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Stairway to 2024
Dear Conscience, What’s done is done. I won’t be home until the New Years. I’ll try to use this time to manage the trip better (for example, unpacking properly instead of living out of a jumbled suitcase mess), use pockets of time to get some things done (to reduce even by a little bit the Continue reading
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How a Messy Life Messes with You
Dear Conscience, Here’s the problem with me trying to unmess myself: I have messes in so many aspects of my life that as I try to focus on cleaning up one, the other sets me back again. The current example is that a partner I collaborate with is in town, and I’ll host them. But Continue reading
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Space At Last
Dear Conscience, I’m writing in a short break after about 45 minutes of clearing out a huge storage dump that our bedroom has turned into. Yes, only 45 minutes, and I only have an hour and a half left at most. I was delayed though by a very important conversation with my husband, about some Continue reading
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All-nighters in Sight
Dear Conscience, Hello again. I’ve been away, but haven’t forgotten about you. It’s yet again one of those last minute periods when I’m running around and panicking. Even through I’ve behaved semi-accountable recently, my lifestyle of mess and procrastination is catching up with any progress I make. For example, I wanted to pack early (3 Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 