Productive Day!

Today was a VERY productive day. My parents were coming down to drop off my Christmas Tree, so I was up early doing a little picking up, getting the tree stand out and moving around some of the furniture to fit the tree.

Mom and Dad got here around 11ish. It was around 3:30 by the time I finished decorating the tree. I really like it and it looks cool. I put out a few decorations, but not anywhere near what I usually do. I was able to pack up a bag of trash just going through my Christmas decorations. I have one box for mom, if she wants it and another big rubbermaid container I'm not putting out this year but I still want to save.

I took a little break in the afternoon, ordered a pizza and watched a show on demand. Then I started in on the dining room closet. That thing has A LOT in it! Five very deep and very large shelves! I managed 2 bags of trash out of that closet! I packed up 2 boxes that can just get moved into my new linen closet in the new place. I didn't pack up most of the stuff like glasses and platers for a couple of reasons. First, at the time I didn't have extra boxes, second, nothing to wrap stuff in, and third, no where to really store the boxes. But once I get extra newspaper, then I'll wrap up the glasses and just store the box on that shelf in the closet.

After I finished that, I started on the spare room!! WOW! That was a BIG deal. I have 10 bags of trash out of that room, a bag for people at work, a box for a friend and 4 boxes from my mom. I made a nice dent. Funny, after I started clearing through the spare room... found out that I saved LOTS of boxes! This will work out well I think! :)

I know that this Thursday night is going to be a VERY long night and I'll be pretty sore. My trash comes by 7am on Friday mornings. I will need to bring out SO much stuff Thursday night. I haven't brought out any of the trash from the spare room because it is snowing and I'm not going outside right now. But Thursday will be it! Then on Friday I can get lots more done in the spare room, since I'll have LOTS more space to work in.

Now that I have my plan, it is going well. I know I struggle with big changes in my life. Fist I need to digest the idea of the change, then accept it and be ok with it. Digesting it is the hardest part for me. After I accept it, pretty quickly I start making a plan of action and start moving forward. I have my plan and now I'm working towards it! :)

OH! AND I did my Christmas cards! Didn't even know I had cards, but I had 5 unopened boxes in the spare room! So I did the cards, just need a couple of addresses I don't have.

I like having productive days like today. And I still have all day tomorrow.