Yesterday was for despair, well, and Thanksgiving, and finishing scrubbing out the blackened pot with the scrubby thing, but yes, in the end, despair.
Today is maybe still for despair, but we have to keep going somehow, don't we? And it's a donation day. I've been looking forward to this for a while now:
Today is maybe still for despair, but we have to keep going somehow, don't we? And it's a donation day. I've been looking forward to this for a while now:
This is what 18 donation bags on my porch looks like. Bringing my total number of Bags of Stuff Donated to...37 since we began this little adventure. That does not include the stuff I have given to friends.
The problem is, no matter how much stuff I manage to sort into bags and put on my porch to be taken away by charities, it feels like I'm not making significant enough progress that I could possibly be done by mid-December.
Add to that several other responsibilities, missed deadlines, illness and other...trouble and the despair wants to take over and settle down for a nice long visit. Which does nothing toward getting any of the stuff done that needs to be done, or out that needs to be out or moved that needs to be moved, making the sick cat healthy, etc. etc.
It's not that my problems are worse than anyone else's. It's not that they aren't the much maligned "first world problems." But even if they are awesome problems to have...sometimes they are still problems, you know? And sometimes they might still weigh on a person a little heavily.
There is also icy snow out there this morning. I excavated the shovel. And on we go.
The problem is, no matter how much stuff I manage to sort into bags and put on my porch to be taken away by charities, it feels like I'm not making significant enough progress that I could possibly be done by mid-December.
Add to that several other responsibilities, missed deadlines, illness and other...trouble and the despair wants to take over and settle down for a nice long visit. Which does nothing toward getting any of the stuff done that needs to be done, or out that needs to be out or moved that needs to be moved, making the sick cat healthy, etc. etc.
It's not that my problems are worse than anyone else's. It's not that they aren't the much maligned "first world problems." But even if they are awesome problems to have...sometimes they are still problems, you know? And sometimes they might still weigh on a person a little heavily.
There is also icy snow out there this morning. I excavated the shovel. And on we go.
We shall overcome... with donation bags??? I love it!
ReplyDeleteDonation bags are the path to enlightenment.
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