#tiggysworld

Snap!! I’m doing the same thing. Getting things thrown out. Cleaning out rubbing. I threw away makeup I have now had for close to ten years! I want a minimalist home. I want things thrown away so next year when we are in a place to renovate we can. It’s so cathartic throwing things away that you do not use and do not love. I’m doing the bathroom now and later all my clothes!!!

my house was in relatively good shape until i had depression hit, and hit hard, from late 2013-mid 2015. i had a lot of things happen during that time that i wish i could go back and change, but i don’t obsess over. i’m going to use this “time off” to my advantage. if I’m going to do things with my life that i really want to do, my house has to be ready for it.

about 10 years ago, give or take, i moved twice in two years, once from NorCal to SoCal, and the second time from downtown LA to out in the South Bay. When I moved to the South Bay, I ended up in an apartment that was no more than about 500 sqft (and it is possible that it was even smaller than that). When I moved into that place, I had about 25 boxes of stuff in my place that I didn’t unpack (so, basically, I was living among boxes). It took a couple of years, and I took a long holiday weekend and went from 25 down to 5. I got rid of so much stuff and it felt so good. I need to do that again. I need to be ruthless in my tossing stuff out.

I was thinking about it this morning and, initially, was thinking that I’d break down all the boxes I have (amazon, anyone?) and get rid of them and then realized that would not be the best thing to do. First: separate stuff into keep and toss (with the keep stuff in boxes) and once i’m done with everything, go back through the boxes of stuff i set aside to keep and figure out where it needs to live. i know i need better storage (as in: any storage) and i’ll end up buying something for that (shelves, make put a linen closet in my hall closet, that kind of stuff). once I’m done with the part of the house i live in, i need to go through the one room (the second bedroom) that i use for storage and do the same thing. that one room will probably take as long as it takes me to go through the rest of my house.

That was an excellent installment. I love how you are very gentle with them!

We don’t often get a chapter where I take it easy on the pair of them. One, or both, usually end up getting put through the ringer - typically Tom but c’mon, tell me you didn’t read that first chapter and want to kick him where it counts. 

Bwhahaha…. isn’t that the question everyone wants to know?

Testing fancy font or did something good happens.

both

fancy font ‘cause, ya know, fancy!

also...

i’m doing a bunch of laundry today, just getting everything clean, regardless of the size of the clothes (it’ll help me when i finally decide to get rid of stuff if it’s clean). decided to try on a leather coat (didn’t wash it, obviously, but was hanging stuff up and i saw it and thought just do it) i’d purchased after i lost the weight 4 years ago even though i wasn’t done ‘cause i wanted to buy something nice for christmas for myself and something i’d always wanted and i got it for over half off and i wore it pretty much every day after that until it was summer and then i lost my job and then my dad and then i got depressed and then i gained weight and i tried it on at some point after i started gaining weight and it didn’t fit and i was just... more depressed and put it away in my closet and vowed not to try it on again. ever, but i just love it.

well, although it is just a smidge tighter than it was when i bought it, i can put it on and zip it up and wear it, so awesome.

emboldened by that, i decided to try on another pair of jeans. yes, i now fit into my size 10s that i bought from one chain (it was the chain that i bought all my jeans from when i was losing weight 4 years ago because they were relatively cheap-i could get them on sale for about $25 and they were consistent in their fit so it just worked for me) but there were some other jeans that i bought at christmas that year (a few weeks after the jacket) because i wanted jeans with fancy pockets because i’d never had jeans with fancy pockets because i just wasn’t going to do that in a size 18-20 (depending on the brand, and at my heaviest i should have been in a 22 if i’m being honest with myself) that i used to wear. at that size i just didn’t want to call attention to my butt. so, cut to me thinking well, let’s see how much more i have to go to be able to fit back into the fancy-pocket jeans because, i thought, their size 10s were closer to my cheapo-size 8s (since sizing brand to brand is not consistent) and I ACTUALLY FIT INTO THEM AND COULD ZIP THEM UP AND HOLY COW. now i’m thinking that they were more like an in between size but I REALLY DON’T GIVE A SHIT BECAUSE I CAN ZIP THEM UP. now, not going to wear them yet since they’re tighter than i’d like, but i just might be able to really fit into them by thanksgiving which is, btw, 4 weeks from tomorrow.

i also now have less than 30 29 pounds to lose (as of this morning) and i really hope to lose them. seeing how my body is shedding the inches this time around, i know that menopause is playing a factor. last time i was able to shed inches just about evenly and now? not so much since i’m in smaller pants at this weight than i was last time around and, if my memory is correct, i definitely have more weight around my middle than i did last time.

Glad I'm not the only one who forgets.

Add some protein back in? Maybe your stomach no longer wants potatoes. I think you need rice, maybe some brown rice always helps. Bananas?

i only had the potatoes on saturday. this week i’ve had eggs for dinner on a couple of nights (simple, scrambled) and they didn’t sit well. i kept them down, but my stomach just... ouch. i’ve been drinking protein drinks and even those cause some issues. i’ll see what i have in my cabinet (i don’t think i have any rice at all, no pasta, nothing, but i’ll check). bananas would be good, i think. they have some fiber, but not much.

To numb your brain

i’m not a fan of his but couldn’t turn it to another channel!

Move to Aus for 6 moths a year.

lolol. i don’t think i’d be able to afford to keep my house if i did that.