{"id":809,"date":"2010-03-25T17:19:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?p=809"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:20:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:20:05","slug":"deep-thoughts-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Deep thoughts with…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steph, Erma Bombeck<\/a> & him.\u00a0 Inspired by Carly<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Ah the art of letting things go.\u00a0 Mostly stuff, not \\”mental stuff\\” (although I am working on that) by actual physical true to life \\”stuff\\”.\u00a0 I hung out with Mr. AP on Sunday which was as always wonderful.\u00a0 He also just moved.\u00a0 So in asking my opinion on what I would do personally to make it look more like a home per say.\u00a0 I at first used the term decorate and then changed it to polish (which he said sounded less threatening) who can blame him?\u00a0 After all the last thing any guy wants is a woman to waltz in to their home no less and be all heyyyyyy i\\’ma going to let you finish but first I\\’m going to do this that and the other thing.\u00a0 He likes minimalism & who can blame him?\u00a0 I do as well to a degree, but Christ I have so much stuff its UN-freaking-real!\u00a0 I also hate bare walls & do love me some photography & art.\u00a0 So needless to say my walls aren\\’t covered in them but tastefully decorated.\u00a0 So he said I was allowed to make him some art awesome<\/em>!\u00a0 Let\\’s just hope that what I have in mind actually comes to fruition, but I think its going to look pretty damn stellar.<\/p>\n

Anyway, its spring-ish which means spring cleaning for some.\u00a0 You see, I must have inherited the pack-rat gene from my father.\u00a0 I think there\\’s also some psychosomatic need to\u00a0 \\”horde\\” things because when Jeff & I split, I had nothing.\u00a0 Well almost<\/em> nothing.\u00a0 Thanks to some good friends<\/a> and\u00a0 cheap rent, teamed up with working my butt off (not to mention some killer sales) I am the proud owner of things.\u00a0 Except I have too many things.\u00a0 I\\’m sentimental like that, I like to keep reminders of times gone by.\u00a0 People that have passed on & fond memories.\u00a0 However when it comes to the point of consuming your precious space you need to get rid of some stuff.<\/p>\n

Which led me to a poem<\/a> by Erma Bombeck:<\/p>\n

I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren\\’t there for the day.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nI would have talked less and listened more.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained or the sofa faded.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI would have eaten the popcorn in the \\’good\\’ living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life.<\/span><\/strong>
\nI would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn\\’t show soil, or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.<\/span><\/strong>
\nInstead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I\\’d have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhen my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, \\”Later. Now go get washed up for dinner.\\”<\/span><\/strong>
\nThere would have been more \\”I love you\\’s.\\” More \\”I\\’m sorry\\’s.\\”<\/span><\/strong>
\nBut mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute, look at it and really see it , live it and never give it back.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mostly the candle comment, which oddly enough we were talking about on Sunday (something to do with wedding favors or some such) and how there\\’s no point in holding onto something that you can actually use<\/em>.\u00a0 If that makes any sense?\u00a0 Also what\\’s the point of holding onto stuff that you don\\’t use\/want\/need?\u00a0 Oh right, there isn\\’t.\u00a0 So essentially I\\’m scaling down my life some.\u00a0 I cleaned out my closet (dear God what a job that was) and got rid of a ton of stuff.\u00a0 I saw no point in holding onto it \\”just because\\” . <\/em> Just because why? Its not as if its some rare one of a kind item that I can never get back again.
\nAlso a lot of it was just taking up too much damn room.\u00a0 So I\\’m breaking up with \\”stuff\\”, if I don\\’t have a practical use for it, or some hardcore emotional attachment to it, out to the curb it goes.<\/p>\n

Normally I would donate it to charity, but seeing as I don\\’t have a car craigslist<\/a> will have to suffice.\u00a0 I gave it a shot last weekend in spite of being sick and wouldn\\’t you know it 99.5% of it was gone by morning.\u00a0 That made me exceptionally happy \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 So going to finish off the job and get rid of the rest of it!<\/p>\n

Clearing out all this crap makes my head that much clearer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steph, Erma Bombeck & him.\u00a0 Inspired by Carly \ud83d\ude42 Ah the art of letting things go.\u00a0 Mostly stuff, not \\”mental stuff\\” (although I am working on that) by actual physical true to life \\”stuff\\”.\u00a0 I hung out with Mr. AP on Sunday which was as always wonderful.\u00a0 He also just moved.\u00a0 So in asking my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4,58,13,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-things","category-life-as-i-know-it","category-mr-almost-perfect","category-random-things","category-stephs-junk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modologyworld.net\/steph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}