This weekend I had all sorts of plans to get all the quarterly records together for my tax accountant, plus make copies of them for her.  I didn’t do any of that.  Instead, I spent Friday moving furniture around, clearing out my back office, and tossing files that I no longer needed. I see former assistants had created folders and filed many things under “miscellaneous” that already had folders created for them elsewhere.  As well as making file folders for individual receipts. Grrrr! Glad I didn’t need to find them before now!  I also  found a giant folder marked “Articles To Use” from 2001, all hard copies.  Aaaugh!  Into the trash to start again.  I put 70 pounds of newsprint in the recycle bin, stuff that never should have been filed in my cabinet in the first place. This will teach me to do my own filing and to know what I have. The good news is I can consolidate down to one giant file cabinet and take the other one out to the shed.  I like to go through every piece of paper in the house on a regular basis, so I don’t turn into one of those people who has bunch of stuff that I don’t know what or where it is. When I know what I have, it seems very manageable and I feel very organized. If I don’t know what i have, I can feel scattered and overwhelmed more easily.

Saturday, for the first time in years, I got the bug to paint a couple of tables that I’ve wanted to do for a few years.  So I sat outside in the beautiful early morning and spent a few hours sanding two tables and painting them white.  They are wood tables and I like the furniture in the house to be white. I pick up little rolling tables whenever I see them and have fun sanding and painting them. Plus it gives me some good hours of exercise for the paws to counteract all the keyboard time 🙂 Here’s the larger table halfway through sanding.

I was surprised how quickly the deep finish came off with hand sanding.  I primed and painted the two tables and put them out on the driveway to dry in the sun before sealing.  Here are the two tables after being painted.  I’m hoping YinYang will stay off them until they’re dry.

As I relaxed Saturday evening, I noticed my old wooden bookcase in the corner.  I decided to pull it out and paint it white also.  Had it not been 3:00am when I noticed it, I would have taken it outside to paint it on the spot.  But of course the humidity and the dewfall would keep it from drying, so I waited until daybreak.  I woke up thinking about it and excited to get into it.

I didn’t think to take a pic of the bookcase beforehand, but it was raw wood that had been sanded smooth and lightly sealed.  It took very little sanding to take it to raw wood, then I cleaned it up to dry before painting.  Here it is afterward.  It also has small sliding doors on the bottom shelf, which makes it a cabinet.  I painted them also, but I don’t use them.

It felt good to sit in the shade on the beautiful weekend in my own driveway and work on a project.  The neighbor was having a garage sale, so there were many cars on the street, and many turning around in the grass.  We all had our windows open, and I could hear a few radios playing in the distance, and the boom boom boom of a rap song in a passing low rider.  It felt very old school and very neighborly.  I pondered that the sanding down was like uncluttering and space clearing for the wood; purging the old energy.  The painting was like setting the intention and the sealing was like the expectation and belief that would let it last for the long haul.

And although redoing the furniture was technically “work,” I felt like I’d taken the weekend off.  Painting the tables helped me add to the newness of the place, the uncluttered-ness, just as I had done when discarding 70 pounds of newsprint.  There’s always that feeling of newness and possibilities when I do any kind of space clearing, especially at full moon, such as Sunday morning’s Harvest moon.

Now, when Monday morning comes, I will be ready bright and early to compile the documents for my tax chick, and the job will go much easier due to the new space I’ve created for it.  And yes, I did miss the downtown Melbourne art festival, and the air show and even church, but I had so much fun and was so psyched about doing my project that it was all I wanted to do.

I love when that happens, out of the blue, something new grabs my attention and motivates me and delights me.  That means I’ve released my resistance enough to allow the pure positive life force energy to flow unimpeded through me.  I means I’ve unkinked my hose long enough to allow the free flow to me of good things that have been waiting for me in my vibrational escrow.

I can hardly wait to see what all that might be.

I’m not even going to check my lottery tickets until later this week, so I can bask in the possibilities of – what if?  What if?

Hmmmm, what if?

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