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Post by lostchild on Jan 29, 2015 17:16:25 GMT -5
Desk is in place. Now to start transferring stuff from old to new. Faced paying a past due bill.
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Post by wit on Jan 29, 2015 21:26:12 GMT -5
Well done lostchild! Thanks for your comment, I did take it easy this afternoon.
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Post by Unswamping on Jan 29, 2015 21:51:24 GMT -5
Need to do some paperwork and i am avoiding it right now by browsing the forum. Ive been practicing what my therapist taught me about dealing with the paperwork. First, all week, i have been going into the office and just taking deep, calming breathes. Finally this morning i was able to go in and bag/ box all the papers that were burying my desk. I made the appointment for my car inspection for tomorrow morning. Tonight i need to renew my car registration since i will need that for tomorrow. I need to balance my checkbook so that i know how much money i have to pay for the inpsection and any repairs. This has to be done tonight as my appointment is early in the morning. I have a january inspection sticker so i cant reschedule the appointment.
So im posting this, then im going in there, putting on the cd dr d made for me and getting these two things done.
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Post by jendela on Jan 29, 2015 23:54:04 GMT -5
Well done Unswamping, getting your desk cleared off ready to tackle the paperwork. Good luck in tackling the other tasks.
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Post by Unswamping on Jan 30, 2015 0:50:15 GMT -5
Wow i cant believe it i finally got it done. Why do i leave stuff for the last minute, stuff never goes smoothly when im rushed.
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Post by Unswamping on Jan 30, 2015 14:03:20 GMT -5
This is funny. Went out to clean the snow off my car this morning and go take it for inspection. The inspection that i thought was january. clearing the windshield, i saw that it is actually a February inspection! I took it in any way, which was good because it failed inspection and it is going to cost me more than i thought (i was pretty sure it wasnt going to pass, i just didnt think its was going to be that much). So its kind of funny that i got my car inspected a month ahead of time. Its a first for me. I generally wait until the last minute to get it inspected.
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ellie
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Post by ellie on Feb 1, 2015 2:45:12 GMT -5
I don't exactly know what to say. it's been so long since I posted. I have squalor that makes me feel bad -- and undoing it makes me feel crazy insane terrible. and God I want it out, it's stopping me up. trauma. um, yeah.
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Post by wynken on Feb 1, 2015 2:53:50 GMT -5
Remember to breathe ellie. If you can manage to pick up one piece of trash / garbage / rubbish / food wrapper / rotten food or whatever, put it in a bag and escort it from the premises, no matter that the whole lot of it is scary, then you can be proud of yourself, you are fighting back against the squalor and the trauma. Just think of the one thing, and manage to do that. Do whatever is easiest.
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Post by imamess on Feb 1, 2015 10:42:33 GMT -5
I am going to face the last trauma corner in my house. It is a nice wood two drawer lateral filing cabinet. The top is piled up so I can't put my printer on it. There are piles in front and on both sides so I can't open the drawers. I have to do something about this and I don't want to. I want to and I don't want to. I am removing one box from the pile today and deal with the contents. That's all I have to do today, just one box.
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Post by Unswamping on Feb 1, 2015 13:14:49 GMT -5
You can do it imamess! Just one bit at a time.
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Post by wynken on Feb 1, 2015 19:40:19 GMT -5
I'm trying again to follow FL and her zones around the house. Hoping to get over myself a little bit at a time. I'm not sure there is a trauma thing in this week's lot, just the allergy to working constructively, following directions, and facing up to things. Then my lately thing of Having (or hopefully not having) a reaction to having done the something. Around front door today. There are the long deceased guinea pigs' bowls healed in dirt. Ever waiting to be donated. Maybe its amnesty day.
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Picked up 2 ceramic bowls, 1 double plastic, 1 dead pot plant. into the wheely bin. Went again and tossed a 'vase' dd made in hs that she had wanted tossed, that I had insisted on keeping, with the gardening gloves tucked inside. None of it broke in the tossing?
Enough and shudder was my response. I'll have another squirmish later. clean where it all was.
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Post by imamess on Feb 2, 2015 3:32:07 GMT -5
Yesterday I not only picked up one box from my trauma corner, I cleaned out two boxes and a big pile of papers. I was sorting the papers on the kitchen table when db called and invited me for lunch. I didn't get home till dark and my back was hurting again, so I'll try again today when the sun comes up. Today I want to finish sorting the papers and putting them away and deal with the contents of one more box. Just one box at a time!
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Post by danny15 on Feb 2, 2015 11:23:42 GMT -5
Warrior Kimmy I am at the second page of this thread and just crying.
My whole house is a traumatic reminder of the best memories of my life and how everything was shattered and destroyed and continually sliding despite my half-assed efforts.
What really sucks is I think I am doing better and then I get a nasty reminder that nope I was only kidding myself.
I'll probably feel stronger in a few hours but right now I just had to pour it out.
Thank you so, so much for your honesty, your understanding and for continuing the fight against the most crushing problem of hoarding.
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Post by wit on Feb 2, 2015 12:04:19 GMT -5
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Post by angela on Feb 2, 2015 14:17:24 GMT -5
Oh big danny15. It is so hard sometimes, this problem of ours. And complicated and painful. It is a condition/disease/syndrome that we are fighting against together. You can do it, a baby-step at a time. And even if you aren't able to move at all for a while, that's okay too, come and post and hang out. There's no comparing, no person's path is the same as another's. We're just getting this part of our life experience out into the open where we all can deal with it in whatever way we are able.
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