Re: The High-Five Corner

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WOOT WOOT WOOT ^5s all over the place!!!

So glad this thread is still going strong – makes me happy every time I visit! I’ve definitely got to get back in here more often! I

I don’t make it in here so often because I’m in organizing mode most days, and I want to keep it going, but I definitely need to find time for the good old stuff – my workouts, which used to be my escape from organizing, have gotten the back-burner treatment; need to get those muscles back! – and this forum!

Spent some time last night getting caught up with the posts in various threads. Could that be what inspired me to get some long-put-off tasks done?

OK, at least one of them wasn’t my doing – my boss called me – but it meant I finally got some info from her that I needed for my calendar, so I’m still happy! So many work questions settled – hooray! Now I know what I still need to do to get ready.

This one’s all my doing though: grabbed an accordion file that sat in our home office for who knows how long and went through the whole thing. Pitched a bunch of papers, put the financial stuff in an envelope for hubby to deal with (and probably discard) – most everything was from 2002!

One thing I did NOT pitch was my husband’s Social Security card, which was sitting in there with all these grocery store receipts! Holy cow! Put it in our safekeeping place and e-mailed him to tell him where it was.

The entire thing was made so much more pleasant by two things:

– The whole “keep or toss” business went SO much faster! Thank you new perspective and meds!

– I had a lovely spot to work in. One of my organizing projects was to clean up our sun room. It’s been our kids’ playroom and for most of its life you couldn’t even walk across it; you had to ballet-dance. Finally chucked out a bunch of stuff (old coloring books, anyone?) and found better homes for the rest (Lego drawers! Yay!) and it is so much nicer to look at – and be in! I’m looking at sunshine on fall foliage and just feeling so pleased – and relieved – to reclaim this space as something beyond a dumping ground with a layer of dust on top!

Felt so good about the papers project that I then went online and settled up the overdue fines on all the library cards in the family. Major ouch there, but so much better to have that behind me!

I’m thinking I might have to start a new thread about how to do libraries when you have ADD. I always check out way too many books, renew them to the limit (nine weeks, for crying out loud), and still manage to return at least half of them after the due date. It’s almost like we are renting books, rather than borrowing them!…No, no – new thread…Going there now!

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