[bizi]

I walked home from the pub when it was just dark, don't like to do that but it is only 3 blocks from our house. I vowed to never drink and drive and I am sticking to that vow.
bizi

[Lara]

Originally Posted by Mari

Hi,I want to taper off Gabapentin (Neurotin) if I can.
A few mins ago I took roughly 1.50 mgs (one and a half capsules) instead of my usual 200 mgs.

Mari,
Is that a typo.?

Just double checking!

Edited:

I don't know anything about Neurontin so looked it up.
I'm guessing you meant 150mg instead of usual 200mg.
Sorry about that. I just didn't understand what you'd taken.

[Mari]

Originally Posted by Lara

Mari,
Is that a typo.?

Just double checking!

Edited:

I don't know anything about Neurontin so looked it up.
I'm guessing you meant 150mg instead of usual 200mg.
Sorry about that. I just didn't understand what you'd taken.

Lara


Thanks for that. Yeah, big typo!

M

[Mari]

Originally Posted by bizi

I walked home from the pub when it was just dark, don't like to do that but it is only 3 blocks from our house. I vowed to never drink and drive and I am sticking to that vow.
bizi

Biz,

I am proud of you.
Walking home is very very good.

Mari

[Mari]

Hi,

I have a small closet perfect for my work clothes
The second and larger closet is so jammed that it is overflowing into my computer room.
Time for a purge –- so difficult but necessary.


I have stuff in two categories:

Things that will stay in the closet:
Clothes on hangers, shoes in a shoe tree, and necklaces on a necklace tree.
Two boxes labeled piano music
Containers of hand-written journals from teenage years to my 30s
Suitcase and overnight bag


Things that can be reduced or eliminated:
Purses, book bags, lunch bags
Two photo albums. Photos loose in envelops in a box
Wall art. Incomplete wall art project. Poster w/out frame. Special fabric Mom gave me for a craft project, and the like

Fluorescent Sun Light I bought many years ago and used twice

Old eMac. Keyboard for eMac. Two boxes of computer stuff (old and new)

Organized folders somewhat related to work
A few folders from work friend who died
Two or three boxes/ plastic bins from graduate school
Two big plastic bins of empty notebooks, plastic envelopes, and folders
Huge box that holds several boxes of colored computer paper.

One milk crate sized container that appears to be full of junk
Empty milk crates stacked inside each other.


M

[waves]

Good job with the initial sort/categorization, Mari.

I wish you well with the reduction/elimination process. This stuff is hard to do.



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[Mari]

Waves,

Yes. Especially since I have stuff OUTSIDE the closet that is in the way.
I made that inventory to try to figure out where to start.
Here is a blog / book on getting rid of stuff.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2...ving_with.html

I started small, asked myself: What if you removed one material possession—just one—from your life each day for a month? What would happen?

The result: I unloaded way more than thirty items in the first thirty days. It became a kind of personal challenge,

So I’m forced to ask the same important question over and over again: Does this thing add value to my life?

M

[Brokenfriend]

Mari My closet. I have allot of stuff in there,but it's a very large closet. LARGE CLOSET! I sorted out the things that where of value when I moved here nine years ago in a hurry. The hurry was because they closed the whole apartment complex where I lived,and kicked all five hundred people,give or take, out. They sold it because some company offered a top dollar deal that they couldn't refuse. I ended up throwing away many things into a very large dumpster the size of a small truck container. I regret throwing some of those things away. BF

[bizi]

good for you for tackling this. What a large task, break it into smaller parts.
you are being brave starting this.
bizi

[waves]

Hi, Mari

how is the closet/stuff reduction coming along?

Originally Posted by Mari

Waves,

Yes. Especially since I have stuff OUTSIDE the closet that is in the way.

Eeek. Yeah. Would it be possible to focus more on the outside parts than the inside for now?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2...ving_with.html

That's a good way to look at it.... does this add value to my life...

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