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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 6:25 pm
Sigh. I had a really long post, and it was eaten. Long story short: * DH and I spent 3 hours (well, DH less than that) walking a total of 3.53-plus miles to the bank, Target, a Mailing place, Joann's, Walmart, and then home. * I figured out how to store images and ephemera in my art area--sadly it requires a 1.01 mile walk (one way) to Office Max to get file folders. OTOH, I also need to get some bookends, and I can get a free ream of paper if I turn in one of our empty ink cartridges. * I am also lead bidder in my pursuit of Stage 2 size baby food containers (2" x 2 1/2" x 1 3/4" high) to store my small items. I am bidding in two auctions, which will yield 50 containers. Hopefully, I won't need many more of them than that.
* Vee, I am amused that you were amused by my name for cottage cheese in the other thread. I cannot eat it--I try and cannot. * Tonight I'll be posting more stuff to sell on eBay and tomorrow I'll be tackling the art area with clearer plans in mind. I was dreading it, since I didn't know how I wanted to handle the area, so what was the point in working on it? * I doubt I'll be walking tomorrow, but I will be exercising, and I will be trying some energy pills. Fingers are crossed that they work. I just want to get the environmental clutter cleaned up so I can actually focus on my physical clutter. I've worked out most of my spiritual and moral clutter--which led me to major changes. I've mostly worked my way through my emotional clutter--with some exceptions. So all that is left is environmental and physical. (Well, mental, but I think I am stuck with that for life!)

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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 9:51 am
Lk, hope you are posting in the exercise log. Juju needs more competition. So, tell me are those uppers working? If so, who's your dealer? Someone injected my butt with lead today. Hard to get going.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 2:29 pm
Lum, nope Juju is quite safe. I used to post, but my numbers seemed so pathetic that I stopped. Plus, my pedometer broke, so it was way too difficult. I wish I had uppers. What I have instead is Super B Complex, which helps a little, and I just started Hydroxycut to boost my energy and help me with the weight loss. I also picked up a personal drink bottle that holds 64 ounces of water. My legs today are hurting like crazy--likely from the walk yesterday. But I am working on other things today, and that's fine.

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Grandmato2
Member
07-16-2004
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 8:48 am
Jumping in here. I have been fluttering for over a year with Flylady - still don't have it quite right but I continue to work on it. Vee - loved your before and after pictures. Gret job. I am still decluttering my office. Trying to clear more stuff out of there. It is nice to see people posting on this thread.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 10:44 am
Gt2: I thought we had been fluttering longer than that. I found, in one of my boxes of papers, a letter of support from her when Bill and I were verging on divorce. Did I really join her that much before you? February 2 is Imbolc--the day to welcome Spring stirrings. I'll be planting seed and setting up the greenhouse. I also need to start Spring cleaning so I can finish by the Equinox. So, lots to do to deal with clutter before the second!

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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 10:54 am
Grandma, a year + later I am not "there" yet either, and I suspect that I never will be. It is so surprising, but even after having decluttered an area I still find something a few months down the line that needs turfing or that I am finally ready to part with. Glad I am not the only one who is struggling to clear the office. It's a mess, but just hasn't got "priority level" yet. Lk, no idea about Imbolc, but does that mean it would be a good time to stick some bulbs in a pot to at least give me the feeling of spring indoors (I am one of those brown-thumbed gardeners)? I highly suspect that we won't be rid of all this snow any time soon this year.
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Grandmato2
Member
07-16-2004
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 12:38 pm
Lk: when did we start? YOu are much better about dates then I am? Still cold and snowy here. Hoping for an early spring but who knows.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 5:34 pm
We are having a lot of trouble keeping up with the floors during the winter months with so much snow, ice, and salt. Martha Stewart really does have a good solution that I just found today. Since I have extras of this stuff, I am getting it out tomorrow to create this near my own door.
Where is everybody? No one in the mood to talk about home blessings and flying? Oh, does anyone ask guests to remove their boots or shoes? I want to, but don't dare.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 5:48 pm
Reporting in, Ma'am, and all blessed out, but the place is spotless - I think - I hope.LOL We used to have boot trays by the front door like that. Now, we have a long runner in the entrance hall, so there is no excuse for messing up the floor any more whether they are coming in through the front door or the garage. You know, I doubt that Martha ever wiped her pooch's wet paws or she wouldn't have those light towels at the ready. Those many pegs are a great idea though if you have little ones coming in and out.
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Spinner
Member
10-27-2003
| Friday, January 28, 2005 - 11:15 pm
But I like the idea of towels at the ready! That's a great solution, Vee, and you're right; easily duplicated. Here, we don't have any rainboots. We own snow boots, but those are for when we go where there's snow.If it rains (which it's been doing a lot of), we go out in our shoes and hope for the best. I don't even think I know of anyone who sells rainboots here, except for little kids. Lots of people here remove shoes indoors (sorry, Flylady, but they do. LOL) so you could decently ask people to do it. If I go to somebody's house and see shoes at the door, or in a pile inside, I take mine off too. Haven't checked in here much; been out of town a lot, but my sink is shiny, I've decluttered another closet, I know where my laundry is (some of the stuff that can't go in the dryer is still damp from a couple of days ago--rainy weather and it isn't drying so that's still hanging up on the drying rack) and the feather duster and Roomba both worked hard today. I didn't. <G> I am working harder on Flylady's mandate to get moving more. I do get in a brisk 30 minute walk most days but now the government's new food/exercise regimen suggests 90 minutes a day if you want to lose weight or keep it off. I'm almost where I want to be (I've lost 50 pounds over the last 15 months--I'm a great believer in small changes, as you can see <G>) and I absolutely intend to keep it off. But 90 minutes? Sheesh. So, applying Flylady's "one baby step at a time" I see that 90 minutes is 18 blocks of 5 minutes each and the 30 minute walk knocks out six of them, leaving about 5 minutes per hour of available time per day. So now I have my marble baskets. They're very small, and I have 18 of those decorative marbles that you buy for flower vases. I transfer them from one basket to the other as I get 5 minutes in here and there; a big 6 (or sometimes even 12!) go over when I get the walk in. If I'm gonna try for 90 minutes I'm counting everything so I give myself one marble per day for all of the running up and down the stairs that I do everyday--we have a 3-story house, but everything else is some 5-minute thingie, like running in place while I'm waiting for water to boil, that sort of thing. Most days I'm not getting all 18 marbles moved over, but I enjoy rewarding myself for what I do get, and I know I'm moving more than I was. Now, if you weren't sure before, you know I'm nuts!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 7:07 am
Accckkk! I saw those new guidelines, too, and I think it's crazy! For one thing, just as one can train one's body to think it is starving and must hold onto every calorie, I believe one can train one's body in this regard as well. Okay, off soap box. When I do FlyLady's 30 minutes a day...15 mins in the morning and 15 in the afternoon, I feel that I have done all that I have time for so my hat's off to you, Spinner, for your marble system and getting in more exercise. Nope, never thought you were nuts, but clever? Yup! Congrats on the weight loss also. We are stepping back up to the plate, not the dinner plate, Feb. 1, which is when we began the last push. We've become a bit undisciplined again and just need to tighten the program. This is probably going to mean more exercise so I am in the market for a pair of snowshoes, which will probably take me into April, hopefully. Hope that Laurie is still flying out there. Has anyone heard from her lately? Grandmato2? Have a good day all!
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Grandmato2
Member
07-16-2004
| Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:24 am
I have heard from Laurie this week. She is busy working at organizing her craft area plus she is going to have a helper come in on Saturdays to help her.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:58 am
A helper? A friend or a professional? That's great either way! Thanks for posting, Grandmato2! How are you doing? Have any projects to share?
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:31 am
Hey, Spinner! Nobody up here *doesn't* take their shoes off here either. Did Flylady say that was a no-no? Here it is considered good manners. The only shoes that hit my floor past the entrance are house shoes or very clean, dry loafers and sandals during good weather times. BTW, I am glad you got all your marbles. What about these new guidelines? You mean a body is supposed to work out 90 minutes a day? Even Curves isn't that mean. They only want you sweating for 30 mins 3 times a week minimum. I think I'll stick with their philosophy, more up my lazy alley. Yay, Laurie!!! Don't forget to come out from under occasionally.
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Grandmato2
Member
07-16-2004
| Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 4:07 pm
Lumbele, I also am a member of Curves. Just been hard to fit it in after work. I am still working on decluttering. Mainly trying to get all of my school stuff out of a bedroom and into my workroom at one of my schools. I am a librarian at 2 elementary schools. My time has been absorbed at my one school. Two days into the school year, mold was discovered in the library. The library was closed for 6 weeks and over 7200 books were discarded. Now, we are rebuilding the book collection and it really is a lot of work.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 4:14 pm
Oh that is awful, Grandmato2. I hate to hear about books being lost. What a lot of work. Seems to be so many mold problems in schools. We have another case of it here in my neck of the woods just this week. Wonder what's going on with that and if they made the buildings too tight or what? Hope that it is some fun, too. I worked as a librarian one year that the school received a grant for nearly $5,OOO; that made shopping a lot of fun.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 9:29 am
Okay, I am hoping that the humiliation of this will spur me on to clean it up and post the results when I do. That had better be today! This is my porch; it is the first thing that one sees coming in to my home. YUCK! My excuse is that it has been too cold to do anything about it, but it is a balmy 30° today so I am without an excuse. Avert your eyes if you can't tolerate a disaster!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 9:33 am
Well, that certainly is a mess...tried to have a bit larger photo so you could properly enjoy my mess, but the colors were too intense for the board so this is what you get. I'll post a clearer, but smaller version below because, gee, I love a good mess.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 9:38 am

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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 11:14 am
Better, not perfect, just "good enough" for a cold January day and for a porch serving as summer furniture storage.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 11:16 am
oops
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 11:18 am
triple oops
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 11:21 am

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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 11:23 am
I think I quit! .2 off!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 30, 2005 - 11:25 am
Well, phew! If the board crashes tonight, all fingers will be pointing at me! I was trying to get it larger rather than smaller; although, now that I see it, I don't know why. Anyway, the timer system works; long live the timer!
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