It feels like it, anyway. AARP was sponsoring what it called a “Shred Fest” today, open to all at one of the commercial document destruction plants on Oahu. Luckily for me, it was right at the bottom of my hill. That was scheduled between 8-12 this morning.

In an odd coincidence, the DEA scheduled one of its quarterly National Take Back Initiative Collection days for today between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Navy Exchange, among other places.

I spent yesterday afternoon gathering up all manner of financial info, including bills and account statements from as far back as 1990, which I stuffed into a 13-gallon kitchen trash bag. Then I started foraging for expired prescription and OTC drugs, a much smaller quantity of things which fit into a plastic grocery sack.

I went off about 9:30 this morning and got in line with a whole bunch of cars carrying shreddable material and waited. It didn’t take all that long, fortunately. After that I came home, made lunch, and took my much smaller bag of drugs over to the Exchange and dropped it off with the smiling DEA personnel, then went in to the store and bought my TP and paper plates and vitamins and mouthwash and twin razor blades.

I accomplished things today! Thank you, AARP and DEA!

Of course, the laundry went by the wayside till tomorrow, but that’s okay.