Intro

I entered middle age a few years ago...okay, a little more than a few. Our daughters are 28 and 26. After they left, I cautiously redecorated their bedrooms. I did the usual, donated "Lucky" brand jeans (left from 3rd grade) and stuffed animals to a local thrift store. Next, I threw away countless plastic bags from "The Gap" and other retailers. Some of them included various amounts of change, which of course I took as my housekeeping fee. Every $6.40 helps!

I slowly bought new furniture items that I liked - a futon and frame, small roll-top desk, area rugs and lamps. One room was starting to resemble my new "office" which would double as a guest room when necessary. One morning as I was getting ready to leave for work, I heard (and felt) a very large boom-crash. I cautiously walked upstairs to find the dust clearing and about half of the ceiling of my new room on the floor. Ah, the joys of owning an antique house...

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Okay, I'm driven

If anyone had asked me a month ago if I consider myself to be a motivated, A-type person, my answer would have been, "Huh? Have you met me? I have known since college days that I work best under pressure. Don't especially like it, but I know it. I never thought of myself as driven - until I started the liquidation of the "pantry." Once it was begun, a day hasn't gone by without my working at it. Last night, I had planned to take the evening off and wrap some gifts, but no, I had to do another shelf.

Last week, when I listed all the different functions that the little room had performed, I completely forgot that for a few years in the 1990s, it was my "Mary Kay room." Yes, I sold Mary Kay for 14, count 'em, fourteen years. I remembered last night when I found a stack of sales slips and a display case. I know, it may seem weird that a 12 X 10 X 8 inch piece of plastic could be hidden for so long. What can I say? I tried to ignore that little room, but it just wouldn't go away.

The clearing of this cubicle should be completed tomorrow, and then the rebuilding will commence. This is where my little file cabinet will be kept and I will once again have a place to put all those papers that I have to keep but would rather not. Stay tuned!

4 comments:

Nik said...

I love the Mary Kay facial astringent you gave me!! It is great! Also, I think you are more type A than you think--and it's a good thing!!!

Gail said...

I probably need to clarify that I did not forget that I was a Mary Kay consultant, I just forgot that all of the products were housed there.

Tiki Bar Living said...

Gail, I love your new blog! Way to go girl! I've been doing the same thing - downsizing! And now that I've downsized, I'm spending the winter going through drawers and closets that I downsized in the summer and doing it again! In some ways it's tough, in others it's freeing.

Gail said...

I can already tell that I'll have to "Downsize" more and more as time goes by.