I’m relatively tech savvy, but pretty helpless when something catastrophic happens to my laptop of 6 years, which is exactly what happened last November. I bought a simple & cheap new replacement laptop because I just can’t function without a working computer and will wait until I have the means to buy the new computer of my dreams. Have not had the extra money to take the old laptop anywhere for further analysis. The hardware is not worth putting any money or time into repairing. I am just hopeful that I can salvage data from the hard drive. I have many pictures and documents that are not backed up or saved elsewhere (I know). Tonight just for shits and giggles I fired up the old machine and it’s still FUBAR.
I’ve been doing some Pre-Spring cleaning. Gathering up even more clothes and stuff that I can try to sale or just give away. My goodness I had sooo many clothes a year ago. I left behind a box of stuff at the house for my ex-wife to give away at her Church’s rummage sale. Then after I first moved back in with my parents I went through everything I owned and selected a few garbage bags worth of things to donate. Since then have done it a few other times and took a stack of my nicer stuff to re-sale shop. I sold several pairs of shoes at a garage sale. I’ve been constantly paring down all my stuff and I still have boxes upon boxes.
It’s not just clothing, but in the last 8 or 9 months I’ve given or thrown away a lot of miscellaneous junk. Even things I held onto that had sentimental value at one time or another. It feels good to hold onto things until it doesn’t. Then it feels better to purge. Sure there are times when you go looking for something you once had only to remember that you gave it up, and for a moment there is remorse, but it passes.
Part of this cleaning, organizing, unloading kick I’m on has included me trying to make it seem it like I am even less “moved in” here that I was previously. I may not have any actual timeline or process in place for me to move out, but I want to physically emphasize my surroundings with the reminder that it is of the utmost importance. I’m just staying here. Visiting. Not living. If most everything I own, which will not be very much, is already packed and ready to move on to the next place. Wherever that is.
This year is already one month down. I don’t have much to show for it. Only one scheduled job interview so far, and it was cancelled before it happened. At least I’m going to the gym again, even if it won’t be as much as I like because it’s over an hour commute there and back. But I’m just going to keep de-cluttering my life, mentally and physically, and hope that spurs on new ideas and plans and eventually a silver lining to this current & prolonged dark cloud.
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