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Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

Clutter. Who wants it, who needs it. I’ve heard hoarders feel secure when they have their possessions all around that it gives them a good feeling. I am not a hoarder and it doesn’t make me feel happy, it actually makes me feel 🫥 depressed when I see a bunch of clutter so I try to stay on top of it. When I walked into a messy room before I would survey it and mentally calculate what needed done then scurry around with no plan just putting this away and that away from different sides of the room. Now I at least make a plan. I’ll start at the top of the room on one side and work my way down when I’m doing a deep cleaning 🧹🧼. Dust, wipe down walls, go through cabinets clear counters, what to keep, what to pitch what to give away. This way working on one side of a room at a time I have less chaos and can do a more thorough cleaning and it’s not as overwhelming as when I try to do the whole room at once.

What is your favorite animal?

My favorite animal is the cat. I have three, they are rascals but wouldn’t give them up for anything. Charlie, the black and white cow cat is 18 months , Orangey I’m not sure of his age as we took him in as a stray this past summer. Iris will be 11 and we’ve had her since she was 6 weeks old. She was a stray born in our yard.

In what ways do you communicate online?

I think a lot of online communication apps are overblown and you can have soooooo many of them. Mist in my opinion are nonsense. My favorite one to communicate on isy blog. I also have FB, use it for book promotion, X, same thing, IG I’m ready to delete and also ready to delete Pinterest. At one time I used Pinterest to look at pictures but haven’t used it in years. I have LinkedIn and that’s another book thing as well. I use Goodreads for communication about book challenges I am doing. Let’s see, the kids schools use several communication apps you have to have as well. It’s all too much!

Think back on your most memorable road trip.

My most recent memorable road trip was several years ago. It was an anniversary trip and we spent time exploring all the New England states. The states are beautiful and we had such a wonderful time.

Boston harbor

What snack would you eat right now?

A fruit bowl with all my favorites sounds so good right now as long as they’re fresh. Cherries, watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, mango, pineapple,papaya, cantaloupe,honeydew, grapes especially green grapes, blackberries, bananas I’m sure I’m missing some but you get the gist of it. Now I’m hungry for this tropical paradise. 😁

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

When I was a young child I had barbie dolls as many young girls do. Growing up there wasn’t a lot of money for things past the essentials but that’s okay it taught me some great life lessons that I still practice today. Getting back to what I was saying, my dolls didn’t have the fancy sequined party dresses other girls dolls had, the tiny shoes or the many little accessories that go with them. What I did have the other girls didn’t was a box of Barbie clothes my grandmother made for them and the clothes even had elastic, zippers, buttons and snaps. My grandmother was an excellent seamstress. Oh how I regret getting rid of those clothes as when I no longer played with Barbies I didn’t want the clothes but I was too young to make that decision to give away such valuable items. I wish my mother had stepped in and kept them safe for me because I don’t know what happened to them.

What is your mission?

To be an upstanding American citizen treating people and animals with respect.

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

Our first impulse is to say yes, I want to live a long life and yes, that is mine as well.

But, I want to live a long life full of health , I don’t have daily pain but I don’t want it to accompany me as I age I want to be mentally capable of making the correct decisions. My grandmother, Hazel had dementia. I pray I never get it or my husband whose father had it I am a vegetarian for several reasons, to help the environment, I can’t stand the thought of a poor animal suffering and dying for me to eat it and also for my health and contributing to its longevity. Many people take at least one medication daily and they have a multitude of reasons for it that they can’t help. I feel very fortunate that I don’t have any prescriptions I need to take. As you age your loved ones die off and you become lonely . Yes, you have the younger generations but you’re never as close to them as you are with your immediate family. So yes, there are pros and cons to longevity that is more so than the average life span.

What could you do differently?

I could do a lot of things differently in my mind but since we can’t do that I have to only move forward in a positive manner.

What is your all time favorite automobile?

Well let’s see, if you were to ask my favorite type of car it would be this one.