More packing and sorting today! I went through my 3 boxes of Christmas stuff and got it down to one box. I will give away the rest. I got a closet cleaned out. Got more totes packed. And we brought the computer to its new home and got to enjoy a couple of hours of tea and conversation with friends as a bonus! It is surprisingly easy for me to just put stuff in the “give it away” pile. I had been putting off doing the Christmas stuff because I am a Christmas junkie and have always enjoyed putting up and looking at all of my decorations. But maybe because it is June or maybe because I am excited about what we are doing, it was pretty easy to just let go of stuff. When we left Fairbanks I did the same thing. I was thinking that it used to take me all day to decorate the house for Christmas, but we keep on downsizing, so it will be quick as a flash this year. The ease with which I was able to get rid of stuff may also have something to do with last Christmas. I had the decorations all up on the day after Thanksgiving as usual. Shortly thereafter, we had weeks of air stagnation and heavy pollution, which caused me to have runny nose, watery eyes, sore throat and a bad cough. A cough that kept us awake at night. Then the week of Christmas, Bill got some kind of weird digestive ailment or something. He spent Christmas in bed. So the decorations in and of themselves weren’t that important in the end. I would’ve rather had both of us feeling good in a house devoid of decorations than to be sitting there coughing and having Bill sick in my decorated house. Anyway, progress has been made! And tonight I should be able to finish the sock I am working on. It is the second of a pair--I finished the first months ago and figured I should make the mate before we leave so I can tuck my double points into a tote. Slowly but surely we are getting there!
