When I think back, it seems to have been a rather disjointed, unfocused week of Curing. Let's see if that perception is accurate, shall we?
What did I intend to accomplish?
Read pages 1 to 51 of M G-R's book Apartment Therapy: Done. And I had a profitable time doing the Interview. The others in the current Hybrid Cure seem to find the Interview less than helpful. I'm not sure why I'm different, but I found it useful in thinking about how my style, and indeed my self, have changed, and how I want the results of this cure to reflect that.
Read Chapter One of M G-R's Apartment Therapy: Done. Actually, I confess I've read Chapters Two and Three as well.
Write a Mission Statement for your home, and find images to support it: Although I should have waited for Alana's "how-to" for mission statements, I wrote a statement that my home will grow into, and the process of writing it helped me define where this Cure is going and where I want it to end up. I'm a little image-challenged, since I'm in the process of switching to a different computer, and haven't learned how to do some things with images that I was used to on the other computer, but I do have images in mind, and that's the main thing, even though I haven't been able to share them in this forum.
Create cleaning checklist, repair list and post daily declutter spots: None of this planning was done, which may account for the haphazard Curing that happened this week. Perhaps I'll do this for each week as I begin the new cure week each Monday. That might be better for me, to take it in bite size chunks.
Create OutBox: Not only is the OutBox created, but it is very nearly full. The friend whose garage sale will benefit from the items in my OutBox will be coming to take away the past week's OutBox offerings. (Proceeds from my part of her garage sale go toward purchasing items to fill stockings for mentally ill people at Christmastime. That fact makes me all the more eager to fill my OutBox.) This week, besides miscellaneous detritus decluttered from various parts of my home, I also OutBoxed my mother's everyday dishes -- I've kept a couple of small fruit dishes, but otherwise, it's time for someone else to be blessed by them.
Create a Cure File: Not done. It's the planning things where I've fallen short -- I think because I'd rather be "doing" than "planning". However, not planning means things are more likely to fall through the cracks and get missed, so some time will be spent on planning, and pulling together a Cure File. As Captain von Trapp says in the Sound of Music about getting fabric for Maria to make herself a new dress -- "Today, if possible."
My personal plan for the past week's Cure included:
Post Before pictures: Done.
Wipe out fridge: Done. (Although the friend I was preparing for wasn't able to come to visit, as she had flu, so I slacked off a little on the rest of the prep.) I have started decluttering the kitchen, although I didn't expect to do any of that in that room. Such is the effect of the Cure!
Wash kitchen and bathroom floors: Not done. On that "planning" list that I fully intend to *do* this week, those items will be on or near the top.
Well, it turns out I accomplished many of the tasks I'd intended, after all. I also started reorganizing the bookcase in my bedroom, to make it solely an audio-visual storage unit; I made a costume to wear to the Singalong Sound of Music (not part of the Cure, but did take up a fair bit of my time this week); I played with the floorplan tool Alana had linked to, and based on a suggestion from onshore, I have decided to rearrange my living room... not a bad week, all in all.
And I got a chance to dress as Maria (or rather, as A Problem Like Maria) and go to a Singalong Sound of Music.
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