My husband has joked before that “Well, That Didn’t Go As Planned” would be a great title for a memoir. It also, as it turns out, describes last week pretty well.
Between my still-recovering repetitive strain injury, house sitting for my dad, and general chronic procrastination, I did not get done what I had planned to prepare for the sale. I decided I was fine with that, since I was already mostly organized from the last sale; it just meant I didn’t have a lot of new stuff.
So we went to bed early (for a pre-show night) Friday night, figuring at least we could get some decent sleep before the sale.
…Only to be awakened at 3am by gunshots.
It turned out some kids that had been partying in the community’s clubhouse and someone brought a gun. After that, we were awake off and on the rest of the night, watching the drama (or what we could see of it from our window) unfold. Cast of characters: several dumb kids, the police, and at least one police dog.
It was all over by about 7am. We had to get up at 7:30am. Adrenaline and caffeine kept me going at the sale, but I pretty much crashed afterward, and we spent a slow Sunday recovering.
So ended a crazy week in which I feel like I procrastinated all week, but still somehow achieved a decent amount of my goals:
Writing
I wrote two blog posts and posted to Instagram once last week, achieving the goal of one blog post and one IG post per week. Working on my novel I did less well, with just two days of writing, but I rather expected that with all the pre-sale stress.
Decluttering and Organization
I did organize the sale stuff a little better when we brought it all home (although I still have more to do), but I’m going to count it and consider this goal of one decluttering or organization project per week to have been achieved.
Dolls
I restrung one of my sale dolls during a slow moment at the sale, so I’m also counting this goal (one doll project per week) achieved.
Taxes
Nope. Nada. But this was expected.
Lessons Learned
I suppose I learned that a week can feel like a hot mess and I can get nothing done, but still make it look good on paper? But I’ll take it as a win, because why not.
More importantly, I’m feeling motivated to do more of these things (like organizing, and working on dolls). Hopefully I can keep up working on all of this at a more normal pace now, without the crazy looming deadline stressing me out.
All of that being said, the next two weeks will be really busy. We’re house sitting for my husband’s parents, which means we’ll be traveling back and forth between the two houses for the next week — always time consuming. But hopefully with the dogs at the in-laws’ house with my husband (who will be working from their house for the next week), I’ll be able to get some good organization done even with the more limited time.
Fingers crossed…!