Looks like my organizational and decluttering energy is back after a two week retreat into grief rebound. (But I am meeting with a counselor next Tuesday and starting a 6-week grief group next Thursday -- can't hurt.)

This morning I sorted through a two and a half foot high pile of rubberstamp catalogues and ephemera from the 1980s and tossed everything except the copies of National Stampographic (and the couple copies of Rubberstampmadness misfiled there).

Yesterday I stored a couple boxes of photographs temporarily (gets them off the bedroom floor!) in the closet, got the last of the Christmas decorations stowed in the boxes in the closet (and out of the guest room!), and put a box of letters and saved email printouts (I TOLD you I'm a compulsive archivist!) in chronological order. Also pulled some information from those missives and inserted them into the yearly archived calendars. And updated 2007.

Today is the monthly sea music singaround at The Press Room, so I'm done decluttering cultch for the day. And tomorrow I'm spending with a friend and we'll wind up at Great Bay Sailor's pre-St. Patrick's show at The Press Room, so that's a social day rather than a work day.

Oh, and Trevor finally relieved me of the roll of leather hides I'd had for him in the backseat of the car for the past several months. Yeehah! AND he was thrilled. (He's an artist who does amazing masks and things of molded leather.) Got some more art materials that need to find homes, too.

Linn

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