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An Update About My Life
Aug. 8th, 2019 10:23 amHi, all. Well, it's almost mid-August and I am working diligently to be prepared for a moving van to collect my things around September tenth. There is an old Amish saying that perfectly describes how I'm feeling right about now: The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
My place is beginning to look like a warehouse that hosted a gang war, what with all the boxes starting to pile up and every surface(almost) covered with what came out of drawers, closets and shelves. I've found that I'm very visual; if I put things away, I tend to forget about them, not a good thing when one is purging and packing. The things that are driving me mildly insane aren't the things I'm taking. It's what I'm not taking because I still have to do something with it.
I downloaded the "Letgo" app and the first thing I posted, a two drawer file cabinet, sold in three days and I had several offers. That sounds like a good thing, but not really. It's like when you gamble and win big the first time. You keep gambling expecting the same result and it doesn't happen. I'm experiencing that with Letgo, nothing else I've listed has sold.
I refuse to get too stressed. If I can't sell the stuff, I will donate it and take it off my taxes. The majority of what I want to sell I've owned for at least 20 and in some cases, 30 years, so I've definitely gotten good use out of it. I just want to go home.
And Nevada is my home now. I love New York City, but I am over him. I want to look out my window and see mountains. I want to cuddle with my cats, Pepper and Itty Bitty. I want to get a small dog to go with them. I need to squash the Cat Rebellion currently occuring in my home. My cat rule is that anywhere I put my behind, they can, too. My next door neighbor who's been caring for them since I came East, has informed me and sent photographic proof that the cats have decided a new rule is in effect: They are sitting on tables. This new rule caused them to break a glass end table and the lamp that sat upon it as their fat butts caused the glass to tilt and fall. Luckily, no one was hurt and I was getting rid of it anyway, but they didn't know that, so I must return and as Fred Sanford once said, "Do some budnipping!"
I miss writing! I managed to eke out a Boston Legal story that demanded to be told, but I'm afraid that if I really sit at the laptop, work that must be done, won't be. It's too big a risk to take. I want to participate in the Halloween challenge so badly, but I just can't now.
I don't anticipate getting to my new normal before Thanksgiving of 2020. Yes, I did say 2020. I have to move, unpack, finish renovating the condo and God only knows what else. Me, myself and I make a good team, but a slow moving one sometimes.
Anyway, just wanted to share. I'll update again at some point in the future.
My place is beginning to look like a warehouse that hosted a gang war, what with all the boxes starting to pile up and every surface(almost) covered with what came out of drawers, closets and shelves. I've found that I'm very visual; if I put things away, I tend to forget about them, not a good thing when one is purging and packing. The things that are driving me mildly insane aren't the things I'm taking. It's what I'm not taking because I still have to do something with it.
I downloaded the "Letgo" app and the first thing I posted, a two drawer file cabinet, sold in three days and I had several offers. That sounds like a good thing, but not really. It's like when you gamble and win big the first time. You keep gambling expecting the same result and it doesn't happen. I'm experiencing that with Letgo, nothing else I've listed has sold.
I refuse to get too stressed. If I can't sell the stuff, I will donate it and take it off my taxes. The majority of what I want to sell I've owned for at least 20 and in some cases, 30 years, so I've definitely gotten good use out of it. I just want to go home.
And Nevada is my home now. I love New York City, but I am over him. I want to look out my window and see mountains. I want to cuddle with my cats, Pepper and Itty Bitty. I want to get a small dog to go with them. I need to squash the Cat Rebellion currently occuring in my home. My cat rule is that anywhere I put my behind, they can, too. My next door neighbor who's been caring for them since I came East, has informed me and sent photographic proof that the cats have decided a new rule is in effect: They are sitting on tables. This new rule caused them to break a glass end table and the lamp that sat upon it as their fat butts caused the glass to tilt and fall. Luckily, no one was hurt and I was getting rid of it anyway, but they didn't know that, so I must return and as Fred Sanford once said, "Do some budnipping!"
I miss writing! I managed to eke out a Boston Legal story that demanded to be told, but I'm afraid that if I really sit at the laptop, work that must be done, won't be. It's too big a risk to take. I want to participate in the Halloween challenge so badly, but I just can't now.
I don't anticipate getting to my new normal before Thanksgiving of 2020. Yes, I did say 2020. I have to move, unpack, finish renovating the condo and God only knows what else. Me, myself and I make a good team, but a slow moving one sometimes.
Anyway, just wanted to share. I'll update again at some point in the future.
