Wow, we’re halfway through the month. And the heat wave has broken. I feel like in the past few years (5?), once the extreme summer heat & humidity broke in mid-August it just never came back. I wouldn’t be mad at that. 80 degrees and low humidity is just fine with me for summer.

I had a nice weekend. Did you? Saturday was quiet and I got a couple small projects done in the apartment, then watched k-dramas at night. Sunday I had brunch with a friend then we went to see a local production of a play called “In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play.” An interesting premise.

Have I told you about my apartment clean-out project? I mean, I know I’ve talked about The Big Clean-Out, but I came up with a better plan/system. I’ve broken the apartment down into teeeeeny tiny chunks…”the corner behind the front door,” “the pile of stuff on the chair under the window in the living room,” “the top shelf of the bookcase next to the computer.” No “today I’ll clean out the living room.” That’s way too overwhelming. So I walked around the apartment one day, counting all the different little spots, even breaking closets down into sub-sections, and I came up with 35 spots. And each week I task myself with doing ONE SPOT. Like this weekend was the 4 cubbies on the bottom shelf of the bookcase by the front door. The top shelf had been done previously. I’m like 4 projects in and it really makes a difference. I fill a box with trash a couple times a week, old cd’s, power cables, magazines, electronic things…and take at least one bag of clothing, bed/bath stuff to the donation dumpster a week. It’s good. It’s making a lot of little dents. And before I know it, I FEEL it. The ease of spaces not being overstuffed with…stuff. It’s delightful.

I’m getting there.

Floral Top: American Rag & Co, 3x. 2016
Jeans: Gloria Vanderbilt Amanda, 22 short. 2020
Sneakers: Converse Shoreline slip-ons, 2020