Daylight Savings Time ends. Of course, woke up on “real” time, so I got up an hour early, fully awake. Too early to walk. 49 degrees but with a 22 mph wind it feels like 41 degrees!
The “fall back” Sunday is always a strange day. I can feel the extra hour all day.
Cool weather is definitely here! Saturday was a good day overall. I got some stuff thrown out/put in the donation box. It is a long process, as slowly but surely I try to use the “toothbrush test (Do I use it at least once or twice a day, and/or if it won’t enhance my life, it goes!).
I really need to start taking pictures of my “event” t-shirts and hats and donating them. It is hard to part with them, but I think the picture album will help me donate them.
Finished the book on “peanut butter”. I enjoyed it, a little dry at places, but it had a lot of interesting information.
I hadn’t realized that peanut butter is used a a food for poverty areas (a product called “Plumply Nut” (and similar names) which is a oatty of 3 oz of peanut butter, honey and vitamins and is a major source of protein.
In some cases where children got this the survival rate even from severe starvation was over 95%, much more than other means of treatment.
The patty can last for 2 years, unrefrigerated, so it is perfect as a temporary survival food.
I wrote the book down in my “books read” note book. I realized I have been keeping track of every book I read in the book for the past 25 years. (It is a calendar type book, with the days, but not the years, called the “Days of the Literary Year”.
I need to decide whether to retire the book and start a new one. Twenty five year is a long time and it may be time to retire it and start a new listing.
I keep thinking I will put all the books on the computer, but somehow I have never gotten it done. Maybe a need to do each day as it happens, and at least in a year I will have it done, assuming I actually do it for a year!
It is strange, all that time I had when i wasn’t working and it didn’t really seem I had much time. I think looking for a job and adjusting to reality (plus moving when we realized we were moving someplace) made a difference.
I had the same general feeling I had when I was working. There was SOMETHING I needed to be doing, either researching for jobs, writing and revising my resume, or improving my skills in some way.
Now, since I started my current job, when I am “off” I am truly off. Not that I don’t work a little bit, especially since I still have a lot to learn, but I don’t feel the need to be doing something all the time. Of course with still trying to downsize and donate or toss items, I always have something to do.
Getting ride of “stuff” is getting harder now, of course. I am getting into items I have had for years,literally my entire life.
However, I am taking the attitude that I shouldn’t be owned by my possessions So what if something “might” be “worth” something It is is, I’ll sell it! Even if something is “worth something” , is it really worth carting it around, when the “worth something, even if it is originally a freebee now worth $10 or evenn $50, is it really worth it and, in most cases, it is just old junk that isn’t worth anything anyway.
Certainly a $100 printer we bought 10 years ago that “may” work,isn’t worth while keeping. A new, more modern printer isn’t much more or even cheaper.
The big problem is probably personal keepsakes that AREN’T worth anything, but have a sentimental value. Old letters, my dad’s old (and I mean oldI) briefcase thats worn out etc. There I try to think, is it worth anything to anyone else? If not, I try (and I mean try) to toss it.
That’s it for today, Sunday, November 2, 2014
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