Drumroll!!!

Tuesday night RS and I enjoyed it.  Joyce, the teacher, had each person write something that were striving for and had started in Jan. as perhaps a resolution or something new to add to their life.  I seem on this rampage of just throwing my entire life, warts and all, on life's big sky power point so I wrote...purging house.  I know Shannon & Jennie said my name as they read my blog.  I appreciate those that love me in spite of my total humanness.   I love them for not faulting me but following with interest, the antics of a woman as old as me that seems to have a loose screw with all I hold onto.

Enough about that!  Drum-roll please.......

Phase 1 of office is done!!  All sifted and sorted and trashed and tote stored and downsized immensely.

Morning!

Evening!

to much of a good thing!!

Why is one never good enough for me?  here ....2 of the 3 pieces of granite from the CR Temple.  1 of the 3 Nauvoo bricks.  from my parents things....Ivory snow geese.  Ivory letter opener.  Ebony/baleen letter opener.  Ivory scrimshaw bottle opener. carved wood butler.  and my Grandmothers sterling silver butter knife (yes.  it needs to be polished)  will give 2 granite and 2 Nauvoo bricks away.  will most likely put sentiments of my parents of shelf above computer where they have been.  Decorating etc. is not this first go round.

What I face when I sit at my desk.

Basket you ask?  Yes, filled with Conference Issues of Ensigns.  Rattan basket on bottom?...hanging files of Genealogy.  It's placement tells a lot of how much I do and may also represent what Kingdom I may end up in if I don't shape up!!  Middle antique suitcase?...filled with research books for something I wanted to write.  Top trunk?....totally filled with letters clear back from 1950's.  Letters I wrote my Aunt and she saved them.  Letters I wrote my parents.  Letters I wrote to Terry.  Letters Terry wrote to me.  And an unrelated non-letter pair of baby blue corduroy shoes that each of my boys wore as newborns!  It's all contained and ready for me to dig in and do something!!

Alaskan Oil painting.  Given to my parents in 1961.  Food caches.  I've seen this color reflected on the snow.  gorgeous! lavender looks to sharp with my little camera.  It's more dusky.  but you get the idea.

 Tomorrow starts our room!!!  Another huge challenge but I'm up for it!! 

Freedom on the horizon!!

Terry trying out his cherry wood walking staff that Greg made him!

Words found in file.  I do love the feeling below.  probably because it's not overwhelmed with stack of stuff!

why would this warm my heart?

last batch of stuff to sort and find desktop

looking better!!!

 I tried to put the above pictures after the paragraphs/picture first and it wouldn't let me so I'll end with what I wanted to start with.  Tomorrow I will be done with step one of my 4 step plan of #1 de-junking/downsizing.  Office will be done.  Closet is done.  Next?--under our bed!!!  Don't ask.  I'll tell when I unearth the treasures!

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I cherish words and thoughts and ideas that float into my thoughts.  I believe in crediting the thought receivers and I have no idea who was gifted with this truth but wish I could acknowledge them.  A lot of food for thought in this wee sentence. (see bottom of page.  I couldn't get it to move right here!)

I want to be me.  real. solid.  what I have the divine destiny to become.  to be me.  This is a freeing task.  I'm enjoying the process.  Look at me the plundering plow horse!!!

Fiercely determined to conquer bothersome obvious/subtle thorniness is a wonderful task.  True it's shocking how much I've managed to accumulate, and view most as treasure and not trash, but space is a limiting factor.  If I can't access what I would like to use then of what use is it?  Space is limited so possessions must also be limited.  The size is what it is.  It's not going to expand.  Decreasing by whatever method works for me is essential.

I have no time left to waste!!

Etc. Etc. Etc. .....

Different things going on (Terry flu) that slowed me a bit on finishing up the office dig-out project.  I wasn't going to post anymore finds but a blog reader asked me to keep sharing.  (Maybe I encourage others, bring out gratitude, when they see what I'm dealing with and they feel really on top of their game?)

So here are a couple of pics of the short work on office week.....

Already I'm running behind because I put in the to be filed/sorted/used/thrown file drawer, a will that now I can't find!  A will of a couple wanting us to take their 4 children if they should both die in their small aircraft.  We didn't know them that well but did know that their children were rather, uh, active shall we say?  Thank goodness, on all counts, we did not have to live up the the contents of that will!!  Why would we have done that signing?  I will find it (before the millennium) and read over and share.  They were such a mismatched couple at least by appearance and interests but we so enjoyed each of them.  He and Terry were equally mismatched.  Terry the short mechanic and he the extra tall trim Medical Doctor.  He was an adventurer and they had just returned from his Physician stint at Kotzebue.  She was into theater and dancing and speech and etc. and I so enjoyed visiting with this rather recent graduate, of all the good things that BYU has to offer.  We worked together in the Stake YW.  They ate whole wheat cereal every single breakfast!   They gave us this set of Alaskan jade bookends that we have kept whole and enjoyed them for nearly 50 years.  We all moved away but that was an interesting shared part of our life.  A lot of trivia!

Mountain side of our treasure

Inside of it!

So you can see how tall it is

and also the width.

They are super heavy, gorgeous and Alaskan all the way!  They aren't kept in the office but they might eventually end up here.  Who knows?  time will tell.  I thought of them when I found the will- that I already can't put my fingers on it!!!  Time will tell on that also.

As for other Treasures/Trash of office purge....

emptied out boxes and note books.  all bets are on that boxes go back on shelves!

upper right. yellowed paper-"When your home is organized you feel more energized."

Thank you letter from Granddaughter.  written on a Kleenex!!

Miss Martha planted 3000 bulbs in ONE day.  I probably have room for 12! 

Who is the chocolate freak around here?????

buh-bye to more trash!!!  feelin' good!

Hey!  the tree is down.  the ornaments.  the garlands.  Just books, wreaths, outdoor lights left.  go Terry!