Motivation

Ben and I have been struggling with motivation a lot lately.

We are currently trying to prep our Condo to put it on the market in the spring - this means clearing out clutter, packing stuff we don't need, and over all simplifying our life so that our Condo looks big, bright and spacious, rather than a catch all for everything we have acquired in the last 2 years.

So far so good, but we still have a lot to do.  A couple weeks ago we gutted the bedroom, moved everything out, and re-painted.  When we moved the furniture back in, we only put in the esentials.  The trick worked, with the brighter paint, and simplistic furniture our bedroom looks huge!  But now we need to move into the other rooms and do the same thing, and unfortunately our motivation left the day we finished the bedroom.

It's cold out - like really cold.  It's pretty down right miserable.  Gray skies, blowing wind, -30 temperatures.  It's gloomy, and sad outside, and unfortunately that ice cold haze has sucked the energy from Ben and I.  We trudge home at the end of the day (we walk to and from work), strip off our layers, make dinner, and cuddle up in bed to watch movies on the laptop (our couch was tossed when we did the bedroom - it was broken).

At the end of the movie, it's really hard to get up and do something in the condo.  And we have been struggling with that for the last week.  But thankfully last night we forced ourselves out of that bed,  and did something. 

We went through the desk in our living room, filed the papers sitting on top, sorted the knick knacks, threw out the stuff we no longer needed, and created a "to pack" pile.  The only thing we have left to do in the living room now, is to pack up Ben's model cars, clear off the fireplace mantle, and bring all the packed boxes sitting in the corner to our storage office at work.  Which we will be doing tonight!!  We're finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel

Bedroom - Check
Living room - Will be done tonight

What's left?

Bathroom (simplify the products, and clutter in our shelves, put up a new shower curtain and scrub floor to ceiling)
Kitchen (put away the bake ware we don't need - so the cupboard looks more spacious - better organize pantry, and pack up stuff we don't currently need (like bug spray and socket sets - yes these things are in our pantry). 

... and that's it. 

We don't have a whole lot to do.. and then we can get ready to list, which involves us finding a temporary home for our Emmy (any one interested?), and then bringing in the couch, chair, area rug, and coffee table from work to properly stage our apartment.   Then hopefully the buyers come rolling in... hopefully hopefully.  We are really hoping this sale goes as effortless as possible. 

Oh, there's actually one more thing we need to wait for before we can list - and that's the sun.  No one is buying in this weather - why would you want to move in -30?  Actually, no one is doing much of anything in this weather these days.