BOO!

 I can’t believe it is already Halloween! Where did this month go?  The weather has been really nice for the most part, just three or four days of cold rain.  Fall is my favorite season and October my favorite month and I just wish it would last longer.

I decided this morning to quit grousing about all my maladies and start focusing on being productive.  I think I finally know what it means when people reference “living intentionally”.  So, this morning I went upstairs to my craft area and decided to start weeding through some boxes that had never been unpacked from our move almost 3 years ago!  I managed to throw some things away and sort other things.  If I do that every day I may actually get control of the area!  

For a while now I have explored minimalist living.  I will never be a minimalist but I have come to recognize how much clutter and excess just adds to anxiety and, if not depression, at least, bad moods.  I think I really believe in lagom, the Swedish idea of “just enough”.  So, I am going to start paring down — I have three pairs of pinking shears for goodness sake! Now, in all fairness to me, I didn’t buy them myself, I fell heir to two of them but still.

We have a lovely charity shop not far away that I am going to gift with all sorts of notions and things.  I am sure someone will need some pinking shears.  And rick rack, and patterns.  Lots of patterns.  I think it is time I go through the fabric too.  That will be a chore but I am feeling that it is the right time to pare down — or mass produce some bed quilts!

So, as I turn out the light on this last day of my favorite month in my favorite season I am looking forward to working on this project and sharing all my excess with other who don’t have any.  It will be a win win for everybody! 

Now it is time to take the fur baby to bed — I will just ignore the clock until morning.  Maybe I will actually get that hour of sleep back!