{"id":169,"date":"2014-08-23T20:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puuikibeach.com\/chamberofchaos\/?p=169"},"modified":"2014-08-23T20:28:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:28:33","slug":"day-thirty-a-rough-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"DAY THIRTY: A Rough Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up feeling irritable, frustrated, and depressed and the feelings just got worse as the morning progressed. I started to jot down a list of things to accomplish this weekend. I expected the list to have three or so things on it. Quickly it expanded to over twenty “must do” items.<\/p>\n

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List 23 August 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Then I went in to take a shower. When I stepped on the scale I saw this:<\/p>\n

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Scale 23 August 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Or in stone, if you’re so inclined:<\/p>\n

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Scale 23 August 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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There’s so much to do and I accomplish so little each day that getting anywhere with anything feels utterly hopeless. So I sulked. Instead of exercising, as I had intended, I ate sugary breakfast cereal and drank Pepsi Cola.<\/p>\n

After about two hours I started working on exterior window frames: scraping, sanding, patching, and painting with primer (as listed above). The “tiki room,” the “guest room,” and the “kitchen” windows are more or less done except for a final color coat of paint… and adding weatherstripping… and maybe replacing the screening on the “guest room” windows because it has more holes than I thought, which will necessitate buying more screen material, so that’s a task for some other time. So I marked off three items from that list.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, inside<\/em> the house, the room I’m trying to declutter, the room from which I have removed ten or more boxes of mass <\/em>in the last couple of weeks, is more crowded and disorganized than ever. Things are stacked in precarious piles. Touching one thing causes a domino-like chain reaction of boxes and bits and pieces of junk collapsing into a chaos of clutter. This is part of what set me off this morning, when I inadvertently triggered one of these crapquakes by simply reaching for a pencil.<\/p>\n

I’ve been trying to “change my life” for thirty days now, and so far I’m seeing absolutely ZERO improvement. If anything, I’m more frustrated and depressed than before, I feel like I’m surrounded by more clutter than I was when I started… and I’m fatter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up feeling irritable, frustrated, and depressed and the feelings just got worse as the morning progressed. I started to jot down a list of things to accomplish this weekend. I expected the list to have three or so things on it. Quickly it expanded to over twenty “must do” items.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2,12,7,13,16,9,3,8,25],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-days-2","tag-100-days","tag-decluttering","tag-diy","tag-failure","tag-fitness","tag-frustration","tag-goals","tag-home-repair","tag-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}