Spring is here!
Monday, March 9th, 2015 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
... Well, it might be. This was the first morning that I walked outside, smelled the air, and thought Yes. Mind, the confluence with the first morning* of DST does seem a little jarring: strictly speaking, the morning was actually darker than it had been on Friday. But still somehow brighter, because warmer? Or, perhaps it's that I got to see more of the sunrise again, which I'd been enjoying a month or two ago.
*First morning *I* experienced; yesterday, Sunday, I didn't wake up altogether until about 11:30am, and then stayed in bed reading until about 12:45pm. So when I got up to eat some breakfast, all of a sudden I realized that since we hadn't changed the clocks yet, it was actually almost 2pm. Oops.
Anyway, so, it makes me happy, even if it depresses![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
etrace. :-)
Also, Saturday afternoon we finally made the swap to the new(-to-me) computer thatetrace got ready for me back in September (but I'd been dragging my heels on ever since, despite the fact that the old box was running WindowsXP and getting progressively more insecure). And at the same time I sorted/filed/dealt with a ton of the paper crap that was sitting on my desk.
And Sunday afternoon we unpacked almost all of my kitchen stuff that's been sitting in boxes for 11 months, sorted out the garage-saleable from the "Oh I've been wanting this!", brought it up to the kitchen, washed and re-homed (or further de-duplicated) it, and also swapped out a bunch of older/worn/flimsier stuff in the existing kitchen inventory that it could replace. We're not done yet -- there could be at least another pass at this process in the kitchen alone, before we try to have an actual garage sale next month -- but it was major progress. And I'd been really anxious* about tackling it, too, which makes it even better to have accomplished.
*As in anxiety, not as in eagerness. There's been something oddly comforting about having all these things sitting boxed up down there without actually dealing with them: they're out of the (day-to-day) way but I haven't had to risk actually letting go of them -- or, in the case of the dishes, committing to trayfing them, but that's a topic for another post. But when I get into the proper frame of mind, I can think of it as "just stuff" and the letting-go of it as lightening my load (quote from link: "We seldom consider how negligible the consequences are when we run out of something or are unprepared"). And it's good for both of us to encourage each other in this process.
*First morning *I* experienced; yesterday, Sunday, I didn't wake up altogether until about 11:30am, and then stayed in bed reading until about 12:45pm. So when I got up to eat some breakfast, all of a sudden I realized that since we hadn't changed the clocks yet, it was actually almost 2pm. Oops.
Anyway, so, it makes me happy, even if it depresses
etrace. :-)Also, Saturday afternoon we finally made the swap to the new(-to-me) computer that
etrace got ready for me back in September (but I'd been dragging my heels on ever since, despite the fact that the old box was running WindowsXP and getting progressively more insecure). And at the same time I sorted/filed/dealt with a ton of the paper crap that was sitting on my desk.And Sunday afternoon we unpacked almost all of my kitchen stuff that's been sitting in boxes for 11 months, sorted out the garage-saleable from the "Oh I've been wanting this!", brought it up to the kitchen, washed and re-homed (or further de-duplicated) it, and also swapped out a bunch of older/worn/flimsier stuff in the existing kitchen inventory that it could replace. We're not done yet -- there could be at least another pass at this process in the kitchen alone, before we try to have an actual garage sale next month -- but it was major progress. And I'd been really anxious* about tackling it, too, which makes it even better to have accomplished.
*As in anxiety, not as in eagerness. There's been something oddly comforting about having all these things sitting boxed up down there without actually dealing with them: they're out of the (day-to-day) way but I haven't had to risk actually letting go of them -- or, in the case of the dishes, committing to trayfing them, but that's a topic for another post. But when I get into the proper frame of mind, I can think of it as "just stuff" and the letting-go of it as lightening my load (quote from link: "We seldom consider how negligible the consequences are when we run out of something or are unprepared"). And it's good for both of us to encourage each other in this process.