Practicing

I may have mentioned that this is mental health week. I'm trying not to beat myself up too much, if that's possible. I've been high anxiety and low capacity. But I'm also kinda practicing for retirement. What's going to work for me? What do I need in order to be able to enjoy it?

I need to do one productive thing per day. That allows me to enjoy the other things. So this is my yesterday:

• Hanging with mrguy, drinking coffee and talking about politics and cancer
• Genealogy research
• Making organizational schema for family documents
• Estate stuff / Important Mom Docs
• Real estate: past real estate information
• Real estate: tenants, subtenants, floor plans, money stuff
• Family trust stuff

• Office supply store for clear bins
• Sorting, sorting sorting
• Office supply store to swap broken clear bin for an unbroken one

Why would I do this on my week off? Because I want to sort these documents into categories that I know I can discard without worry as soon as possible. I have ten boxes of family stuff in my garage and two empty file cabinets that I want to get rid of. I don't want the emotional burden and the physical space that it takes up. Maybe I'll look at the jade fruit and stuff next. I want to know what I have here at my house.

Then I rewatched the D.A. Pennebaker documentary "'Original Cast Album: “Company'”. I have had "Ladies Who Lunch" stuck in my head for days. Then I looked up where I could listen to the digitized Frontera Collection, and listened to some recordings by Marta Triana and Manuelita Arriola.

A good first weekday.