THIS MORNING, I DELIBERATELY TOOK LIFE SLOW. No breakfast this morning. Sipping my hot herbal tea instead. INTERMITTENT FASTING? Something like that. Lunch will be my first meal of the day.
Planning on lots of veggies like Succotash. Snacks...not sure yet maybe an apple with peanut butter. Supper will be Spaghetti Squash with marinara sauce and green beans with sliced almonds. I weighed myself this morning and I'm off to a great start on my February food program. I'm dreaming of the day when I weigh 50 pounds less than I do right now. It mustn't be a pipe dream, but a reality to work toward. I must.
WORK BEGAN. After I started my day, I managed to switch out some storage tubs. This worked. The storage box I just bought yesterday was way too large for the UV Light. Shucks so I did some switching. The gift wrap tub was stolen to put the light into and a different tub I bought was filled with gift wrap boxes, shredded papers for fillers and beautiful spools of ribbons. All fit nicely. The light can go to the garage now. The gift wrap accessaries will go to the utility room because this storage box will not fit under the bed where the gift wrap paper rolls are already neatly stashed.
Some shuffling took place in the Utility room. Not completely done yet, but almost. The room is extremely crowded. The clothing rack and metal rack with shelves that holds small appliances were shuffled about freeing up some room so my old treadle sewing machine can be moved over to a different window. This new location will allow me to actually sew in place with the lid swinging open. Where it is right now I can't do that. The place where the sewing machine was will have my Eastlake table with a pretty lamp sitting on it. Sometime this week, I'll share a pic or two. Curtains will be sewed later for the room. I have the material somewhere. grins. Have to relocate the material. This relocation to our COTTAGE has some big challenges, but we're getting there.
I threw another bedsheet into the washer with a lot of bleach. Running on a very long cycle as I work at getting the yellow out of the sheet. When I was at TARGET, a bedsheet box for $5 from the discount bins was misplaced by someone on shelves in a different part of the store. This black and ivory colored flexible box was like the one I bought a couple of weeks ago and when I went back to the cheap bins to get some more of these sheet boxes, there weren't any. So when I came across this $5 one that looks like the one I bought before, I was delighted to place it in my shopping cart. Cha-Ching. Bingo. A victory.
I'll be working at getting yellow stains out of the bed sheets by laundering them on extra long cycles with bleach. When they are ready to fold up, I'll size them to fit into the bedsheet boxes. Nice and neat here we come.
I'm making progress on our HOME, but we still have so much out of place to where we appear to look like hoarders living here. It's embarrassing to say the least. Send in the intervention people to tell us we need help and therapy. Family members won't be crying as I protest their help. Even with the effort to get this place in order, it is draining to my mental health. I cheer myself on so I can go on. I've often wondered why this task is taking so much time. It just is. I have a new appreciation for others who have gone through this or are going through this chore like we are.
Downsizing into a tiny COTTAGE from a larger estate where years of accumulating lots of STUFF has happened has been a tough cookie for me to eat. It is life changing what we are doing as two old people. Better now then if we have to do this in a few years. With so many people passing away, death is a reality and I have to think seriously just how much time I want to put into this task.
As we go through things in the house creating order, items are going to the garage that we are going to keep, give away or try to sell. Doing this in baby steps. I had hoped to keep the Living room and Dining room looking like civilized people live here. Decluttering the rooms has taken on a whole different feel as I have to have some place to work as I go. For instance the storage boxes are beginning to pile up as I fill them then I have to place them in the proper room for storage.
I am extremely slow at this which doesn't help with getting it done quickly. We are blessed to have a roof over our heads, flushing toilets and running water. We have a place to cook/bake when preparing meals, eat, store food, store clothing, do laundry, sleep, bathe, and entertain skills and talents we possess. We have a place to sit when company comes over. We can grow a few vegetables and watch pretty flowers bloom on our property.
OUR COTTAGE is a blessing as we take another jab at saving money and live within our means. This is like playing a game to see if we can do it.
I watched some videos on YouTube about weigh loss to get inspired. It is amazing how so many others have achieved this. One lady showed the worked outs she has done. She truly stayed with her ambitions and reduced to a pleasant size. Over a 6 month period she filmed herself each day exercising so you could watch the endurance it took to reduce her size. I will exercise more in the near future as this task of downsizing must take precedence over exercising like this young woman did. I have hand weights to the side of my chair and am lifting them with various arm exercises.
I bought a foot peddler that is still in the box waiting for me to open and use. I shall do so.
Back to doing the household chores. When I am so far behind, it bothers me. In order to put a smile on my face, I truly have to think about it. It has not come naturally to smile. It can be done, so I will do it.
~d😊
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