We have had massive storms & winds here lately.....so no outdoor work until I drove home this morning from getting labs done for the health fair this weekend at the hospital. There was a broken branch hanging down right where I ride the lawn tractor. Got out my branch cutters & ended up making a huge pile taking out everything to give me head room for mowing.

The other day I got my filing boxes set next to my bed & just took boxes of papers in there & started filing. Wow, it's feeling good, but I have a couple more boxes left to go that I had moved into my bedroom & tons more boxes left in my computer room to go through.

Know the problem when I moved in here was that I really had no storage boxes for filing into & all my closets were taken down for painting & I bought the wire ones to put up but never got around to doing them because it's hard to do something like that alone especially in a large walk in closet.

It feels so good to have the trash gone so I'm not climbing over it in the kitchen. & outside my master bath where I have JoGI because he fights with Leo otherwise. All those doggie pads add up into bunches of trash after awhile.

I still have tons of recycling to take in. I have them organized into baskets that are easy to load into my truck & they are all separated. Get that out of my way & I will feel like another load off my shoulders.

Have still been looking for that dang phone...it's just not anywhere that's obvious. Spending time on Amazon rather than working in order to figure out what phone to buy to replace it since I couldn't get the one from Straight Talk unlocked. Spent over 2 hours on hold with Straight Talk customer service, standing at the Walmart customer service desk on HOLD. I was sure they went home & left me hanging. Now I'm just sure that they refuse to unlock their phones so you can take them to another service provider. Not getting my business after that experience even if I would have thought to.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on overload with all the work I have to do & no one to really help. I have to focus on just one small area at a time or I end up in a panic attack feel & end up frozen & get NOTHING done.

Htoun....I hope your tests turn out OK & that nothing serious is found & it's something they can easily fix. I sure do understand how things can take longer than we think initially & then it throws off our whole schedules for everything else.

Notz.....good job....that's a LOT OF WORK you got done....a lot of HARD work.

Unaluna....LOL, I understand that no one in the kitchen. Since I live alone, after I get it cleaned up, I tell myself that so I can enjoy the clean at least for a little while. Then I have to find microwave dishes to cook.

I hate my kitchen as it's continually being invaded by ants even when I don't have food out. Then I spray cleaning stuff on them & it drowns them right in their tracks but leaves a mess on my counter. I leave the ants to dry up or they smell horrible when I clean them up. I never realized how BAD ants SMELL until I squished one & wondered what the horrible smell was & where it came from.

I still have a messy island in my kitchen to clean off & worst of all, all the cupboards. A few years ago, I had mice get into my cupboards & drawers in my kitchen. I took a lot of things out of some of the areas, but left some in but haven't gone into the cupboards for years & when I look in, they are all covered with spider webs.....haunted cupboards. I have 2 main cupboards I use & have kept clean, but those were just too much work for my energy level.

I bought shelving that I put up along one of the kitchen walls that I can keep everything on & since everything is out in sight, it keeps the mice out & it's easier to keep everything clean.....but......

The ants found a sealed container of brown sugar. They managed to get in through the rubber seal & I found the container FULL of ants. It was like they were drunk on the sugar because I picked up the container & they didn't even move. I sat it in a bowl of water & then stirred the brown sugar with a knife. The next morning they were all clustered together on the latch of the container. Sprayed them off into the water to drown them. What a mess.....oh well, it was just a small container of light brown sugar. I usually use dark brown. Dang ants come in from everywhere, not just around the windows. We are being overrun by them this year. Maybe because we didn't have all the snow this year & it wasn't as cold as other years. The ant pellets don't seem to work either. so they just keep invading my kitchen trying to find anything.

I also have a pesky mouse that won't leave. I followed a trail of ants to a bag of cookies that the mouse had chewed through the zip lock bag. Cookies I brought home that I couldn't eat from my volunteer work at the horse park. I threw the cookies into the woods.....so a few days later, I look at the little rug I have sitting at the front door because the door won't close with the runner & wanted something over the hard wood.....& the fringe was missing off the end of the rug & some strands were just laying there. Dang mouse ate my fringe after I took his cookies away. I hope it finds the mice pellets the other mice hid away in my tool box a few years ago when they took the pellets out of the container they came in & stored them away into my tool box. I chuckled about that after knowing how my rat used to store things for later eating. Had no idea that our house mice did the same thing. The pile looked a little smaller the other day & know that my dogs aren't free to run around down stairs & get into that. I am very careful NOW after one accident that happened with those pellets.

I hate it when a room is still a horrible mess & yet I can honestly say that it "looks better than it did"......I keep wondering if I will ever totally get everything cleaned up the way I really want it to be & truly ever look like a REAL house.

I keep praying for a tornado to take it out. Send the papers flying so I don't have to file them & let the neighbors wonder???? Then I can start over from the beginning & build my nice SMALL cabin for just one person & maybe one guest room & all the junk will be GONE & I can give Mother Nature the credit for cleaning house.