The countdown continues

This blog has turned into my diary of a move. Today, I realized that when the clock strikes midnight, I will have exactly 6 weeks before I get on the plane. I have to get a move on.

What have I accomplished? A complete state of panic. I don't have enough time or energy to get this done in 41 days, I tell myself. And then my stomach starts getting ugly on me. I am desperate, but I will not drink a soda...that is bad for me. So I take another water bottle. And another. No alcohol, no Coke, just water. It is beginning to get on my nerves but that is the only thing I can do.

I have lost four pounds in the last two weeks, just by dropping the soda out of my life. I can't backtrack on that progress. My butt is beginning to look like a butt again. I can see something resembling a flat belly. Even my breasts stopped hurting. I am seing progress in one area.

Now all I have to do is channel that energy on other things. I have started to make the move in my business as well, little things that will create a big impact later. Now all I have to do is to get a move on the packing.

I am working on the laundry. I had a problem with the hanging rope, I had none. I could not hang clothes to dry. We solved that yesterday when the last one gave out on us. Hopefully the water company gets moving and we get water pressure and I can do more than a load every three hours (with normal water pressure I can do 3 in those same three hours). I should be done with the clothes on Monday.

I also plan a last Garage Sale next Saturday. I need to clean the furniture (and empty it) so that I can get pics on the Classified and on the flyers. I have great expectations for this next one: the last two made me about $600 and the furniture was not ready yet.

Let's keep a positive attitude and I will keep you informed.

Some days are good....nah, all days are good

There are days when you wake up and you want to go back to bed. When you are on a countdown that is less than 45 days and you are way behind schedule, you don't need days like these. Your internet connection is not cooperating, your browser is dead, you find out you have to go to a funeral on Friday, you are really behind schedule...what to do?

Well, the solution is simple. Life is challenging. If you don't have challenges, you are dead. The quality of your challenges is directly related to the quality of your life. What do I mean by this? If you find your life boring, your challenges are crappy. If you find your life interesting, so will your challenges. The better the challenge, the better your life is. Yes, it is that simple.

I have an interesting week. So to me, there are no bad days. Good days and challenging days, the more the merrier. Think about it.

How many clothes can three people own?

It is not a rhetorical question either. I use two hours of my day on the purging process. That means that for two hours every day, I go through the house picking clothes that I am taking to Florida, clothes that I am keeping while I am still in PR, clothes that I am throwing away and the rest goes to charity.

I just packed my bag. It is full, it might fit about three more pieces of clothing. I packed two big bags of clothes for charity. I'm not even halfway done. Every time I empty a closet, I find a box under a bed or another closet to empty. That is not including the six loads of laundry that we have done already, the six or seven we still have to wash and the four bags of clothes I already sent to charity at the beginning of the year. I get tired just looking at the closets.

Tomorrow is another day. I hope that purging will be done. I dream of the day when the only clothes in my closet are the ones I am keeping for now. I look forward to the day I start purging my books...ok, not really. I have enough books for two libraries. Since all I am taking is the books and the clothes, everything else is getting sold, I hope that is all the purging I will do. I have 43 days left and only 38 to do it. I guess I better get back to work.

Keep trying.

No internet access, no problem

Yes this is a short post. No, I have not finished with the clothes. Since I cannot work on the internet today, might as well tackle the clothes.

What have you left without doing because "life" got in the way? Maybe your workouts, having fun, or tackling that project at home. Get to it. Today is all you have.