back forward and back again – Tracey in Maine

Every now and then I do a daily prompt, not because I have nothing to write about or because I have run out of great blog posts to share but I think as a challenge to myself. So, today’s is pause.

Pause is my life at this time! I feel as if someone has pushed the pause button on me. We have bought a house and started work but now my man is out of town , well state, for work for 4 days which of course is on the weekend , which is mostly the only time to get any work done. He works ten hour days so after eating and things at night after work he only has a couple hours.

My whole, Back, forward and back again, thing that I was doing of course was hit by a wall when cleaning , organizing and downsizing became packing to move. The idea is still there, the hallway space I used to put things in to get rid of has increased again but I still have gotten rid of, 8 large black garbage bags, 3 or 4 regular size kitchen garbage bags, 5 or so 18 gall totes, and a few boxes worth of stuff. My man brought a box of contractors garbage bags which are, Idk, huge, he started to just fill them up with stuff from the basement that either wasn’t mine or was trash. Had about 6 or 8 of them. So, on that subject I am still a work in progress but the point is that it is still happening. Things that I don’t want to throw away r put into two piles, donation and yard sales. The new house has huge yard sale space and is on a main road so we have decided on that happening and once I have all of the stuff we r taking out I will move all the selling into the living room and open the door for an indoor yard sale!

The end of school is June 16. Now I’m thinking about what to do with that. My son has stayed back once from 7 grade and he’s in danger of it again became doesn’t do his work. Now he’s busting butt to pass the last quarter to not have to stay back. I don’t think it will help any to switch him with only a month or so left (by the time we are ready and moved in) I don’t think he needs to stay back and am going to see what we can do but that may mean waiting until after June 16 to go live in our house.

Then I still have a wedding to plan for October 14, 2017.

I am in pause status on everything and it didn’t help that we both have been sick for the past week.

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, PAUSE.

I think I figured out the reason for my failure in my organization and time management, well at least some of it. I realized today I need to turn off the tv and instead of sitting on the couch trying to figure out how and when to just get up and do it. I still bounced around from one thing to another but I didn’t have as much distraction as I usually do. I moved all day and feel like I got a lot accomplished. Now that I try to think thou, I can’t actually figure out what I actually did.

I know repetition is key to forming better habits. I have most of the times now morning and evening down to a routine. It’s trying to get my son into a better routine that’s giving me a hard time, but, I am optimistic.

Now that the snows here my cats are inside all the time so more fur and changing of the litter box is added to the house chores but, it’s normal.

I have alarms set on my phone for everyday to remind me to exercise, to turn off the tv and I leave it off till my son gets home from school so it’s about from 8-9 till 2-230.

I have so many things I need to do that I separated my day to do things at certain times a day, like, I have tons of email everyday from samples to surveys to stores just sending ads and things, but, when I sit still like that for long it makes me tired, so now I do that at night after supper but before bed.

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