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I don’t use my desktop computer. And it shall sit and collect dust no more! This goal was a lot more involved than just posting an old computer on Craigslist. First, I went through all the files: archived, organized, or deleted. Next, I bought a cheap small external hard drive to store all the files [...]

It’s official. I completed my first Apartment Therapy Cure. Yes, there’s always more that could be done, but I’m really proud of everything that I accomplished in the last 8 weeks (& my apartment thanks me too).
Biggest accomplishment:

Adding living room wall art (my 2nd favorite purchase, at only $15 per frame and I already had [...]

Knocking out a classic this week. Shocking as it sounds, I had never read Orwell’s Animal Farm. I liked it. It was short and full of intended symbolism and political “humor.” Yes, it belongs on the classic list.
Animal Farm (Signet Classics)

The end is here! Although I still have some Incompletes, I think my first official cure went pretty well. Now I need to clean this place up, wrap up a few little projects and call it “DONE”….. until the Spring Cure?
Week 8 - Throwing A Party
Find a recipe
Prepare your apartment the day before
Get home [...]

I’ve been scheduling a massage regularly for a few months, so I feel like it’s truly a habit now. The tricks to keeping up with massage appointments are:

Go to a hospital instead of a spa. Most hospitals have PT/rehab offices that accept any patients (check with your hospital or one that’s close to you). You [...]

You either love or hate GTD (Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity). Although the Allen-ite way of productivity seems to have lost it’s best-seller momentum, it’s still a decent way to get things accomplished. So I decided a re-read was in order. I hadn’t read this book in a few years, so it [...]

My room was featured in this week’s post on Apartment Therapy! It’s great motivation to finish the 8 week cure. Of which, I’m almost done with the “chore list” for this week. I declared yesterday Fall Cleaning (I know, it doesn’t have the same ring to it as Spring Cleaning).
Fall Cleaning:

Dust
Vacuum
Wash: sheets, duvet, mattress pad, [...]

Because you can only listening to Monster Mash so many times… I made a Halloween Mix.
Tips on making a Halloween iMix from your current iTunes library:

Search for words like: death, dead, dark, blood, evil, bone, wicked, hell or pretty much any word that conjures up scary thoughts.
Think of spooky sounding songs that you typically skip [...]

I’m not prone to falling asleep during movies, but this one sure did the trick. Maybe it’s a musical thing, anyway, A Star Is Bornwas not my kind of movie. The plot seemed very tired (no pun intended). I was bored with the movie before I fell asleep, but I assumed it would get more [...]

It’s the last room in the apartment - I’m almost done! I bought the IKEA pots/plants last week, so I think that about covers the “inspiring” part. I absolutely love the color combination of the pots and painting. So other than the general cleaning and organizing, this week I just need to decide on extra [...]