JudithKD "..it's the try that counts. Win, lose, or draw

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next steps 4.0 9 months ago

Outstanding items are below. The “main” goals of the multi-step items are first, the steps needed to accomplish or finish it follow.

IN PROCESS (2 ITEMS)*
Mail the rest of the rolling file cabinet to PioneerSpirit:

the wheels went in a small box ‘o stuff last week. the way to ship the long pieces arrived today. The two other pieces will hopefully go out TOMORROW! 2/11/08

If I can find the address and get my act together tonight, they’ll go out tomorrow 2/14,we’ve had various issues here, but last night/today it was ice, freezing rain, snow all day. DH did NOT want me to go anywhere, so I haven’t!

Outstanding:
Get the other new bookcases out of the kithen and into my office:

Remove the white melamine bookcase that’s in DH’s office,
Remove the large tool chest from the kitchen,
Move the dresser from my office to the kitchen,
(or get rid of it) 1/14/08

Pack the stuff in the bookcase that’s in my office that’s going to DH’s.
Move the bookcase, and
Set up the new bookcases and unpack the stuff to got in them.

Get the permanent base for the light table and get it set up in my office.

Take the folding chairs and footstool to the antique or consignment shop for sale.

Put the small table (when you find it!) into the kitchen.

Put the big table into the living room or possibly sell it?

Put the benches back into the van.

Get rid of the van.

Get the pocket table (retail table) from the attic to the dump. [Almost emptied 10/23]

Get the two J hooks hung from the roof joists in the attic, so we can put a closet pole between them and hang (out of the way!) our out-of-season clothes and/or(?) bedding).

Organize the consolidated files so you can find something!

Get rid of the boxes of papers, FILE the stuff already!

Wrap presents. Send off presents, as needed.

Clean up the attic, this will make almost all the rest of this easier!

jkd



Comments:

SG is thinking of a great general who subdued the eastern barbarians

This is

well planned; wow.

JudithKD "..it's the try that counts. Win, lose, or draw

It's what has to happen first.

My house is so crowded full ‘o stuff that in order to do C you must first do A, then B, then….

This is version 4.0 because I have been working on this list for months. The other versions of this are also in this goal. I’ve been working on this for MONTHS…and I slowly chip away at it now and again.

Thanks for the encouragement!

jkd

Ironic...

my place is a bit sparse, and I’ve started thinking maybe it is o.k. to ADD some things to make it homier…

But I don’t really know how, and ‘too much’ of anything is too hard on my brain, so my tendency is to want to have nothing.

I think it is great that you have an action plan like this. It allows you identify progress with each small step that you take!

I think it is a wonderful approach!

JudithKD "..it's the try that counts. Win, lose, or draw

Well, there's various

aspects to this:

1.It’s camoflauge. It’s hard to tell what’s important to me as there’s so much of it.

2. It gave me, what I’ve realized now, is my “last dictch” defense.

When someone asked me why I didn’t have kids, as I would have been a good mother, the first thing out of my mouth was, “I’m too messy.”

When a man I’ve known for years and dated a while back told me he’d expected to marry me, my first response was: “I’m too messy.”

Also, when:

a friend of mine asked if DH and I would adopt him and his young son; my counselor told me I was high functioning….

It also gives (gave?) me an excuse to keep people out of my space. Something I had very little control over before I was on my own.

Finally, it’s just habit.

jkd


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