Seriously, it's friggin' contagious. It seems that a lot of my friends, hearing and reading about my efforts to downsize are all catching the vibe now. Even better, they are feeling more productive, more free, and more empowered to remove unnecessary things from their lives so they can focus on the things most important to them.
It's a good place to be in, I think. People are asking important questions like: "What is this and how did I get it?" I think we have a lot of things in our lives like that. I have a few in mine. Clutter and all manner of mess here and there and I wonder sometimes where it came from.
Back to my personal efforts, here's some sum up. First off, I finally got all of the things donated to Goodwill! Big burden off my shoulders. I gave James all of his dishes back and they are downstairs in a side cabinet that is hard to reach. We never use them now. Having moved everything out that I didn't want, I took the time to look again at the things I have left. I had some posters scattered about the room and a bookshelf in a corner, so I decided to move them all to the same wall and rotate my desk 90 degrees or so. This is the outcome:
I loved the feel of being creative while making this all work together. Some of this has changed a bit; I hung my hat on the wall. I hung keys on the wall. All in all, it's a beautiful wall and a very unique creative space. I like it a lot. It also clears out a lot of space for photography things since the other three walls are now bare of any material. I feel like I should be drawing comic books!
I went shopping this weekend and bought a few things:
All of them are cool. I'm a big fan of accessories, so that's most of what I bought. Also grabbed some underwear, cologne and scented candles instead of incense. Should be nice. I cleaned out a lot of things from my accessory box, too, so now all of the things in there are accessories that I wear which is nice.
Today, I hung out with Hollie and Brandon for lunch today. Brandon was nice enough to take a completely silly picture of us:
Side notes you'll find funny: my underwear matches this shirt. Other than that, so did the accents on the necklace I wore with this. It's rosary-styled, which I like a lot. Fun to wear and I looked nice.
I might need to think about new dress pants, though.
Downloaded some new music, but got rid of more as I'm downsizing nonsense that I don't like listening to so that every song I hear on my iPod makes me excited when it comes on.
My mood about so many things is changing. I hate seeing people at night at my house now except for like ten people... LOL. Who am I kidding? Most times lately, I think I need to be alone. It's like solitude is calling my name and no one can hear this but me. Ah well, I guess it will take a bit longer before I can get this settled. I've also been drawing more. Working from home is going ok. Getting things done here and there. I helped direct my first podcast. That was fun. Talking to people a bit about a lot of cool things. There's a lot of good things going on around here and I think it's just the beginning of many such things.
More minimalism.
More good things.
Oh yeah, there was some family drama. It made me stabby. No lie. One of my younger brothers was supposed to pick up the other and didn't because he fell asleep. My mom thought he was out on the road. I had to commandeer someone's car and be on the APB for the next 45 minutes and take my brother home from work. Again, this is in a car that is NOT my car. I decided I would be incognegro (thanks, Bracha) for the rest of the weekend. (~_~#)
Talking to Cedric and Davonte has been interesting as well as they are newer acquaintances and moving toward friendship. Speaking of friends, I miss Whit, John, Anna, and Reza. I'm still dealing with and facing realities and trying to be realistic and real and all this. Hard work, honestly. There's so much going on...
Oh, and I'm watching anime, too. ;)
That's about it for me on that side.
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