• Decluttering,  Depression,  Mental Health,  Projects,  Retirement

    Final DeCluttering: Minimalists Won’t Like It

    Here’s the final episode of going through our kitchen cabinets to declutter. You can watch it HERE. George had already gone through the cabinets a year ago and consulted me on a few things but we wanted to go through them again now that I’m retired and get rid of a few more things, which we did. We have a lot of cabinet space, so if it gave us joy and we anticipated that we could still use it, we kept it. We have additional cabinets down stairs (almost an entire kitchen but without the sink and stove, but we do have a downstairs fridge). We had fun with the…

  • Books,  Tea

    The Tea Center, Books I’m Reading, and Information Technology Crisis

    The Tea Center Just a few notes from today. My long awaited STASH “tea center” arrived in it’s bamboo container, just like the one we had at work. I added all the specialty tea bags I already had to the mix. I barely got it in and it’s in sections (sort of). After a while of trying to keep I sorted by type of tea (berries, mints, chamomile, chai, green tea, black tea, white tea, etc), I finally had to stick my “Constant Comment” tea anywhere it would fit in the backs of each one, lol. Do you think we are set for a while? The STASH tea is better…

  • Books,  Grandkids,  Retirement,  Vlogging,  YouTube

    Monetized on YouTube, Crushing My Goals!

    So, a little thing happened this week. I met my goal of 1,000 subscribers a bit early. I had figured by Thanksgiving and then actually said it was ok by Jan or Feb of 2025 so I’d have time to deal with becoming monetized. Well…thanks to my giving notice video, I met that goal last week and am now at 3,000 subscribers which I met overnight. I’m so honored and thrilled. Of course over the weekend I followed the steps that YouTube had outlined for me, after I got their email that I could apply for the YouTube Partner program. That included a verification process, email and info, applying for…