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I am slowly coming out of whatever-it-is I have been in. I sometimes call it "circling the pit," the pit being depression. So, in these past few days I haven’t been deeply depressed, just a bit depressed. I have taken showers and washed my hair–I have even opened a box or two, but I haven’t put anything away or been for a walk even to the mail box which is very close. And it is no excuse to tell myself it was raining all day. I have an umbrella {actually I have three umbrellas} and it would have done me good to get out. But this morning I feel a bit more optimistic. It helps that the rain has stopped and that we are supposed to see sun today. {Which reminds me I haven’t found my SAD light–but there are plenty of boxes left.}

Today Jake is coming over and thus the big black trash bags and the flattened boxes will be out of here. Up to this point, he has been coming on Saturdays and doing this but last weekend he had to work both days so this stuff has piled up.

Goals for today:

• Get these boxes and bags out of here so I can get to the door without climbing over them
• Ask Jake to move a pile of unopened boxes so my desk can be moved
• Ask Jake to move said desk to the bedroom.
• Maybe get the art table that Jake is going to store out of the living room?
• Printer! I forgot the printer! Actually, I can set this up myself if I have to. I did it when I bought the printer…

Goals for next week:

• Get a bank account locally.{ I can probably get that done this week if I put my mind to it.}

Goals for the near future:

• Plan on going round the store on my feet for the next lot of groceries.{ I am still irritated by the substitution of chocolate ice cream for what I ordered. I know I didn’t check the substitutions box because I was called about something else I ordered and asked about a substitute. Y’know, if it had been vanilla ice cream, I would have been happy about It but I don’t like chocolate ice cream! I am not complaining to management about it because it may have been my error–a small chance but nevertheless a chance that I clicked the wrong box.} I am thinking that if I can manage to walk or ride a cart, I will use the pickup for heavy things and things that I buy in bulk like toilet paper and paper towels.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

– Oscar Wilde

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone. ~Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers}