Wherein my apartment complex causes an anxiety attack...that's lasted 2 days so far

[Kogarashi]

Yay for wolfie!

I've also gone through the kitchen gidgetry and am asking myself what I REALLY need and what I don't, to start paring it down some. This is gonna be hard.

Alton Brown's got a good suggestion for helping with this. Stick everything in a box, bin, out-of-the-way drawer, whatever, for the next six months. Whenever you need one of the items for whatever you're cooking, you take it out, use it, clean it, and put it in its proper place in the kitchen. At the end of six months, you look in your box and see what's left, and it's probably safe to say you can do without those items. If there's anything you're reeeeeeeeeally attached to, even if you hardly ever use it, go ahead and rescue it. Alton himself deliberately makes pasta twice a year just to justify his pasta maker, and I do the same for deviled eggs just to keep Hubby from getting rid of our deviled egg tray.

[teh_blumchenkinder]

XD I have a bunt/angelfood cake pan that I certainly use more than twice a year.
... in the span of about a month. O_O
Last year I made THREE butter rum cakes.
(so much butter. So many eggs.)
It took like 12 hours to make all of them. (It has to be baked at a low temp for a few hours, and I do my mixing, cutting, and incorporation by hand.)
(what? it was a lot to me. )
I second Alton's idea for sorting out gidetry; I'm glad you're doing better-- and Wolfie, thanks for being there for her!

[RootedPhoenix]

*hugs the heck out of lupo*

I'm sorry. I wish they weren't like that. I wish you didn't feel so sad and scared.

*offers pumpkin pie and all the herb tea you can stand*

[blas]

Don't feel alone, lupo.

I had a mild panic attack when I was only given an hour and a half's notice of my apartment being inspected (and I stupidly agreed to that). All my neighbors got a day or two notice, but they decided to be assholes and use my day sleeping as an excuse to not tell me.

I was in such a panic over having to spiff and clean my overly dusted, rarely ever vaccuumed, did I mentioned covered in dust apartment?

And I got reamed for it.