“Remoted – Hybrid” – Day 905 (Thursday) – overcrowded conditions

Overcrowded conditions.

I’ve not done much work in Ancestry-dot-com lately. It’s so easy to forget. There has, however, been a good amount of book reading happening. Book club has gotten me back into the reading habit, and also the book buying habit. The tally is now around “probably more books than I will ever read.” The bookcases have taken on an extra overcrowded, shabby, appearance. Clearly, it’s time to expand the bookcase holdings. 

It’s really time for quite a lot of things, but just thinking about it is exhausting because they are boring grownup things that rank low on the fun meter. Fall housecleaning should happen before it gets too cold. The fall clothes need to be pulled out and summer clothes put away. The closet and drawers are also overcrowded and a clothing and footwear purge needs to happen.

More urgently, an outfit needs to happen for a wedding in two weeks. In my former, more creative life, I would have been buying fabric as soon as the save-the-date card arrived. Now, in the too small house with no space for the sewing machine to live, the idea of carving out a space to sew is overwhelming. It’s easier to shop.

Maybe the first thing to do is establish a system of rewards and prizes for completion of the boring tasks. This will take some creative thinking, which really just sounds like more work. In my younger days, it was easy, and the reward for accomplishing (or avoiding) any and all chores was shopping. Now, shopping is less fun, which is good, with the overcrowding conditions and all.