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Hopalong:
Oh, y'all.

There ain't no clutter on this BOARD, I'll tell you that!

Thank you. Totally hugful thank you.

Want to hear a funny...ahh, coincidence?
After reading your wonderful replies in mid-day and kind of rushing off to another topic thread, hmmm, just didn't want to really take this one in, let'sgoreadaboutsomebodyelseHops...I go home and BLAST through all the current pile, get them suckers written, stamped, recorded and paid and driven DIreckly to the P.O. this a.m....and short on sleep or not, I felt GREAT.

Ehh? See what you do??????????

love love love and thank you for
CB, boxes
PR, loving your hoardyhubby
Portia, the gifts of death and impermanence
TT, warning re. the Global Cat Domination
Helen, your dazzling, dazzling writing

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooo
A tired but less cluttered
Hops

sKePTiKal:
more humor:

after writing all that yesterday, I was so "fired up" I launched it all on hubby! I felt like I was "going where no man has gone before" and was going to unlock the deep dark secrets of "stuff"....

well - after adjusting his totally blown back hair (remember the old audio ads??) - he played along for a little while and while it really didn't go anywhere, it did completely change our ability to talk - and laugh - about the "stuff". Turns out the secret is:


it's just stuff!




This whole retirement thing - with him being around 24/7 - LORD, there's a lot of learning going on from both sides....

Hops - you're welcome - anytime! I think maybe I'm finding a funny bone I didn't know I had and it might just be useful.

Hopalong:
CB, I wanted to thank you too, for hearing the feelings I was having.
Just letting "I hear you" sink in for a moment...then visualizing you setting a place to honor the sunset...that freed a bit of calm to float in me too. I was sharing your peace. Thank you.

PR...blown-back hair? And still makes you laugh?
That's a keeper.

hugs
Hops

Hopalong:
And...new interim minister (just one person, this time, a woman who appears very nice from her site) is coming to look at my little rental wing next week. Today, I have a hired (!!!) cleaning lady coming to attack the first floor and hopefully give a great (if somewhat false) impression...

I really hope the minster takes it. Only issue is whether she'd be happy sharing a kitchen. I hope so! Otherwise I'll be renting to a stranger which is a bit more complicated, since I can't issue a formal lease....estate being in limbo and all that, it really has to be a "housemates' understanding."

But this is the clutter thread. I'm feeling a bit better about it but want to keep the awareness going.

I have been getting organized, and have a big deadline coming, so it will help to have the desk clear for the writing, and maybe the assignment won't be as stressful this time, if I don't feel as though my paperwork is going to fall around my head.

I'm also going to try to get exercise, even a little, every morning, and go to bed earlier. Really focus on being in balance for a while.

Head clutter, heart clutter.

love
Hops

sKePTiKal:
Ya know... I think there's something to the idea of "order (and peace, calm) out of chaos" that's really appealing (and maybe sometimes seems unattainable) - to me, anyway - when you grow up in a FOO that thrives on drama, chaos, violence or just plain "gotcha" mentality.

It's absurd, when I look at how easy it is to become programmed (conditioned via environment) to expect every single thing that happens - whether it's dust, ideas, statements by people in power, or even just typical life accidents - to be fraught with really high levels of anxiety, dread, out & out fear, or sysisphean burden and immobilization. Some of us succumb to this belief in "that the way it is" and some of us are like the little Dutch boy - constantly trying to hold back a flood of chaos. When I can convince myself that this isn't worth it... I find out that "flood" is really just a trickle and the chaos never really comes. For me, anyway.

Not for my FOO - but that's another thread.

Here's something to add to your peace & calm picture Hops... hubby's daughter and a friend are visiting and they brought their little ones. M has a grandson and the other babe is a sweet flirty little girl. They're both around 2 - and neither are "terrible". Just sitting around relaxing and playing, her mom was teaching her the word "happy"... are you happy, A? And she'd repeat, "happy"....

It struck me that something this simple could've made a profound difference, if it was a game I'd played as a tot, you know? Shouldn't we have commercials and media and music that simply offer the question: are you happy? and then point us in the direction to be, feel that along with everything else?? As a balm; as order out of chaos?

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