Walk-jogged 12 km today, at an average pace of 7:30/km.
Sadly, I didn’t do as well avoiding Coca Cola, downing three and a half large glasses of the stuff while working on shuffling boxes around the house today. I get annoyed and depressed while shifting stuff around, as well as hot and thirsty, so there was a double reason for the cola.
Before and after photos of one of the rooms in the house:
And a bonus view of the lanai (porch or covered deck) at sunset this evening:
While sorting through storage containers today I ran across the assortment of fountain pens I had purchased at Office Depot a couple of years ago and subsequently misplaced… and more or less forgotten about. In the bottom of the plastic bag was the original sale receipt. “A couple of years ago” was… apparently… 2008!
Jogged 5k (3 miles) after work again yesterday. That’s two days in a row. Let’s see if I can keep it going.
Morning weight was 204.4 pounds.
No new Buy-It-Now sales on the 30 eBay listings. Seven items have opening bids.
I really need to intensively scrutinize and ruthlessly purge the contents of all these stupid storage tubs.
Yesterday afternoon after work I took two boxes to the post office to mail. Two items sold on eBay. One was a box filled with nearly a hundred miniature Matchbox toy cars that I’d had since I was a little kid. I had a little bit of anxiety about selling that. I kept a dozen or so. I’m sure at some point there are a few in the lot that I’ll regret having parted with. But hey, I’m gonna have a real Rolls Royce here one of these soon days, right?
The second box was outdated computer software and some accompanying books. Happy to see that go.
That’s two sales so far out of the 32 items I listed over the weekend. I have low opening bids on five or six additional items. I’m not exactly raking in the big bucks, but it’s a start.
And that’s two large flat-rate boxes, or about the equivalent of one apple box, of stuff that is now GONE! The combined weight of the boxes was 33 pounds, so that’s 33 pounds of stuff I don’t have to shuffle around in the Room of Doom anymore.
I also jogged 5 km (3 miles) after work. I’m hoping to have enough ambition to do that again today. I weighed 205 pounds yesterday, down from a ridiculous 207 pounds the previous day. That’s just stupid. It’s well past time to drop that weight! So, clutter and fat, I gotta keep whittling away at both of ’em.
It’s only Tuesday and I’m already tired. I may be coming down with another cold.
I’ll be dropping off three boxes of books at the library as a donation on the way home from work.
From a very narrow angle, one side of The Room of Doom aka The Tiki Room almost looks like, well, like a Tiki Room rather than a storage unit belonging to a compulsive hoarder!
201.4 pounds – up a pound since last week.
Spent a couple of hours going through every folder in my file cabinet looking for the title to the PT Cruiser. Could not find it. Finally looked online. The City/County still indicates the “owner” of the car is First Hawaiian Bank, even though the loan was paid off about ten years ago.
Nothing is ever easy.
I telephoned the bank. I was told that I can bring proof if identification into the bank to request a copy of the title. Then I must take the duplicate title to the Department of Motor Vehicles to transfer ownership… to me.
Today I moved almost thirty plastic storage tubs from The Room of Doom into the neighbor’s garage for temporary storage. Thirty tubs. And yet the room is still almost impassible. This is starting to feel seriously crazy. I am going to go sort more boxes now. Boxes of books. I don’t know how I ended up with so many boxes of books. I purged books a couple of years ago. I thought I had greatly reduced the number of books. Apparently not.
I realized while moving the thirty-odd storage tubs that I must become significantly more ruthless in my purging. I need to reduce the volume of stuff by at least half.
We have an appointment with one real estate agent to look at our house on Saturday afternoon. Two others have not yet come back to us to schedule a time.
Spent most of the day shuffling through stuff in The Room of Doom. I had grand visions of getting through everything. Instead, I cannot actually see any signs of progress. I need to be more ruthless about discarding things. I need to be faster and better at organizing.
Fighting off despair. Or tying to. Despair is on the cusp of winning.
A total lunar eclipse is supposed to be visible here around midnight. Of course the sky is currently (6:30pm) completely overcast.
(R)October is not so rockin’, at least so far. I walked 17.75 kilometers, or a bit over ten and a half miles, yesterday. Today my weight is up by a pound and a half, to 201.6.
We have relatives visiting through Tuesday. That always means more and bigger meals than usual. I haven’t made any progress on decluttering or house repairs in days, or even weeks.
I hope to be heading out for another ten mile walk here in a few minutes. I need to work my way back into running. In my previous experience, I have found that walking, no matter how far, has little impact on weight loss. I gotta run to make it happen.
I also need to clean up my diet. That’s the most difficult part. Specifically, giving up Coca Cola is the most difficult part.
Today I had planned to work on my stuff, but I ended up cleaning and sorting other people’s stuff. My spouse volunteered to clean up a rental house for some relatives who were moving out. “We only left a few things,” they said.
Yeah, right. We spent all day over there, and we’re not finished yet.
On the bright side, they left about twenty plastic storage bins. At ten to fifteen dollars a pop, that’s worth two hundred dollars or so, money we will not have to spend to pack up our own stuff.
Also, they left two broken computers. I’ve been looking up parts online. Depending on what it will cost me to get a Windows operating system, the Toshiba laptop might be worth fixing, as replacement hard drives are fairly inexpensive for PC-based computers. Of course, I have to find out if the Toshiba will even fire up. “The charger is there with it.” Yeah, right, again. The charger that was with it was for a Canon camera and does not fit the computer. I ordered a replacement charger through Amazon a few minutes ago. It’s worth the fifteen dollar gamble. If the computer powers up, it will probably be worth replacing the defective hard drive… if that’s actually the problem. A new hard drive and updated RAM, plus the charger, will cost only a bit over a hundred dollars. Then I’ll have a short-term replacement computer for when my MacBook Pro finally stops working for good. It will be something to get me through until I can afford a new Mac… I have my eyes set on a desktop system this time… altho’ optimally with something like a small MacBook Air or Pro or maybe just an iPad for mobile purposes.
Anyway, the weekend is over and my house is more full than it was at the beginning, with twenty empty plastic storage bins and some broken computer parts now cluttering up the space… in addition to the pre-existing clutter.