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Incentives & Ulterior Motives
The struggles and frustrations of coping with adult ADD are very real.  Step into my house, and you will immediately see what I mean.  If you took the time to follow the preceding link, you may have read the checklist and thought each of the items fits.  That may be true, but in those [...]

Home Improvement

My goal yesterday was to steam clean the high traffic area and some old spill stains in the family room. Once I had an end table and the love seat moved to the center of the room, I thought it would be a good time to paint. So I said that out loud, [...]

Pure and True Happiness

That’s some serious laughter!
It warms your heart to see such pure and true happiness in person, but to capture it and relive it over and over is really special.  This is only one of the reasons I love photography so much.
I am determined to learn all that I can about exposure.  I’ve read the same [...]

The Big Move

Still a work in progress that should be done later today – except for the painting and window treatments.

Busy Saturday Schedule

I can check off the first thing on my list for today: work 2 hours (a total of 50 hours this week).
Next on the agenda: clean out and reorganize my kitchen pantry. That will probably take me the better part of an hour, if not more! Oh! I also have to pay [...]

Inside the Lives of Hoarders

I don’t normally watch Oprah, so I missed part one of today’s show.  Peter, from Clean Sweep (one of my favorite shows), helped an older couple clear out their house.  They filled enough rental crates (about 20×20×30 inches) to fill three semi moving trucks of stuff from a 3,000 square foot house.  I couldn’t help [...]

Drowning in a Sea of Clutter

Seriously! Can someone please just donate a huge dumpster for us? We have so much we can get rid of. I have two bags ready for a charity pickup schedule for this Thursday already. Every time one of those organizations calls to say they’ll have a truck in our neighborhood, I [...]