Category Archives: 100 Days

17.

The WASC accreditation visitation is finally finished at work. That should help alleviate some of the work-related stress… and the work-related, time-wasting busy-work we’ve been doing. Now I need to get caught up on IEP plans, get ready for SBAC testing, and, y’know, actually teach the kids some stuff.

12.

Put up a “for sale” sign in front of the house. Cleaned and did some minor repairs around the house. No calls regarding the house.

There’s still too much clutter, despite now having filled the 8x7x5 storage unit and donating or discarding what seems like a lot of stuff.

11.

I quickly began to wonder if Clutter Busting by Brooks Palmer (©2009) was some kind of joke. The book reads as though it were written by Stuart Smalley, a character from the old Saturday Night Live program. “You’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggone it, you don’t need this stuff to feel special!” That line pretty well sums up the two-hundred pages of this tepid book. In fact, this book was so anti-inspirational it almost made me want to go out and buy something in order to feel better.

At work today I helped toss out a lot of stuff from the counseling office, including three old electric typewriters — not “cool” old typewriters, but hideous beige plastic typewriters from the late-1980s or early 1990s that were broken and missing their power cords and ribbon cartridges. We also tossed out three computer towers that had stopped working years ago, and multiple dust-covered boxes of miscellaneous outdated forms, policy manuals, and worn-out office supplies.

Still no action on the house listing, even though the listing has been picked up by most of the local real estate web sites.

8. MLS 201502473

MLS #201502473

See it here:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/67-231A-Kahaone-Loop_Waialua_HI_96791_M86691-00664

Or here:

http://propertysearch.hicentral.com/HBR/ForSale/?/201502473

Or here:

http://nedandcindyhawaiirealestate.com/idx/mls-201502473-67_231a_kahaone_loop_waialua_hi_96791

Or here:

http://www.congressrealty.com/Buyers/Our-Listings/433170.aspx

 

7.

Monday. A holiday from work. Yay for that, anyway.

Spent, or wasted, the entire day going through stuff. Hauled another load to the storage unit. Tossed a number of things into the trash. The house and The Room of Doom are still full of crap.

And I still weigh a shade over 200 pounds.

Finished reading Clutter Free: Finally and Forever (1995) by Don Aslett. This book offers a collection of excerpts from comments Mr. Aslett has received over the years from people dealing with clutter. Occasionally amusing and perhaps somewhat helpful, I did not find this book quite as inspiring as the Lose 200 Pounds book I read last week. Still, I keep plugging along. Yet as I said, despite both tossing things and “temporarily” placing too many bins, boxes, and tubs to count into storage, I can barely walk into the now completely disorganized Room of Doom.