The magic of tidying

Yes exactly @TAB

I don’t care how things are normally but if I am walking in with someone else I see the mess through new eyes and I feel embarrassed. I wish I could be tidier.

Meggle

@Oaktree @NatureLover @Dimity For some reason probably cos moved so much, I am a tidy as I go type. Like that when I cook. My house looks a bit like laundry cos I do not want a dryer and often dry things near sunny windows and by heater ...lol ... but its very superficial mess mainly. Yet I cant abide super tidy and clean uber holier than tho. ... hence my approximately tidy ... phrase ... I figure the real clean types never had to move as much as me ... lol Mind you I have now been in one place for 20 years ... and it feels good to have sent my roots down with my garden plants ...I can contemplate how much of which shade of green leaf should get sun or be pruned. Never pruned in me life ... til recently ... it feels like flower arranging ... but not in a vase.

I like the way things look and feel when clean and tidy , but somehow mess is in my comfort zone @Oaktree I think it makes me feel more secure somehow, dunno, anyway, heading out into rain now, as its not stopping and have done nothing here today lol

Well done @Appleblossom

I wish for approximately tidy. My house is mainly messy. I love to prune but I get a bit carried away. My lime tree is only tiny and I wonder if a light prune would help it but I also wonder if I am capable of only lightly pruning something lol.
I wish I could see your garden. It sounds wonderful!

Meggle

Try not to get wet @TAB

Meggle

hope not but yeah, thanks @Oaktree

@Oaktree I can understand cleaning for the cleaner. I found having a cleaner very invasive. I had them for about 18 months but none for last couple years. It helped while I was still on heavier meds and had allowed things to pile a bit. One cleaner was mean and racist and the other was nice, but moved and I let it go.

I am weird in that I do not seem to know these things ahead of time. I agree to the plan, but feel very uncomfortable and eventually change it. I also stopped having disability support workers recently, and am using plan mainly for physio and counselling and civic participation, I really do what I can myself. Like trimming jasmine with hand shears is good for activiating my back muscles which I also need when playing piano ... believe it or not. lol

I cannot say I do not care what people think, as I got into a tiz when had a visitor last week ... so am gathering old apple needs her quiet and space more than busy support. We are all, different, but it has been a process for me to figure out what my needs actually are.

@Appleblossom @Dimity @TAB @NatureLover @MDT

The cleaner is here now and I feel so stressed. I gave her my list which I sms’d her yesterday. She had her daughter decipher it into her language because she doesn’t speak English very well. She is from the middle east and speaks Arabic.

My husband is at work today, normally when the cleaner is here, he has been at home to calm me down. I hope she gets done quickly but gets everything on the list done.

Meggle

Good Luck @Oaktree 😊

Thanks @TAB

Sitting in the bedroom now and letting her get on with it.

Meggle