Gracie in Oakland's Profile

I, too, have done a lot of this and that but haven't been real committed to the schedule - mostly because I've been travelling (I haven't had a full weekend at home since the cure started).

That said I've made a marvelous effort at creating several outboxes. They just need to get out of the apartment now. I did buy a potted orchid. I don't have the available surfaces for buying flowers weekly - plus I wasn't expecting it to live that long. I contacted my landlord about getting rid of some of the items she left for my use. I've purchased a mop (but haven't used it yet). I like the flow in my apartment much better than I did before.

THere's a lot of behaviors I need to modify in general - doing laundry regularly and not letting it stack up since I now I have regular access to laundry for free. Washing dishes right after dinner or at least every morning. Making my bed, etc.

I also don't have the "head" of my apartment quite right. I don't have a space to work or even to put work stuff. Or to eat. I have my chair and my bed. Hopefully getting my couch will make a difference, but in the meantime it's annoying. The kitchen is still bothering me. It's causing me lots of angst. I may end up hanging shelves very soon. Need to see if my friend will do it - I think he knows how to.

Otherwise - I'm enjoying my apartment when I get it neat. But I need to work on keeping it like that.

Also - question. I have 8 pictures in 11(h) by 10(w) frames that I want to hang on the wall above my bed. 4 are black frames, 4 are white - but the pictures do make sense together. I was thinking 2 rows of 4 (bwbw,wbwb) but I'm not sure of the centering. My bed is centered over the wall, but this is the longest uninterrupted wall in the apartment (11ft) - I'm afraid that centering it over my bed would make the room look too small.

Any recommendations/thoughts?