cthunter01

Yesterday I made some good progress towards minimizing. I went through my whole closet and cleared it out. Completely. Most of my clothes are now in sacks to give away to Goodwill. I’ve managed to pare down to roughly 10 outfits. Since I live in Colorado where we have 4 seasons, I need to keep winter and summer clothes around all year. So I’m keeping a few wool sweaters and about 6 T-shirts. Plus a few “in-betweens”, if you will. I will just use my dresser from now on to store my clothes.

On another note, I found a box in the deepest recess of the closet with some of my old high school clothes. Things I haven’t seen or worn in 10 years. I’ve gotten into pretty good shape since I started using my bicycle for transportation a year ago, so I was curious to see if they still fit. And they do! The shorts are about 1 inch LARGER in the waist than I would buy now, but the shirts are the same size shirts I wear today. :-) I thought that was pretty cool, so I took some pictures with me wearing them and will post them on facebook to brag to my old high school buddies. :-D I’m still giving them away, though, since I don’t need them anymore.

Success! Well, sort of. I woke up really early today. Around 4:30. I got up at 5:00, as the longer I lay there the more I realized I wasn’t going back to sleep. I went to bed about 9:30, so I got 7.5 hours of rest.

Now I just need to stay up all day and get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight and I should be on my way to becoming an early riser!

Wow, I failed miserably today. I took a melatonin and some Tylenol PM when I went to bed last night, and didn’t get up until after 13:00. I knew I shouldn’t have taken those Tylenol PMs, as they usually make me sleep for an outrageous length of time (like 12+ hours), but I thought maybe I could get up anyway. I wasn’t tired by the time I needed to get to bed so I took them, and that was a mistake.

I’m going to see if I can get an Ambien from someone for tonight to help me get back on track.