After having completed an hour in the Box Room, thrown out one large trash bag of pure junk and a stack of empty small appliance boxes, I now have two large canvas bags full of sewing notions, a small box of college memorabilia and paper ephemera I can’t part with, and a box started of things I am going to pass on to others. I also saw a section of floor that hasn’t been seen in years.

I have decided that an hour on any given day is enough. Too much more, and I would wear myself out and get sick of dealing with it. Stop when you are still in a positive mood and optimistic, I say. It felt good to get done what I did. I might have thrown out some more actual trash (like empty boxes), but the bin is full and won’t be empty again until tomorrow. It was a good time to stop anyway.

Later, I am going to open the bedroom closet and put the sewing and craft notions away with the rest of my stash. Maybe I’ll even be inspired to do another hour in the Box Room, even though I don’t have anywhere to toss anymore trash today. It’s not like it’s messy trash, so it could sit in some corner until tomorrow when the bin is empty again.

I feel good. I feel inspired. I can conquer the insanity of the Box Room! Really … I think I can! One hour at a time!

The cats have been going out of their tiny little minds since I opened that door. That room is the great unknown to them. Uncharted and unexplored territory. That’s the way it has to stay for a while, until things are under control in there. But since there wasn’t any way for me to actually go through things in the room with the door closed, I had to leave the door open and sit in the hall. Yes, the cats were most interested, not only in what was behind that mysterious door, but also in all the new things they had never seen before being pulled out of boxes and stacked around the hall. Yes … very, very interested. Currently, they are tearing around the house like two wild things, likely peeved because the door is now closed, and there’s no new stuff sitting around to rummage through. They will just have to wait until tomorrow for more free entertainment.

I can’t believe I actually started on the Box Room and even made a very small dent in the stacks of junk. Go me!

I should probably go try to get some sleep now, but I seriously need to reset my body clock. I may try to stay awake as long as I can so I will go to sleep at a somewhat normal hour tonight. I can’t work on the Box Room while Lin is sleeping, so it would be very helpful to be on a daytime schedule again. Maybe I could even get more than one hour done a day.

If I am going to try to stay awake, I better go plan an easy dinner right now. If I have to use my brain to make dinner after being awake forever, we will starve to death or eat peanut butter on crackers, which Lin will not accept as a proper meal. I don’t know what I am going to make, but it better use leftover taco meat, because I have some. Chili maybe? Guess it’s time to go poke around in the kitchen and have some caffeine while I am at it. Coffee on the porch sounds so good right now.

It’s a beautiful morning!