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Post by desposito on Jul 19, 2024 13:52:37 GMT -5
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Retrieve dry laundry from yesterday 10 minutes in basement Make water bottles for downstairs Delete 50 emails
Diane
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Post by desposito on Jul 19, 2024 15:00:00 GMT -5
I realized I never gave my report on the fiction book I read about a hoarder. The book is called The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton by Eleanor Ray. I approached it with trepidation because...well, you know. The book did have some cliches, but, sometimes cliches are cliches because they're true. It was told both in present time and a period of the past where Amy has something traumatic happen. The trauma, of course, causes her to start hoarding. In the present time a new family of neighbors moves in next door, and this directly and indirectly causes her to look back at the trauma and to look at her current life. In the middle of the book it looked like it was going in a particular direction and that it would end with Amy being perfectly "cured" of her hoarding overnight--at one point a guy shows interest in her and the next time she looks at her much loved hoard of empty wine bottles she says something like--they're pretty, but maybe they can all go in recycling tomorrow. ![B-|](//storage.proboards.com/1879832/images/bdX70PoyyYRu8cOxOyGH.png) But it really didn't end that way, I was happy with the ending. And, it's important to say this book was written sort of tongue in cheek--it's not serious fiction, many parts were funny, and I loved some of the characters.
However--I looked at the blurb about the author, and here's what it says--she decided to write a book about hoarding because of her very young son's habit of saving things. Well, I can tell you for sure, this woman either is or was a hoarder, or was very close to a hoarder, because she got so many things right. There's no way someone could read an article about hoarders and then write this book. So maybe she grew up in a hoarding family and didn't want to say that, but this author knows hoarding one way or another, there's more to the story than having a child that likes to save things.
So, I would recommend this book if you can ignore a couple of improbable plot twists, I ended up really liking it.
Diane
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Post by puppybox on Jul 19, 2024 15:05:08 GMT -5
I had to get up early and the Labrador said actually you should get up an hour earlier than that to feed me. I’m tired.
Walked a few dogs. German shep arrived. Man owner stepped inside my apartment-embarrassing. I said something half true about stuff in the front hall being on its way out. I knew he was horrified but he didn’t say anything. He’s used to a house in the suburbs with a pool so I bet his house is tidy too. Oh well. People arent wrong to think it’s cluttered and grungy, it IS cluttered and grungy. Letting the bad feelings flow through me/around me like water.
Just barely fit all the dogs food in the freezers. Managed and walked the 2 dogs together. Seems like it’s ok.
Went to the bank and did 2 things with passport I had to. Come to think of it I didn’t double check the tellers work which was a mistake. Too late now. Oh well.
Starving now, and have one more client to walk.
I bought a plant. Ficus elastica tinneke
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Post by puppybox on Jul 19, 2024 15:07:46 GMT -5
Oh that’s pretty cool about the book Diane. Maybe you should post that again somewhere else on this site as well.
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Post by desposito on Jul 19, 2024 16:37:53 GMT -5
Man owner stepped inside my apartment-embarrassing
That's okay, use that as motivation. Maybe not right now, it sounds like you have your hands full of dogs. But when you have time. Do you have too much stuff? Is it all stuff you're attached to, or is it more a lack of time/energy/motivation to go through it?
I'm going to repot something now--probably 4 tiny huernia zebrina cuttings that I've had in 2" pots, trying to get them to root. I don't know if they've rooted but they still look alive so I assume they have--I will put them all in one bigger pot. I feel compelled to say, since I've been talking recently about knowing I have too many plants--these cuttings were not purposely cut off a plant, they were little segments that fell off when moving the plants around. I couldn't bear to throw them out.
After that it will be time to think about dinner.
Diane
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Post by ohblondie on Jul 19, 2024 17:00:16 GMT -5
Worked in my room a bit, I got clothes hung up and shirts are arranged by sleeve length and color. I have one more pile to deal with, I got tshirts folded and put away. I have another pile to donate.
now a well deserved rest
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Post by desposito on Jul 19, 2024 18:44:30 GMT -5
I have another pile to donate
The huernia cuttings only had a few very tiny roots starting, but I repotted them, hopefully they will be okay. I also repotted a haworthia, I don't know the variety because it came in a set of 3 unlabelled tiny plants in tiny pots, they all look like zebra haworthia but not as clearly striped--maybe a hybrid. One of the 3 was repotted a long time ago, and there's one left to do, hopefully soon. The one that's left to do is actually a little clump of babies but I will not separate them and put one in each pot, I will just repot it as it is--maybe tomorrow.
After dinner it will be time to get ready for bed. Good night all, see you tomorrow in the weekend thread!
Diane
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Post by puppybox on Jul 19, 2024 20:19:40 GMT -5
Diane, I bet your garden is epic. I do feel a bit unseen by your questions that were supposed to be helpful. I don’t need motivation at the moment, I’ve been on quite the roll. Letting the man in and being embarrassed was a triumph, of having improved both the place enough and achieving mastery of not letting feelings control me. of course I hadn’t explained the last part and possibly not the first part, I realise now as I type this.
I walked uphill dog, ate healthy grocery store food and practiced music. I need to walk these monsters and then wash hair. But I’d like to get something domestic done tonight. Not sure what. Can’t do laundry. Maybe kitchen something. Or pile of papers in wall thing.
I have to take out dog food to defrost
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Post by desposito on Jul 20, 2024 8:43:53 GMT -5
I don’t need motivation at the moment, I’ve been on quite the roll.
Yes,I can see that from the fact that you're posting again after a long time, and that you're accomplishing things. So I guess what I mean is, use it as "ongoing" motivation. You're looking at the incident as a triumph, and it was, since you're not letting it discourage you from doing more. But you probably did wish your place looked better when someone saw it, and I think it helps to remember that feeling in the future when the work is hard and we don't really want to do it. And those times always come since it's a long process.
Diane
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Post by puppybox on Jul 20, 2024 9:27:54 GMT -5
It doesn’t help me to be treated this way.
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Post by desposito on Jul 20, 2024 9:30:13 GMT -5
Okay puppybox, sorry, I won't comment.
Diane
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