More letting go

Here I am again. I know this must be getting boring but letting go is such a hard thing, I feel like I need to document it. It is just amazing to me the things I have hung onto.

So, the task list continues to get worked on. Yesterday, I bought bed raisers to raise my bed up off the floor so that I could fit a storage box under it and so that the bedskirt wouldn't drag on the floor. Been meaning to do this for some time. The only problem is that the ones I bought are six inches high so the bed is really tall now. I have to go back to get the 3 inch ones and see how those work. The dogs are mildly amused by the new bed.

I also got a new mat for the front door so that the 'Noel' doormat could be retired to the Christmas storage until next year. And bought a new shredder since the old one is gummed up in the middle and only shreds half the documents. I am now ready to start attacking the filing in my room again.

And finally to the letting go part. Today, I drove over to ASL and surrendered my old monitor which doesn't work any more. That was the easy part. Happy to get rid of it. The other thing was my first computer - a CB laptop with about a 120Mhz hard drive. Couldn't load anything on that now. Anyway, it stopped working long ago. I bought it about 14 years ago to take to Japan with me. The guy at the center was amazed that they had laptops that small and portable then. Of course, it cost somewhere around $3 - $4,000 I think. Anyway, it is gone and that is one more thing out of my house.

I am still working on the clothes and hoping to bring a load to Career Closet next week and get them out of the house. Then there are all of the books. I think it might be time for some of them to go too.

And, amazingly, cleaning out my underwear drawer and found another bag with bras that still had tags and I had never worn. I don't know what it was about me and bras but for a while there, it seems like I was buying a lot of them and stashing them here and there. As I have cleaned things out, I have found many bags with bras in them with the tags still on. Most I have returned or am giving to career closet but these still have the receipt so I am going to try and return them. What a weird obsession. I wonder if it was some sort of premonition of the impending mastectomy. Who knows? Strange.

So thats where I am at. The house is ever so gradually getting into a better order. I have now been able to put my painting and jewelry supplies into the closet in the yoga room and know exactly what is in that closet and everything is usable and current. Amazing! After taking the clothes to career closet, that room will be finished except for some shelves and finishing up the frame on the mirror. I will be so glad to be able to do my yoga and other exercises in there again. And, of course, it gets well used when I have visitors. As for painting, the light doesn't seem quite right and there isn't room for a desk for my easel and paint supplies so they stay on the kitchen table for now. Maybe there will be room in the study later.

Now, this is even boring me so I am just going to wander off to bed now.