Minimalize

“The shit you own ends up owning you.”

- Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Well, I haven’t updated this thing in a while. It’s just been one of those weeks. My daughter was sick all week and so I spent the majority of my days watching out for her and doing things around the house. One of the main things I’ve been doing over the last few days is going minimalist.

When I moved into my house, I had very little stuff cluttering up the place, as is usual for me moving. I’ve always loved moving into a new space, it has this clean, uncluttered feel to it. See, clutter is a bad thing for anyone – it stresses you out, because you see what isn’t getting done and they say things out of place have a certain reflection on one’s life. With ADHD it gets worse because it’s easier to get completely off track at any point. Inevitably, after a while in an apartment I would always wind up with that problem – too much stuff filling the limited space I had. Generally it made me dislike the space, feel crammed and generally stressed – because I’d constantly think of just throwing it all out, but then I’d think “Hey, I need that stuff.”

Thing is, I don’t need it. I really like to have the things I work on or do primarily and have everything else out of sight or gone. Over the last few months I’ve been feeling that way. So I’ve taken pretty much all the furniture out of my room in favor of setting up the closet to organize the clothes and all that. I’ve actually set up the room in as much of a feng shui arrangement as I can. You might think that silly, but I do put a bit of stock in the stuff – there’s research that actually backs it up; not that that proves anything. I’m not doen with all of it yet, but man the house already feels cleaner and has more space. With the minimalist look, cleaning becomes simplicity and distractions are kept very low, which allows me to get more done – accomplishment wise. Some of the stuff out in the shed in boxes will go this week and I’m trying to work up enough junk to do a garage sale or something – maybe turn some of the old junk into cash to put toward some ideas I have for the new design. All-in-all, it’s part of this transition I guess, the process of moving away from the lifestyle I almost wound up resigned to. I should reasonably have things in order to give me the best advantage by the time I get back to school.

There isn’t much ranting in this bit – no super opinions, just an update. With the kids out this weekend I got out and hung around the square a bit Friday, then went to one of Bone Doggy’s shows on Saturday night. Good times. He’s booking me to play sometime in June and July, which should be fun. Perhaps I’ll have something to actually say later this week. For now, I’m just relaxing, listening to a bit of Pink Floyd and winding down from the weekend. Life’s not too bad, all-in-all.