Sunday, February 27, 2011
Ha … what someone said to me .. months ago, has again proven to be true. “If you know what day it is .. then, you are not really retired!”How true .. I was just thinking about the date, is today the 26th or 27th? And I had to look at the Country Grocer weekly flyer to find this out! Too funny. For so many years, my life was focused around the date. The days I work, the days I don’t work. The days for a little vacation. The days for a course. The days when I celebrate.
Now I have endless days to do what I want to do. So the day really isn’t that important to me. Except our special days, those are always important to me & my dh!
So .. my computer is now lightning fast .. I no longer have to wait impatiently, for a site to finally pop up on my screen. Thanks to our wonderful friend, K, our computer is no longer a little dinosaur.
I used to spend such a lot of time at the keyboard and that has all changed. Within a few minutes, I’ve visited all my daily sites and there is nothing more to do. So I have to wean myself away. But, perhaps – just a wee look at free items in Used Victoria .. and then my Google and Yahoo accounts.
But, today, I’ve done that and still have a need to spend just a “few more minutes” looking for information. Well, I haven’t visited my dear ole pal, HGTV for a while. I quickly log in and go right to the message boards. Over the years I’ve spent many a happy hour there. Researching information for crafts. Talking about pets. Laughing about procrastination messages. I’d started a conversation. And, oh wow, the funny comments that people listed there!
One woman had started an outfit for her daughter, then had put it away .. and then she resurrected it and was going to finish for her granddaughter! There were many similar funny stories!
Anyway, today, I see that someone has started a conversation on Crafts, Decluttering. Just spend 15 minutes a day .. and so on and so forth. It is so easy, when one is very focused on a craft, to just accumulate all the materials and then just keep pushing them to the side of the work table. Keep on working. No time to sort and put away. Soon .. there is a mini-mountain of items that need to be sorted out “one day”.
There is a lot of inspiration in the messages on this forum … why I love these Message Boards. Sorta like a group of like-minded friends, always encouraging.
http://boards.hgtv.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4004031632/m/6753959637
Time to start the day .. and so on and so forth!
Yesterday, I had grabbed my little extra camera before we dashed away for recycling and out for lunch. I’d taken a few closeup photos of a clear set of bird footprints… just two feet away from a clear set of cat footprints. No skirmishes. And I think there was a time-lapse between the time that the two species had occupied the porch ledge. Just seemed interesting to see these two sets so close together.
Sunday breakfast finished, dishes washed and put away! Kitties boxes are cleaned. Time for some laundry and on with the day!
Maybe I’ll do a 15 minute session of paper decluttering too!
🙂
Spent some time sorting out some plastics. Yesterday I’d gone through my cosmetics, discarding quite a few items. Emptied the contents and then filled up the sink with the plastics and metal components and started scrubbing away, so that I could recycle them. Kind of disconcerting to see that one of the facial moisturizers didn’t dissolve in the soapy water. Wonder what the ingredients were.
Decided once and for all, the snow was rapidly disappearing and I prepared myself to go outside and start emptying some of the 29 large garden bags that were stuffed to the gills with beautiful oak leaves. And … the skies opened up and the rain poured down. Hmmmmm… perhaps I’ll leave this for a bit.
The rainy weather is perfect to start the composting process. It’s a bit late in the day to start working outside today, so I promise myself that tomorrow morning I’ll just put on my Australian waterproof riding coat and go outside for a few hours.
sigh.