Day Three of Nine: The Breakdown

I have hit the "Oh, dear, what the heck have I done?" point of my break a bit early. This usually happens about three days from now, but I have hit it early!!

This is not the point I want to be at right now. I am looking at the things I have been working on and things look worse than when I started. It is a bit defeating, but I am getting things together - I think!

I cleared off my desk yesterday. I also moved the office supply boxes to my newly cleared desk so I have two empty-ish shelves that I can fill with other stuff from a different part of my home. I rearranged my pens in my upstairs desk. That led to sorting through things in my other upstairs desk. I am currently feeling overwhelmed with my life and my environmental choices and the amount of stuff that I still have to do. Ugh.

I will need to be upstairs again in about two hours when my sister calls me on her morning commute.

I am not wanting to be upstairs right now, but I don't want to be downstairs either. I want to be somewhere else - my finished home. I just can't seem to bring it from where I am right now into the future! 

I bought a new robot vacuum yesterday. It arrives tomorrow and will take over the upstairs care. It includes a mopping feature that will help me with my bathroom and kitchen floors. Huey, my current robot vacuum will be relocating downstairs to help me maintain the floors down here. So, I need to have some clear floors for him to vacuum. There's my motivation! Cleaning things up for my robot vacuums' happiness. (The new vacuum's name is Muffy, by the way!) 

Motivation often comes from strange places around here. I might find a bit of a prod in trying to find something (still can't find my box cutters or my Forever stamps, by the way). I still can't seem to figure out how I want things to run, but I have found a place for my COVID tests to reside in my house. Now I am looking for places for everything else in my life to fit in neatly, just as my motivation is taking a nosedive.

Today's thing to do is to start the dishes. I have run out of forks, so it is time to unload the dishwasher, reload the dishwasher, and then run the dishwasher. That's it. That's all I HAVE to do today. So, I am going to get going with all of this. See you tomorrow...

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