Apparently Weekly

I guess weekends are the best time for me to work on summarizing life.  Good intentions during the week are trumped by the need for some down time and sleep.

A couple months ago, I filled a plant 'tray' with some stale bread crumbled up.  A few weeks ago, I added some bird seed to the tray.  Today, I've been enjoying watching two blue jay mamas gorge themselves on the seed.  They both look bedraggled and skinny so I'm happy to assist them by providing a steady food source.  J. also filled up our bird water dispenser and I've been looking on Pinterest and other sites for ideas to make a water tray for them.  Heading into colder weather will likely bring rain so water won't be as scarce as it has been - well, I mean we're sure hoping for a hugely wet winter - but now, it's still hot (or at least warm) and with watering restrictions, lawns and planters are dry and not yielding much.  I think that's why the birds aren't looking good - incredibly dry conditions limit their food and water options.  Poor things.

I woke up at 6:30AM this morning and got up and started culling out my closet.  It's now 3:20PM and I've carried that forward and worked steadily most of the day on the office and also gathering - have a big box of 'stuff' ready for the charity pickup too.  I need to head back upstairs soon to continue the culling - I'm getting the box of pants out from under the bed that are a size I have decided I will never wear again - and clear my bed so I can get in it early tonight.  I feel tired and probably should have tried to sleep another couple hours this morning but it felt good to get going - and I'm motivated and want to keep on the path I started down this morning.

J. got 15 pairs of shoes out of the entry way closet.  It's become the shoe graveyard because H. takes off his shoes when he comes in the house and eventually, we just stash them in the front closet. There's quite a selection there and yesterday, I read an article online about a young man who's making a small fortune tracking down rare shoes and re-selling them.  I'm tempted to track him down and send him a picture of the shoes to see if he's interested.  H. will appreciate the cash and I'll appreciate having many fewer pairs of shoes in a closet that should hold coats, umbrellas and rain boots.

We don't actually own rain boots but I've always thought they were a good idea.

I worked in the office a few hours yesterday and should have gone in today but I figure it's a 3 day weekend next weekend so if I am unable to get things wrapped up during this week, I still have time. I'm in pretty decent shape, actually - though working on depreciation is always a dreaded task and with all the construction projects we've done this past year, it's a nightmare.  I'm plowing through but..it's a snow plow at times.  I'm supposed to be off this coming Friday for a four-day weekend but I think I will move that vacation day to later in the month - I'm using up the hours I need to comply with the carryover policy but I would rather work through Friday in exchange for hopefully having off at least one full day next weekend.

I really, truly hope I can get things done by end of day Friday but that might be a bit optimistic.  Lots of meetings this week -

Yesterday morning, I happened to check my personal email (not something I do very often) and had a notice from Amazon that my account may have been compromised.  After messaging B., I realized HE was the compromiser - tried to use his XBox to check something on my Amazon Prime account and him logging in from Tennessee created the fraud alert.  I give Amazon credit to know that someone was accessing my account from somewhere I'm not - and I had a hint it was B. when I went to reset the password and the phone number in the 'send text' was his cell phone.  Grrr.  But it's all fixed now.

We may try selling a couple things on the Let It Go app.  Worth a try.  A friend had a garage sale and made a whopping $10 - after hours of work to get things ready and more hours to put things away. It's just not worth all the work - so we might try the latest sell it app and see how it goes.

Guess I will wrap up and keep going on the path to continued culling.