Lightening My Load
Aug. 3rd, 2013 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
days_unfoldingOperation Lighten My Load is going well. Thus far, I've given away a wall hanging, a toaster oven, three cat carriers, four cat beds, a scratching post, and some canned cat food that the girls don't like. Someone was also interested in a wall-mounted jewelry box, but hasn't picked it up yet, so I need to contact her and see if she still wants it. (Getting rid of that breaks my heart because I love it, but most of it holds earrings, and I no longer wear earrings. However, I spent over $2000 of my own money moving down here, and I don't have tons of money lying around, so I really need to be ruthless.) More to come....I had planned to go through my stuff and get rid of some of it this summer, although I thought that it would be under different circumstances. On the other hand, as they say, a deadline focuses the mind.
The plan is that my mom will come down here next weekend to help me go through the stuff in the garage. Most of my book boxes are falling apart and need to be replaced. While we have the boxes open, I'm going to go through them and see what I can get rid of. We also want to go to the Lincoln Museum while I'm still down here, and possibly also have lunch in Champaign-Urbana. I'd like to take a day off to make it a long weekend, but am worried about saving my vacation time for job interviews and such. I would work an extra weekend day to make up the time, but I doubt that they'd let me do that.
I think that I'm going to lie down for a while because I had problems falling asleep again last night. I don't really want to call my doctor and ask for sleeping pills because I already take enough meds, although I suppose that if I really have to, I will. First, I want to get serious about starting up a meditation practice again, and see if that helps.
The plan is that my mom will come down here next weekend to help me go through the stuff in the garage. Most of my book boxes are falling apart and need to be replaced. While we have the boxes open, I'm going to go through them and see what I can get rid of. We also want to go to the Lincoln Museum while I'm still down here, and possibly also have lunch in Champaign-Urbana. I'd like to take a day off to make it a long weekend, but am worried about saving my vacation time for job interviews and such. I would work an extra weekend day to make up the time, but I doubt that they'd let me do that.
I think that I'm going to lie down for a while because I had problems falling asleep again last night. I don't really want to call my doctor and ask for sleeping pills because I already take enough meds, although I suppose that if I really have to, I will. First, I want to get serious about starting up a meditation practice again, and see if that helps.
