Sense of accomplishment

[Frogger]

Originally Posted by RedMage

I walked 3.6 miles yesterday.

I'll be glad when I can do that again. The doc wants me to wait a couple more years before installing the new knees.

[Reclaimed08]

Originally Posted by Frogger

I'll be glad when I can do that again. The doc wants me to wait a couple more years before installing the new knees.

It'll be a major accomplishment and we'll all be happy for you when you can walk for several miles again, Frogger!

[Reclaimed08]

I've quit, relapsed and quit again online browser gaming, online gaming and most of the mobile games I've played. If I can not only quit but delete my account on the last mobile game it'll cap an excellent year of quitting unhealthy gaming addictions for me.

[Reclaimed08]

To follow-up on my last post I did it; I sent in a request to have my account deleted on my last mobile game and therefore finally ending online gaming addiction after at least fifteen years.

This is just a small part of the work I've been doing in trauma therapy over the last couple of years.

I'm very fortunate that I have a mental health provider that's about routine and consistency because my next accomplishment is creating and completing one that focuses on exercise and reading.

[Wallingford]

Originally Posted by Wallingford

The seat of the desk chair here in "my" room needed reupholstering. I consider myself better than average at reupholstering. In fact, I reupholstered this chair myself around 15 years ago.

I'm thinking that perhaps my "planetsuzy chair" might just endure a bit more friction than a plain old rolling office chair. So I am not upset that it needs work again.

So, I disassembled the chair to reupholster the seat only, back is still factory strong. Couldn't help but noticing, damn, I was at the top of my game when I did this last time. So the standard is set high on this one.

Determined not to need more tools than I collected for the job, I was very careful to accumulate everything I needed before starting.

And wouldn't you know, the staples and the stapler are in different tool boxes! That's going to be fixed.

Suffice to say, the chair is reupholstered with all the stringent attention to detail from the last time I fixed it.

Yeahhhhh, about that bold part, last time I didn't add padding. This time I did. So here we are 11 weeks after, and the new padding in the seat is all wonky.

I threw a 30 minute quick fix at it. If this doesn't do it, it will involve a 3/4 disassembly and some more stringent (was the word I used) attention to the additional padding.

But I got off my ass and did it today. I didn't let it drag on like everything else on the "do" list.

[Frogger]

Originally Posted by Wallingford

But I got off my ass and did it today. I didn't let it drag on like everything else on the "do" list.

Is your "to do" list as long as mine?

So much to do and so little time to do it in..........

[Wallingford]

Originally Posted by Frogger

Is your "to do" list as long as mine?

So much to do and so little time to do it in..........

Got 14 on the list, some big, some small, some been on there two years. You tell me.

[Frogger]

Originally Posted by Wallingford

some been on there two years.

Sound like my list.

[Wallingford]

Feels like forever since I've checked in here. Had several discouraging setbacks, physically, financially, but I'm going to dwell on the positive here.

Finally sold the largest item on my sale site. The only place I could store the thing was on top of the lawn mower. So every time this summer that I've used the mower, I've had to move the dang thang. Big relief that is out of the garage and the money it tied up back in the bank.

When I made the sale, I decided to vacuum around the mower, and pull the dryer away from the wall and deep clean the garage. I usually do that three or four times a year anyway, but with the added space and temporary momentum, the timing was right.

Got 3000 lights up, all indoors of course. Will start the rest of the 11,000 this weekend, probably finish the back deck that is pretty limited access. Set a goal of 14,000 this year, usually try to accomplish that by Thanksgiving because some family might not make it back on Christmas. This year I just don't see how I can pull it off in the next three weeks.

Wife's bestie is due in town two weeks from now. Had to make the guest room habitable. I was using the guest room as my temporary workshop with the ironing board, piles of presents, and lights in various stages of repair.

Decided if I was putting away the ironing board, I would finish all of those projects.

Laundry here hits like a tsunami; with the difference in machine capabilities, two washer loads equals three dryer loads. Just finished the last of the third dryer load, actually in the f-ing drawers, not just a clean pile on the sofa over the dirty pile in the laundry basket on the floor.