Now Archive: April 2022
_This is my Now page and here’s what’s up for me these days as of April 4th 2022. For my current Now page, go here.
Lately my life has been consumed with stuff. And oh I’m at capacity and feeling really done with stuff.
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Mom Stuff
After several trips to Oregon and a whole lotta help from family & friends, the house my Mom lived in is completely cleared of all her stuff and has already changed hands to a new owner (who happens to be a previous owner as well, funny enough). SO glad that part is done! This month is going through stuff in storage with family and distributing it, and filing her last taxes and financial stuff like continuing to fight to gain access to any remaining accounts. But most importantly celebrating her life on what would have been her 72nd birthday! If you knew her, please come. It won’t be a funeral, more like a party that I’m organizing for a guest who will only be there in spirit. -
Moving stuff
No, I’m not moving, but I’m in Maryland right now helping friends move. As I wrote about last month, they are close family friends and this is a chance to repay some of the help they’ve given me over the years. At this point, they both have medical conditions and really do need support to make it through this. But DAMN it’s a lot of stuff! I’ve ended up opening boxes full of the same things I just gave away at estate sales and free-if-you-can-carry-it-away days at my Mom’s. -
Work Stuff
I’m training in a new LMS admin, a lady who really seems to know her stuff. That’s a welcome relief! There is still much stuff that remains undocumented and unresolved that I’m always wrestling with. -
Finance Stuff
Taxes are due on the 15th. And though they are indeed simper for me this year than they’ve probably ever been since I officially started working, there is still much to do and prepare. I’m trying my best to simplify more along the way. Maybe someday it really will be simple! …Dare to dream, right? -
Storage Stuff
Denise and I rent a house, and it came furnished. For this reason, and a few other less explainable ones, we have THREE storage units full of stuff. This month I’m on a tear to purge any and all possible possessions that are no longer serving us. I hate waste, but right now I’m even more allergic to clutter. Everything I own is about to find itself in a moment of reckoning. Either it is has been useful to me in the last 2 years, or it has not. Either it is projected to be useful in the next 2 years, or it is not. All the “nots” are about to find new homes because this stuff is stifling, and I’m about to say stuff it!
What keeps me going during some of these more challenging times is funny stuff. Like my eternal favorite, George Carlin. In case you too could use a little 5min pick-me-up, here’s his 1986 routine on “stuff”!