Fortunately, just before my PC crashed I had gone on an organizing spree so I knew where all of my programs were. I had a year's worth of papers un-filed and an office that was so unorganized that I could not find anything. Everything is once again where it belongs, and I was able to unload several boxes of junk in the process. I am going to have to make a concerted effort later to go through everything again room by room and box up all of the superfluous things accumulated over the years, but for now I will settle on just getting things out of the away again.

I had some boxes of stuff from a yard sale in December, 2007. (Talk about procrastination!) To that was added about eight more boxes last year. They were taking up space in my garage. I took all of the boxes to the Salvation Army and I found out that they do pick up! That is good to know because I also have a few pieces of furniture to unload. There is a side table still in the garage that did not fit in my car.

I stopped the 'clean up' last spring when the boxes seemed to just accumulate and I could not find anyone who would pick up this stuff. Then after my son died, I just receded into this fog and stopped caring about the weeds in the yard, the junk in the garage, the piles of papers accumulating in my office... I think my life went completely out of control.

Well, this is a new year and while I have no control over anything else, I do have some control over my house.

Today I have some errands to run. I hate to admit this, but my driver's license expired on my birthday so my first priority is to get a new license today. Next order of business: renew the registration on my car- on the verge of expiring! How did I neglect things this badly? Depression wreaks absolute havoc on a person's life.