February 2022 - Getting My Act Together

February 24, 2022

7 Bible Verses for Strength When the World Feels Shaky

Sometimes the world feels like shaky ground, and hope can feel far away. We need to find a good word from the Bible that gives us strength to face our worries. I really don’t know how unbelievers manage to stay sane. Does anyone else feel like the definition of dreary right now? I have a head cold and was up coughing for the past three nights. The sky is dreary and cold, and then there’s all the scary world news. As an Army wife and just a dweller of Earth, this is scary news. You do not have to live […]

February 19, 2022

10 Upbeat Songs for When You Need a Pick-Me-Up

There are times in my life when I don’t even realize how down I am, and how much I need a quick musical pick-me-up until I hear a song that just gets me off my rear or out of the dumps. I have a whole playlist of mostly uplifting songs over at YouTube you can also check out. I call it my “House Cleaning Jams.” These are my Top 10. I have them on my Spotify playlist and basically stashed away anywhere I can save music because they are just happy songs. Sometimes a happy song is the ONLY thing […]

February 14, 2022

Ta-Daaaa! Before & After Photos From Cleaning Out the Storage Room

I have this lengthy list of things we have to do to get our house ready for the housing market. BUT it is such a wonderful feeling to have my second storage room DONE. So of course, I made a video about it. Daniel told me I should make one of those time-lapse videos where it shows you cleaning in super speed, so I made one and put it on the ends of this update video: I’m also learning more about how to make decent YouTube videos….. Sorry, I did not learn in time to not film the ceiling while […]

February 7, 2022

Some things must be kept: Here is what to keep.

Some things must be kept, but you cannot hoard everything. So how do you know what to keep and what to get rid of? Sometimes I get so busy with house cleaning chores that I forget to do the things that I feel driven to do, to write. Writing was always my default. From age eight, it was what I did. I have volumes of journals and blogs. Occasionally, when I was a kid, there was even a poem or a short story. Oh, and letters, I have written so many letters. Letters. Remember letters? I have boxes of old […]

February 1, 2022

How to Minimize and Enjoy Memory and Photo Storage

In our new age of taking tons of photos, memorabilia and photo storage can be a problem. I’ve been documenting the process of cleaning out my storage room, in preparation for yet another Army move. In the process, I am finding a LOT of photos and memorabilia. Sometimes the memorabilia can be the hardest piece of the storage puzzle to find a good place for. Plus, there’s always the dilemma of what to keep and what not to keep. Aye yie yie, right? ***When you purchase through Amazon links on my page, I do collect advertising fees.*** What good does […]