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Thanks! I just printed it. This could be just the thing to spur me to get my piece framed.

I took before photos, which I'm unlikely to show because they are mortifying, and began pecking away at the clutter in my office/writing/knitting room. I tossed a few things, moved several stacks of books downstairs to the bookcase, moved a box one floor closer to the basement (though am having second thoughts about putting it there), and managed to keep my wing chair clear of stuff, which makes me happy when I peer into the room. I still have a long road ahead, but I did enough (despite still recovering from the flu, which is making everything go so much more slowly than it should) to be able to see a difference, so am heartened.

I sat in my small wing chair in my office. When I first moved into my house, I sat there all of the time to read or knit or write letters. Tonight, I had to spend a few minutes clearing it off before I could sit down. The entire room has been taken over by clutter over the past year and a half. I don't do anything productive in there anymore and it made me very sad and overwhelmed. I'm not sure where to begin. I also discovered that the tension rods from two apartments ago are too long for the narrow windows in my office and dining room, so I won't be able to hang curtains until I get new ones.

I won't be able to make my list until I get home, but de-cluttering will be a large component in every room.

I have one of these in my apartment, it was about the only way it would fit in my tiny bathroom.

My biggest fear of cooking on the fly is that of coming up with something inedible. Of course, the irony is that I buy things I think I would like to eat, but put off cooking them for fear of not being able to eat the end result, and end up not being able to eat them anyway because they've gone south in the meantime.

I'm okay with making substitutions in recipes, but have a hard time working with food completely on my own.