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"Life-Changing Magic"
Apr. 26th, 2015 01:22 amHmm. I'm having a rare bout of insomnia, so I might as well update.
On Thursday, I noticed that one of the tires on my car was almost flat. I drove over to the gas station to fill it, hoping that it would hold air long enough to get to a tire dealer the next day. I discovered that the little cap that goes on the tire valve was missing. The tire filled up with air quite well and held the air. My theory was that I parked too close to the curb, knocked the cap off, and bent the valve so that the air escaped. Thinking about it now, though, those caps to the valve screw on, so I wonder how easy it is to knock one off. It might have been a "prank" by a student. If so, gee thanks.
When I was getting together to go to work on Friday, I realized that my wallet was missing. I looked in the house and on the passenger side of the car (where I normally keep my purse), but no wallet. The last time that I remembered seeing it was when I paid for the air. I went to the gas station and asked if anyone had turned in a wallet, but no one had. I stopped at work and told them the situation, and went home to find my passport so that I could get a new driver's license. Well, it took way too long for me to find the passport, but eventually I did find it. I gathered all the documentation that I needed for the DMV, wrote down the phone numbers to call about my credit and debit cards, and canceled my Younique debit card. I went to the car to leave--and the wallet was on the floor on the driver's side of the car. I don't know how it got there.
I am dismayed at how long it took to find the passport (although now I have it in a convenient place!), so I'm determined to get the place organized. I'm reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and and Organizing. In the book, the author recommends that you sort and purge objects by category, rather than by room, in the order of clothes, books, papers, misc, and mementos.(She also recommends that you pile all the items that you have in a category together to sort them, but that's not going to happen here.) She also said to keep only those items that give you joy. I'm not entirely following her directions, but she has inspired me. I have two bags of clothes to go to Goodwill, and I cleared the hall near the bathroom, brought up the blue chair for the hall, and built a bookcase.
I was perplexed about what to do with some items that qualify as mementos: some old IBM t-shirts and a Museum of Science and Industry plate, and I've decided to sell them on eBay. I'm not doing it for the money; I just would like them to go to someone who would appreciate them.
On Thursday, I noticed that one of the tires on my car was almost flat. I drove over to the gas station to fill it, hoping that it would hold air long enough to get to a tire dealer the next day. I discovered that the little cap that goes on the tire valve was missing. The tire filled up with air quite well and held the air. My theory was that I parked too close to the curb, knocked the cap off, and bent the valve so that the air escaped. Thinking about it now, though, those caps to the valve screw on, so I wonder how easy it is to knock one off. It might have been a "prank" by a student. If so, gee thanks.
When I was getting together to go to work on Friday, I realized that my wallet was missing. I looked in the house and on the passenger side of the car (where I normally keep my purse), but no wallet. The last time that I remembered seeing it was when I paid for the air. I went to the gas station and asked if anyone had turned in a wallet, but no one had. I stopped at work and told them the situation, and went home to find my passport so that I could get a new driver's license. Well, it took way too long for me to find the passport, but eventually I did find it. I gathered all the documentation that I needed for the DMV, wrote down the phone numbers to call about my credit and debit cards, and canceled my Younique debit card. I went to the car to leave--and the wallet was on the floor on the driver's side of the car. I don't know how it got there.
I am dismayed at how long it took to find the passport (although now I have it in a convenient place!), so I'm determined to get the place organized. I'm reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and and Organizing. In the book, the author recommends that you sort and purge objects by category, rather than by room, in the order of clothes, books, papers, misc, and mementos.(She also recommends that you pile all the items that you have in a category together to sort them, but that's not going to happen here.) She also said to keep only those items that give you joy. I'm not entirely following her directions, but she has inspired me. I have two bags of clothes to go to Goodwill, and I cleared the hall near the bathroom, brought up the blue chair for the hall, and built a bookcase.
I was perplexed about what to do with some items that qualify as mementos: some old IBM t-shirts and a Museum of Science and Industry plate, and I've decided to sell them on eBay. I'm not doing it for the money; I just would like them to go to someone who would appreciate them.
