Organizing:  This is going a little slower, but now that our house guests have gone, I’ll be able to get down to business.  I’m using ideas from the weekly Clutter Diet program, Home Sanctuary’s Small Things, and My Simpler Life’s Declutter Calendar.  My resolution is to do (at least) one of these things each day.  I’ll also be participating in a Declutter online group starting January 18th.

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My hypertension management goals are to reduce salt, go down to one cup of coffee per day, and ditch the alcohol for a couple of week.  So far, it’s been four days and I”m feeling okay.  I wasn’t a big coffee drinker to start with, so it wasn’t a huge deal to reduce my intake from two cups in the morning to one.  I felt mildly disappointed that I couldn’t have a glass of wine at 5 pm yesterday, but had a(nother) glass of ice water and the feeling passed.  I’m avoiding my regular trail mix snack (for the salt), dropping deli meat and reducing cheese.  We don’t eat a lot of other processed food, and I don’t add any salt at the table, so I think I’m okay there.

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This has been a fun week for contests.  I only enter those that are really easy and don’t require onerous activity on my part.  I won a family 4-pack of tickets to preview the new Jackie Chan movie The Spy Next Door.  It’s tomorrow morning, and we’ve invited some friends to see it with us as our kids are otherwise occupied.  These were courtesy of a new radio station that I’m enjoying, Vinyl 95.3.

Then yesterday, I won a pair of tickets to a preview of High Life, a Canadian comedy set in the 80s that looks really funny.  Except I have a Catholic Women’s League executive meeting that night, so probably Z and Michael will go.  A hard call:  toker-movie vs Catholic service club meeting.  LOL!  Here’s the preview.