What do you do with your junk mail? I let it pile up, remorseful that I haven’t acted on it. Mostly it seems like charitable solicitations, insurance offers, and flyers for tours of the Rhineland, Antarctica,Egypt. Seems like the only place I don’t get a tour offer about is the Gulag Archipelago.
I spent the afternoon, whittling down this pile. It is quite a tedious chore. And there is more to be done. But I’ve just had enough.
I fixed homemade macaroni & cheese,only my recipe is more like cheese and macaroni. I don’t really know much cheddar I grated, but it was a lot. I use light cream in the sauce too. And regular old starchy macaroni, with plenty of gluten. Normally I avoid wheat, but exceptions exists, like for homemade Mac & Cheese.
So it is 1900 Hrs, 7:00 PM. Dinner has been prepared, served, and cleaned up. J is in bed, tired from work, sore also. She appreciates what I do. I found another of her stuffies, put it on the bed. She is grateful for the clean sheets.
I’m watching Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, the segment on Erasmus, The Reformation, Dürer, Montaigne, and Shakespeare. Next up will be The Counter-Reformation.
My body is aching, yearning for love. It is still a ways away.
Later.
Dispatches From Dystopia 
clean sheets and a stuffy are blissful. So is mac and cheese. Comfort food is the best. It might be a ways away, but its coming. Right now, you are showing her she can trust you with seeing her and that is HUGE. Everyone needs to be seen. You are shifting, and eventually that will create shifts in her. i am so proud of you. You deserve being held close, having everything you need. i’m rooting for you.
Thanks. I’m just letting myself have fun creating the safe space,
I’m so excited for when you pick out a new stuffy. I hope you take pictures! Then, I have an idea. You can get to know her inside by asking her to make an amazon wishlist for whatever makes her happy like she was when you got her a new stuffy. You can tell a lot about me from my wishlist and it’s a free way to take my mind off of everything
Yay! You get to court J all over again…. the joy of falling in love once again is never a bad thing. Firm believer that love and in love are totally different. ♥
Junk mail? Never makes it in the house. lol My recycle bin is always layered with junk mail.
Regarding the junk mail that comes in an envelope with a “window”, don’t you have to cut that window out, because it’s plastic? I dunno.
Nope. I used to supervise developmentally disabled adults doing a shredding work.
Everything like that went in together. Plastic window and all. It went off to be recycled from there.
At my house, we have the mixed bins. If it’s recyclable, it goes in the same bin… and plastic is recyclable. It gets sorted en mass at the recycle center.
Thanks. Saves me a lot of work.
Glad i can help
I keep a big box with junk mail and old newspapers for kindling during the winter. We have a wood burning fireplace in a couple of rooms of our house and those work great to get a good fire going. I save the wax from my scentsy once it’s lost it’s smell as well. When we use the fireplace, I’ll heat it up in a jar and then dip kindling in the wax. Not too sure if this counts as recycling, but I do reuse lots of things.
Good ideas. I say they count.