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Post by michelle on Dec 22, 2017 15:15:09 GMT
We are a group working to declutter our spaces. Please feel free to share your goals, projects, ideas, revelations or challenges facing you as you work toward your own goals. Also feel free to copy and past this intro, use our "CLUTTERBUSTERS" Title for the day to start the thread if you don't see it started.
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Post by zenamidievel on Dec 22, 2017 20:59:07 GMT
Good Afternoon,
Bit of a later morning start here. Kids and I decorated Gingerbread houses yesterday. The houses are smaller, imagine an invitation sized card for the rectangle base, they are about 5-6 inches high. I'll attach DD's as a profile pic. The church was pretty large, about 9" long and 12" high at the tip of the steeple. As I did not construct that one properly due to mismeasuring the roof, there were near cave ins while attempting to frost, decorate, but it's standing!
TaDas:
-laundry rebooted x3
-candy put away from the houses, table cleaned wiped down,swept up candy bits/sugar/kitchen
-wrapped DH's present, awkward size/shape
-vacuumed dining room area, entryway, formal LR, part of den
-vacuum away
-one load of laundry put away
DD and I are to go out and about together. Must be ready by 1:30. Had discussion this AM about being, "functionally lazy", a term coined by sister in Reno. Basically, please get up, eat, put yourself together so at least you're ready to go do something, if something comes up, then sit around on your arse and stare at your phone all day. Sigh...In so many words.
Have a great day, more later. HOping to bake today. Trying to decide what to bake to take to DH's cousin party for gifts tomorrow night. Will be fun. T Hinking about trying to make mini pastries with the Kringle Danish recipe DS and I did last year for his French class extra credit, they can be cream cheese, fruit or walnut.
Z.
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Post by michelle on Dec 23, 2017 0:46:17 GMT
Z, The interior decoration scheme sounds wonderful! IMO decorating is beyond fun. That gingerbread house turned out so cute!
Got through my annual physical again--so glad and I scheduled it for late October next year so it wouldn't be connected to the holidays. Had lunch with DD and took Luna to physical therapy. Also got a couple of errands done in town and a few things done at the office. This is a nice time of year since reconnecting with friends etc is something I enjoy.
Sometimes I feel like I am functioning in a different solar system than my family members LOL. I read a book where the wife just walked off during a family vacation. They wanted to file a missing person report but since she always took all the pictures they did not have a picture of her, didn't know how tall she was, the color of her eyes on and on. I have read that book three times. All ends up perfect (of course). They are reunited in the end.
Possibly DH and I will go to town tomorrow but I would just like to thoroughly clean the house and do a few more Christmas things.
Hope you are having a good night!!!
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Post by zenamidievel on Dec 23, 2017 3:46:32 GMT
Hmmm...that book sound interesting. Many of us have fantasies about "running away". I fantasize about having my own apartment, always have. Even when I was a teen I'd have my own place! I'm glad you're getting to see friends. It is a fun/festive time of year.
We eventually got going here but had to skip one sort of planned volunteer activity because we were too late, we were not formally committed tho. She did drop off cards to a retirement home for them to hand out. Shopped, had a nice dinner together. DS was off doing his thing and DH went to the cabin. I'll not be returning to any shopping mall/center until after Christmas is over, and I mean it.
Home baking now, forgot the baking soda in the first batch of cookies, luckly they still taste great, they are just not "lookers" I'll do some thin striped powdered sugar glaze to dress them up and try not to make more mistakes.
I had way less candy to put away this year as I'd given a lot of it to my friend when she came over to assemble houses. Then I tossed some really bad stuff, so now it' all pretty manageable amount. These are decoration only houses, we don't eat them, so left over candy can be used next year.
The room looks cute, it will be even better when the curtains get here. She still needs to migrate more stuff back in there. We'll work on it tomorrow.
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