I am sorry you were awake, means. Sine I am all, cleaning likes carrots, I will say that this cleaning is so physically tiring that I am sleeping through the night pretty well.
I heard from my landlord and they are happy with my progress and to inspect next week as well as rekeying my door ( I lost my key about 5 years ago). Yesterday I mostly rested and just reset my living in the apartment (although I ended up cleaning out a dresser and also resetting my soap dish and a tile). Tomorrow the cleaners come!
Today I have opened up the back porch, which was a repository for junk. My goal here right now is just to get it to neat junk and deal with it later most of the stuff is already boxed- it is books, and then there was other stuff I shoved out there to clean my house. So I want to take care of the shoved stuff, straighten and dust the boxes and move on. This will save me this weekend, as I am seriously hoping for a couple days to actually relax and get ready to go back to work. I may take some things up to the attic, because that seems like more reasonable storage for items than a porch.
My mattress in a box is coming today, but I will put it in the attic for now, until the space is cleared tomorrow and I can clean the carpets before putting down the bed base.
This is just to hold myself accountable for the back porch today. My get up and go is flagging a bit.
Yay Sophia! You are doing an amazing job! And inspired me to do a bit more cleaning for my Halloween guy's night than I otherwise would have. (I doubt my friends will notice that I've scrubbed my kitchen and bathroom countertops, but I'll know!)
My analyst has been out sick for two weeks, and I've been anxious as hell.
But last night, for some reason, I slept for 10 hours! What did I do to deserve this?
Guys, I'm anxious about being so calm.
Guys, I'm anxious about being so calm.
No, I totally get that. When I hit a patch where I'm not worried about anything, it makes me anxious, because it doesn't feel right to not be worried about *something.*
Tom, sometimes when I'm going through a rough patch and not sleeping well, my body will somehow just decide that I'm so exhausted that I'm going to get a good night's sleep regardless. Could that be what happened to you last night?
Tomorrow the cleaners come!
Double holiday!
Get on that porch, Sophia! Then you can have a well-earned rest. Just you and your kitty.
No, I totally get that. When I hit a patch where I'm not worried about anything, it makes me anxious, because it doesn't feel right to not be worried about *something.*
This! I assume I must be forgetting something, and get all anxious about what it is I've dropped the ball on.
Sophia, thanks for posting about this process. You've inspired me to be more proactive (when I get my stuff back) about going through and getting rid and not letting stuff go the way I have been.
Tom, first I have to say that your work with therapy is one of the things that is inspiring me. I think, if Tom can do, Maybe ai can do it too.
I think sometimes anxiety is so exhausting your body just has to sleep and let it go in order to go on. I would take it right now (although personally I am incredibly anxious, and then not and then anxious)
The back porch is not great, but good enough to pass inspection I think. Maria is coming Saturday to help, and since she is good at sorting and purging, this may be a good project for her. It is a bunch of boxes from when I moved over 10 years ago. I took out nine bags of trash to do this.
I am also really grateful to the therapist. I told her how I still hadn't told my mother, and she was like "Do you ever have to tell your mother. that sounds terrible!" I think she gets me.
Monday I can get my kitty spayed, and I am also so excited about that. I had put that off because of the cleaning, but your generous donations means I can do it, and by Monday, I think it will be clean enough for her recovery.
I sort of wish I could take one more week off, but it makes me too nervous I will lose my job.
