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Haa I am making up for lost posts... I had the opportunity to catch up with Meri tonight.
I have missed our daily interactions. Since the 23 of March, never a day went by without knowing where the other was. The last few months have found us caught up in our "real" and we simply have not had the chance.
It is interesting the strength of the friendships we forged in the early days of the SS. For me many of them are of extreme importance.
This last few weeks has been spent catching up and completing tasks that have been left undone.
One of my goals is to remove anything that causes me stress. So many little things that are on the constant "I should" list. I am attemping to remove all of them prior to the Thailand trip.
I have a bar in the great room and I had yet to install the lights. I did this earlier in the week but was needing a new piece to complete it. The other thing I needed to do was repaint one of the walls.
All my North facing walls are black. I also used flat paint so they scuff and installing the shelves last year had scuffed them. No problem I would just repaint. Fast forward to one year later.
See what I mean by tasks left not done that cause stress!
The other thing that was required was breaking into my storage locker. Long story of doing something in a hurry without thought.
Needless to say, last night I was successful and organized it while I was at it.
The other thing I needed to do was adjust some of my shelves in the kitchen. As much as they are adjustable you have to remove the doors to do it.
So this weekend was spent doing this and cleaning from top to Bottom.
Plus Kristine is staying here when I am away so it was a great time to clean everything up.

For me it is such a reflection of just how much the depression has ruled my life the last years.

I have always been extremely organized and active ( likely mania) so to look at how I just did not get to things is amazing.

I am so fortunate to live in a beautiful space yet I seldom use it and do no entertaining simply because to many things were not getting done.

I take my ability to get stuff done at this time of year as a really good sign.

Upward and onward.

Drink anyone? Bars Open.