Learning to be ruthless

I'm learning to be ruthless in my "purging" this time around. I had thought I was ruthless over the past year, but now I'm being more so, and expect to be even more ruthless in the next purge--and I know I will need to do this more than once.

The car went in for an oil change yesterday.  I took a bit of EPP along with me, sat, stitched and drank my Tim's coffee, and no-one even appeared to notice.  They had a coffee machine and every customer got a free token.  My mind must have wandered.  I pushed the button for my espresso but chose a "long espresso" thinking it might be more like my usual "pour over".  Nope it was still espresso but maybe with enough water added to equal the amount of the tiny espresso serving.  Strong enough to almost choke me.  I drank it though.

After, we went grocery shopping.  Why am I buying all of this food?  Maybe over-caffeinated from the espresso?  Both freezers are full, and the pantry is over-full. There are enough fruit and vegetables in the fridge to last a couple of weeks, even though I know the fruit and veggies probably won't last quite that long.  Maybe I'm looking for an element of control  during a time when we are "reacting" not "proacting".  Ah well, this too, shill pass. 

Not heading out to Lorette today as we have a man coming for a "consultation" regarding Black Mold.  In discussing plans for getting the house ready for sale, we decided that dealing with that would be the first step.  The final cost of remediation will determine how far we go in future.  Right now it looks like a garage sale later this summer, and another one early next summer, that will include an awful lot of furniture.

Best get on with the day. Since the mold is in the master bedroom, I need to get everything "shipshape" before he gets here.  And it begins.

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