Wouldn’t be Wednesday unless it was also hump day too. First real week back for 2023 and it’s shaping up to be a doozy. Lots of new paid work, returning clients, and cold, cold, bitterly cold breezes blowing around the streets. Not so hard that the lamp posts are touching the ground, but icy enough to let you know if there’s any room left in your abdomen for a couple of cold danglers, hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge. Brrr.
So due to the current temperatures of minus sixteen (as of 8:00am) this morning, no outdoor work in the shop is slated for today. I have some fine tuning of my cleaning to do out there at some point. Big boxes, and garbage items to get tossed.
I’d like to throw a bunch of broken random stuff away this spring, but that may require a trip to the dump, as I don’t think I can get it all to the curb for the weeks we have garbage pick up. My modest post holidays clean up has not yielded the amount of waste I thought it would. But I was trying to be kinder, and attempt sorting & storage over a straight up purge. Plus I didn’t empty all the cabinets like I did last year. Not that I believe there to be anywhere near the same accumulation of junk that there was prior to both kids starting school. I had been so pressed for time I just lodged junk out of sight, to be dealt with later. And, that later came and it was all dealt with. Something along the lines of four or five garbage bags worth, plus another five or six recycling bins of paper and cardboard we’d been holding on to for one reason or another. Pack rats. Sometimes I feel like we are hoarders with all the cardboard and plastic bits we manage to keep lying around. I’m still getting rid of birthday & Christmas present debris. Will probably still be doing so when Valentines day comes, that and then Easter too! Can’t escape it!
Not to mention my front porch is littered with “cool” looking sticks, and rocks, and other such items my children pocket when out and about to bring home and fawn over. Smaller rocks I don’t mind, we can look at and categorize shiny rocks, but sticks and grasses or leaves I could do without an additional stockpile of.
If I recall we are about a week away from the Big 400 Day benchmark. Four hundred seems like a lot. Being a week out, it doesn’t seem so big, but to start again, from zero that would be a challenge. I guess now that I’m in the thick of it, I’ll keep going until I miss a day. Not sure what else to do. Part of me would like to substitute the writing for working out. But I’m absolutely certain I would not achieve a daily workout of any sort for more than just a few days at a stretch. If we ever win any money, I’d like to invest in a home gym with free weights, and bench/squat rack. To be able to squeeze in a meaningful work out in the comfort of your own home must be a real thrill. Stinky, but thrilling nonetheless.
Duty calls. Gotta return some e-mails. Ciao Bella.
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