Since I have been without work, I have low key been in a spring cleaning phase of my life. Which nothing is wrong with that, (I think?) because if you know me, I’m not the tidiest of people. Today was good because I had eight moving boxes full of stuff in my parents’ living room and I got it down to 3 plus a filling folder fabric box. Maybe it was more than eight boxes now that I’m counting what I got rid of… I got two boxes of Goodwill donation clothing, three boxes going to the dump because it would overfill my regular garbage can not including the weekly trash that needs to go out, so a dump trip is in my near future. I am keeping three boxes and those are going upstairs near the lair (my room) and I have two boxes of things and one bag of things that I will try to sell or just give away. And one bag will go to Kyle’s house so I have tea and other goodies for him at his house.

So it was ten boxes and two big grocery bags. It took about four hours to go through and separate and I still have three boxes I am keeping which most small items need to go into a scrapbook to keep the memories of some of the things like high school awards, speech and debate Letters (yes, you can letter in debate just like you can in football or baseball, so jot that down), etc. I found love letters from my ex that I found, old birthday and graduation cards, the whole nine yards.

It is interesting reflecting and viewing what was at one point super important to me versus what I care about now. Reflection is positive, well it was today.

I tidied up my room and I started reading the book, “Make Time — How to focus on what matters everyday” written by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky a couple of days ago and I am obsessed. I won’t disclose how many pages I’ve read thus far because I am a super slow reader because I memorize and internalize what I read and analyze as I go so it will take me two days to read twenty pages not because I’m bad at reading (for Christ’s sake I read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott in the third grade)…. I just do all the extra things so it takes me like six years to read a book cover to cover.

I’m hoping this book won’t take me that long to read since it’s an easy read about frame working your time not in the constructs of society (society is seen as the “busy bandwagon-ers” and our technology that refreshes is known as the “infinity pool” aka never ending data) It was just interesting to know that I’m not alone in thinking that the socially normalized construct of time is Ludacris.

I showered and did my face routine this evening and now I’m reflecting on this day via this blog post and it feels good to have gotten a lot done today.

I’m going to leave you all on that high note so I can now continue reading my book lol.

Much love,

Dani