Category: decluttering

Week 31/2023: Menopause in four acts

Week of 31 July 2023 An overwhelming week Things have been getting intense. Lil Sis and I have been avoiding going through our mother’s place now that she’s no longer living there, but the time has now come where we have to do it. I normally write each week’s...

Week 29/2023: The pain did not abate

Week of 17 July 2023 The pain did not abate I mean, this is getting ridiculous. I have, as far as I know, no injury, yet my right leg is causing me a world of pain, in which sitting down hurts, standing up hurts and moving around relieves it...

21 for 2021: week 6

Week 06/2021: week of 8 February21 for 2021 update I did a thing! I had my exercise physiologist appointment (thing 1) on Friday. I didn’t really know what to expect, walking into a gym to meet someone who I imagined would be super fit and super motivated and having...

21 for 2021: week 3

Week 3/21: week of 18 January 2021 21 for 2021 update Some time ago I was chatting to my GP about getting older and how I want to make sure I stay as healthy as I can for as long as I can. I said one thing I’ve always...

Challenge 9 – 30 days of undone things

It’s time to start work on 30 things I’ve been putting off and that are annoying me. Here’s my complete list of things I am going to finish before 31 December: Sew button onto black top Clear stuff off bench top Book skin check Order pen from Notemaker Order...

it’s been a busy year

Regular readers of this blog (if I still have any left) will notice that this is my first post in over three months. I’m not really sure where to take this blog now. In 2011 I achieved my goal of blogging my 365 Project every day, and earlier this...

P365 – Day 275 – MORE housework!

Today I decided I really needed to follow on from last weekend’s cleaning frenzy  On today’s list were Juniordwarf’s bedroom and the laundry.  Both of these are rooms that kind of terrify me. With Juniordwarf’s room, I think it’s going to be a matter of working with him to...

P365 – Day 171 the clean desk policy (um, what?)

This is the sight that greeted me when I walked into work this morning. Just as I left it on Friday afternoon.  Two projects in progress scattered around, a letter I was supposed to have started last week, left over papers from something I finished a couple of weeks...

P365 – Day 145 it’s all too much

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I’d come to the realisation that ‘life is now’. It’s not something that happens once you’ve worked out what you want to do and how you’re going to do it. Although I was feeling pretty unwell that day, I appreciated...