Challenge: Days 25-29

Dang, sorry!  I know I haven't  posted since Monday, so here's the scoop.

Day 25:  I got my assistant a gift.  She likes to do cooking activities with our class and she was eying a cookbook at the Book Fair, so I got it for her.  She loved it.

Day 26:On Wednesday I had a good conversation with my new boss.  She is feeling a little "out of the loop" so I made sure to talk about some stuff that is coming up that she may not know about yet.  We tend to plan things, let everyone know, then not really send out reminders as things come up, so this is not really surprising, and nobody means to not let her know things, but she was not here for the start of the plans going on now, so she wasn't notified.  This is rectified now.  

Day 27:On Thursday, my new boss went to a meeting with our big boss, and I reassured her about the things she wanted to talk to him about.  This was her first meeting with him, and he's not always an open book.  

Day 28:On Friday, I gave a coworker a ride to work.  Her car is giving her a lot of problems lately, and I know how that feels!  Anyway, we had a lovely chat on the way to work.  I might try to institute an occasional ride together just for the chat.

Day 29: Today I made sure my daughter and I did something fun.  We've been financially strapped a lot lately, so we went to the bookstore and had a nice drink and looked at magazines and books.  I have really curtailed my book-buying over the last year.  Kaleigh went to the pet store and took pictures of adorable kittens and puppies.  Typical.

I also cleaned out my closet this morning.  I mean REALLY cleaned it out.  Ruthlessly.  I took everything out, and tried it on before deciding whether to keep, toss or donate.  If I haven't worn it in the last couple of months (except for cold-weather items), I donated it.  If it didn't look good or fit properly, I donated it.  As the donation pile got bigger, it got easier to do.  Anything that needed alterations went into another pile--ONLY if I was sure I would do the alteration.  Anything that was worn out went into the toss pile.  Very liberating.  If the item made the cut, I went back into the closet where it belonged.  I put my work clothes on the left (outfits together on the hanger), odd stuff in the middle with dresses, dress clothes on the right, and jackets, sweaters and winter coat on the far right.  I'm not kidding when I say I have about 1/3 of what I had hanging in there yesterday.  I immediately took the donate stuff to Goodwill, and threw out the garbage.  I even got rid (GASP!) of several pair of shoes.  While I'm not a proponent of that, I figure it makes room for new shoes.  Okay, not exactly ROOM, but you get my meaning.  

Tomorrow I'm going to tackle the sewing room.  I'm a very messy sewer (seamstress, not something to do with sewage), and I want to get the room ready for the things I want to work on for Christmas presents.  I have lots of quilt tops too, so I'd like to get some of those done.  

Tomorrow I'm also going to pull out my green bean plants, they are eaten up by something.  I have no idea what, but they look awful.  The squash never had ANY female flowers, only male flowers, so I didn't get ONE, SINGLE SQUASH!  Damn it!  Very disappointing.  Especially since I couldn't figure out why so I didn't learn anything to do differently next time.  My passion plant has caterpillars on it--this is absolutely the mark of success.  That means they will eat some leaves, but I will have more butterflies, which is a wonderful thing.   The world needs more miracles, and butterflies are miracles for sure.