to the garage except for the few times I needed her help with larger furniture. I didn't want my grandma seeing any of that making its way outside. She would have died if she saw that I dismantled an admittedly really nice dresser that was somehow still in good shape just to take it down without killing ourselves. Sure, my aunt is right... even if she saw it she would probably forget about it 5 minutes later, but I don't want any of this to bring any emotional pain to my grandma for even a split second.
Fortunately, I DID take the top of that dresser and three more slabs of wood from it back home with me. They're the nicest pieces of wood I've had in that garage so far. Even though I don't have current plans for them, I will throw out some of my other saved wood to make room for them. Like the small shelf I still had left that I said I could make a breadboard out of, the 3 slabs from the bottom of the dresser and in between the drawers are made the same, but much larger. I'll have to figure out something really nice to do with them. They're way too good to be making something like garage shelves out of.
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Just a Sunday around me. Nothing happening. My one day to just sit down and not do much of anything.
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I hate climbing chairs to replace light bulbs.
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Quote:I think my "day' to do nothing was Thursday.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just a Sunday around me. Nothing happening. My one day to just sit down and not do much of anything.
Oh, and Friday and Saturday!
Thursday I was pooped out from pushing myself.
But Friday and Saturday were due to infusion, I think. Fatigue is a side effect.
Also, I'm still anemic. I'll try taking iron, that might help.
A piece of GOOD news ... even tho I was busting ass outside and sweating like crazy, it didn't make my kidneys worse. So as long as I stay hydrated and make sure to get enough salt, I can tolerate outdoor work.
So today I managed an hour of "yard"work, even tho is was just raking up under pine trees and sweeping up the driveway and walkway. It hasn't been done in I don't know HOW long, months and months, but still I was surprised to fill up a whole big binful.
There! That's done!
Tomorrow I'll water the veggies, walk the dog, and tackle a bit more front-yard cleanup, altho I haven't decided exactly where. I'll pick a small spot that I can finish in an hour ... or less.
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Quote:Me too.
Originally posted by Brenda:
I hate climbing chairs to replace light bulbs.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I think my "day' to do nothing was Thursday.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just a Sunday around me. Nothing happening. My one day to just sit down and not do much of anything.
Oh, and Friday and Saturday!
Thursday I was pooped out from pushing myself.
But Friday and Saturday were due to infusion, I think. Fatigue is a side effect.
Also, I'm still anemic. I'll try taking iron, that might help.
A piece of GOOD news ... even tho I was busting ass outside and sweating like crazy, it didn't make my kidneys worse. So as long as I stay hydrated and make sure to get enough salt, I can tolerate outdoor work.
So today I managed an hour of "yard"work, even tho is was just raking up under pine trees and sweeping up the driveway and walkway. It hasn't been done in I don't know HOW long, months and months, but still I was surprised to fill up a whole big binful.
There! That's done!
Tomorrow I'll water the veggies, walk the dog, and tackle a bit more front-yard cleanup, altho I haven't decided exactly where. I'll pick a small spot that I can finish in an hour ... or less.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
A trio of days is good.
Some extra iron in your diet should help.
Yes, keep a water bottle handy at all times and make sure your diet has a little extra salt in it.
Slow and steady SIG. That's the way to go.
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