For the last several days I have been depressed. It has really been a struggle. Today though, I was invited by H and A from church to hang out at H’s house. I looked up her address, and the drive looked like something I could do, so I went.
I am so glad I did! Conversation was great! It was nice to get to know the girls better, and do something beyond Bible study. H’s home was beautiful and sweet, and right on a pond. I saw ducks! I love ducks!
H just got new baby bunnies and they were beyond adorable. I miss having bunnies sometimes, but our bunnies were so destructive. I like having dogs.
After discussing things with Craig, I have decided to do a massive overhaul of the art studio. I am getting rid of all my supplies except my paints, and the curling ribbon I use to relax and do abstract photography. Art supplies (and books) are what make my heart sing, but my art room is getting really tight. Beyond that, the reality is that we move every two years. So every two years all this stuff had to be packed up. Worse, (because we don’t do our own packing) it has to be unpacked. We don’t get any help with that! I struggle to organize, so Craig unpacked part of the art room. Then I did more. Then Craig finished. But we have so much to set up each time we move that moving in takes more than 2 weeks. Craig tries to unpack for me to ease my stress, but it is too much for him.
So from now on, I keep only paints and painting supplies, curling ribbon, and what I can keep inside my luxurious art desk. It is my attempt at minimalism.
After discussing our difficulties with book storage as well, Craig and I made the agreement that from now on, I will buy any book that comes on Kindle for my Kindle rather than purchasing a hard copy. Of course some books have photography or simply are not made for kindle, so I will still be buying some hard copy books.But for everything that can be reasonably purchased for kindle, that’s what I’m going to do. I’m not happy because on kindle you don’t own the book. But I don’t have room to keep buying books.
This is me trying to be space conscious and scale back.
Life at Home 