Happy Leap Day!

This past week was a lot quieter without Facebook & Twitter, plus a much reduced amount of YouTube.

At first I had removed YouTube, but found I was missing out on some great content and wonderful opportunities.

Instead, I used the Kon Mari Method on my YouTube channels:  if it brought me stress, I unsubscribed.  I eliminated the drama & beauty channels, along with news and political channels.  I kept the writing, cleaning, organizing and self care/self help channels and have been binging on Muchelleb.

I worked a little bit late Tuesday night, but it was fine.  I was able to work my schedule around it.  I also watched a live stream on YouTube of one of the personal finance channels became debt free today.  I am so excited for her!

This past Thursday evening I attended my first ANWA (writing group) meeting with the new group.  I loved it, everyone is so kind.  I am so excited to get back into writing!  I’ve started the process of moving my current project from iCloud to Scrivener.  I’m looking forward to learning more about the app.

Today, I’ve taken a load of recycling out, grocery shopped, and ran dishes and laundry.  I also used the vacuum cleaner to kill and remove spiders and their webs out of the kitchen.

Progress!

Transfer Tuesday

Undisclosed - Tithing 

$500 - Visa

$18 & $20 - Base savings

$50 - Home Improvement 

Car maintenance this past weekend ran a little over $700.

Taking A Social Media Break

I’m taking a break for a little while, this includes YouTube.

How Many Cows?

Since I had a sleepless night on Tuesday, last night I took an Ambien and went to bed at 7pm.

At some point during the night I dreamt about the short movie Johnny Lingo.  Then a new question came to my mind:  would you be willing to give up ALL of your cows, not just an arbitrary number?

Then I was reminded of Alma 22:18:

18 O God, Aaron hath told me that there is a God; and if there is a God, and if thou art God, wilt thou make thyself known unto me, and I will give away all my sins to know thee, and that I may be raised from the dead, and be saved at the last day. And now when the king had said these words, he was struck as if he were dead.

So the question is, what are we willing to give up to know God?

A Wonderful Evening of Family History

It’s 4am and I’m awake.  I’ve been waking up several times during the night as the cats have been climbing on top of me for most of the night.

I’m still jittery from last night’s Women’s Meeting at Evergreen Ward where a wonderful couple, just returned from a Family History Mission, gave a wonderful lesson on a portion of what they have learned.  It was a fantastic, and emotional evening.

I did make an attempt at playing the piano, and it was starting to come back to me by the end of the song.  LOL.  My first attempt was not good at all but people were very nice about it.

The real kicker for me came from a video where a man was talking about his wife’s parents and the tours of the house he would give as each child and grandchild would arrive home from the hospital.  It became a family tradition that he carried out on the last day of the mother in law’s life.  Very heart wrenching for me to picture something like that with my parents and their house.

I finally started to grieve again this morning.

Hugs To Kristi

I’ve been there myself, the meltdowns and that fear that no one understands.  I understand

Transfer Tuesday 2-11-2020

Not Disclosed - Tithing & Fast Offerings

$500 - VISA

$50 - Auto Sinking Fund

$50 - Home Improvement Sinking Fund

$50 - Pet Sinking Fund

$50 - Snowflake Sinking Fund

$14 - Base 

$16 - Base

Week 2 - Kitchen

Here’s a sight I seldom see, but hope to see more of.

Monday night I vacuumed up the spiders and webs and ran a load of dishes in the dishwasher.

Tonight (Wednesday night):

Cat food dishes are done, trash is taken out, floor swept and mopped and the large appliances’ doors wiped down.

Tomorrow I start the daunting task of clearing off the cabinets.

Update 2-3-2020

This past weekend was great.  While my accomplishments may small to others, I feel like I got a lot done, including laundry and clearing over half of the clutter piled on the dining room table.

I keep asking myself if the clutter is something I would see in the Temples and the answer is no.  Everything within the Temples are well organized and aesthetically beautiful.

This past weekend, while watching a decluttering video, it was mentioned instead of thinking how much stuff do I want to remove, think of what is it you want to keep?