As a part of my 30 Day Challenge, I was supposed to declutter my life. Unfortunately, I really can’t have a go at this one because my life is disconnected at the moment. I live in Ukraine and the bulk of my things are back in America in my parents attic.

When I finally get myself to go through things and throw stuff away, I love doing it. But getting to that point is difficult for me. I was disappointed today when I had a reason and a motivation to throw stuff away and get rid of things I don’t use and I wasn’t able to do it. I did go through my apartment here in Ukraine and straighten things up and fill a bag with trash, but I wish I could have done more.

I think this is something I should do more often, especially as I watch other volunteers pack up their things at the end of their service. They accumulate a lot of crap and then they have to figure out what to do with all of it in the span of a week or two. If I continue to declutter my Ukrainian apartment once a month, I should have an easier time a year from now.

Slowly working to catch up on the sit ups and push ups I missed out on yesterday. I will be back to normal in a day or two only to have to deal with it again next weekend.

I haven’t written as much today as I hoped I would, yet. I’m at about 2,800 words for the day and that puts me over a thousand words over where I should be at the moment but I want to be above by more. I’ll try to write a little more, maybe a few pages more, tonight before I hit the hay. Again, I’ll have to deal with this next weekend because I’ll be in Kiev seeing Rose off.

I did my weekly shave again today. I’ve decided that my mustache is at a point where, while it’s still sad, I can start shaving normally again. It’s clear that I have a mustache and no one has really said anything about it to me. Here’s how it looks at the moment:

Alright, now it’s off to writings.