#2582 Saturday with Sandy

I've had a pretty good day! I started out with MT and the dogs at the dog park. We got there around 8:15 or so and spent about 30 minutes there. I think the dogs could have stayed longer, but I actually had somewhere to be at 9:15: the first in-person WW workshop in West Valley in well over a year!

This may sound corny, but it was so great to sit in a room with other WW members - my people, my tribe, so to speak. When Coach Lana walked in to start the meeting, we all clapped and cheered and got a little misty-eyed. We laughed, we cheered for each other, we talked about the good and bad of the past year, and it felt right and good. 

The topic of the workshop struck a chord with me. It was about setting up your bedroom to have a good night's sleep. Sleep is one of the 4 WW pillars, meaning that sleep is very important to our health and to achieving weight loss. We talked about decluttering our bedrooms, among other things, and since decluttering was one of the things that I talked about in my last post, I decided that today was the day to tidy up my bedroom.

There are six flat surfaces, not including the floor, in my bedroom. Two of the surfaces are mine, one is common area, and the other three are MT's. My goal was to tidy up each of those surfaces. Here are before photos of my surfaces and the common area:

This is my nighstand right next to the bed. Disgraceful.

Here is the top of my dresser. It's just cluttered and had become a catch-all space for random stuff.

This little table holds the TV gadgets and other assorted stuff we pile on it.

For each surface, I removed everything from it and dusted it. (Everything was pretty dusty.) The next step was to put back stuff that I wanted and find homes for other stuff or just toss it. I did end up throwing a few things away, and when I actually thought about some of the things, I realized that I didn't need them right there by me at all. I did dust and clean up a bit of MT's things, but I didn't know what he wanted to keep or toss, so I basically just put stuff back, but a little nicer. I spent about an hour total on the spaces. Here are the after pics:

I feel like I still have some work to do on the bottom shelf of the night stand, but I'm a lot happier with the top and middle shelf. I had my TBR book pile on the to shelf, and I realized it was kind of stressing me out! It was a bizarre realization. I love to read, but having the pile sitting there made me feel like I wasn't reading fast enough or something. It's dumb, I know. Anxiety is a strange creature.

I ended up moving those books to the left corner of my dresser and seating the meditating dragon on top of them. It's kind of funny because this space actually took me the longest because I had a bunch of little knick-knacks there that I kept moving around, but it still felt really cluttered to me, even though I liked all of my things. Now when I look at the top of my dresser, I feel much more calm. 

Finally, here is the little common space table. I had a stack of books (of course) on it that simply didn't need to be there. All that's there now is the TV stuff, a plant, and a photo. I like it!

MT really liked the results of my labor, too. He hates clutter, but is just as guilty of it as I am. 

After the hour of tidying, I read for a little while and took a nap. I do love a nice nap.

You know,  I have to tell you that as much as I love Red Butte Garden, not spending lots of hours there on Saturdays is good for me. In 2019, it felt like Saturdays belonged to RBG, and it tired me out, to be honest. Since the Garden was closed for much of last summer, I didn't go there at all, of course. This year, the docent gig in the Courtyard looks different because the Garden is not providing the little golf cart tram to show people around, so if a docent does sit in the Courtyard, it is to answer questions, of which there were never very many. Plus, the requirement is four hours/shift instead of two (I was there from 1 -3 on Saturday afternoons.) I simply can't see sitting out in the Courtyard for four hours on a hot Saturday afternoon. It has been nice to spend Saturdays at home. 

Overall, I feel like I made good progress on getting my bedroom cleaned up a bit. There are a few other things I'd like to do, but it is a good start and I am happy about it!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!