Things That Are Holding Me Back

1st. off, Best Friend has informed me that she might be moving back in at the end of August. It seems the way she is affording her apartment was deferring a college loan. But the deferment is up in August and the $300 is her food money. So, she needs to find a second job, or a roommate, but nothing seems to be happening in that directions. The jobs she applies for, don't call her back and while she has placed an ad with roommate.coms, she doesn't want to with the local paper, saying it's too much money. She's had one response, from a married couple, but she never said what became of that. I'm going to ask at the florist if she can work on Saturdays.

Since part of my cleaning and de-cluttering process was going to be getting her stuff out of my house, [and boy howdy, does she have a lot of stuff for someone, who's only lived in a dorm room or one bedroom. Two closets, stacks of boxes in the dining room, AND living room!] This has made me slow down and rethink my plans. How to rearrange? BF says that most of her stuff is disposable. But I can't throw HER stuff away, she has to. So I have to get together with her and make her throw her stuff out. The rest? Well I guess I can reroute and clean the living room first, so I can put her stuff in the old radio room (enclosed patio). Which is where the kitty litter boxes are going. I'm also going to throw away the futon and chair mattresses, because a certain cat keeps peeing on them. I will replace them with dog pillows that I will scotch guard. The reason I wanted to do the living room last was, that I am afraid that if I do it, I will stop there. Now that the kitchen is clean I spend a lot of my time in there. While enorging the pantry. The filthy cluttered pantry, filled with non food items, things that are too old, or belongs to others, useless STUFF. I can see me doing this. I will need encouragement from my friends and family.

2nd hold back is simply. . . money. I don't have money for the dog pillows, I don't have money for a dumpster, I don't have money for a haul away service. I just have time and the willingness to do it, on my vacation. I will cope,. . . somehow.