Have people over for dinner

on Thursday! Just one friend and she helped do our dishes, but, still, it counts, doesn’t it? I think so. Now we need to do it again :)

This was greatly facilitated by our successful excavation of the dining room table. If we could clear the hutch and the sideboard, I would feel much more comfortable having a wider range of folks over. It doesn’t have to be perfect, right?

I’m embarrassed to say that we still haven’t had people over for dinner, but we are having a friend over for lunch today, so maybe that counts a little. The house has been such an impassable mess that I was embarrassed to let anyone in except for our very closest friends. In recent weeks, however, we have cleared off a couple of key horizontal services. There is still plenty of stacked up clutter, but one can sit on all the chairs and the couch in the living room and the dining room table is completely clear for the first time in about a year. So, there has been progress. I would like to make more because I want to have people over to meet the dog and I would like to have friends, colleagues and neighbors over without it being a big deal.

Having people over seems to be the only thing that motivates me to clean, that snaps me out of my depressed/anxious haze. So, I need to schedule to have some folks over.

Haven’t done this for months and months, mostly because I’ve been stressed out and the house is so messy. Time to clean things up and open up our home to other people.

we now have someone else coming in a couple of weeks!

if we’re not careful, we are in danger of breaking out of our social isolation

Friday and a week from Sunday.