Organized forever? Well, now wouldn’t that be great! Some women long for fame, fortune and beauty. Not me. No, I want the clothes in my closet to stay organized by color. I yearn for the junk drawer in the kitchen to be neatly categorized. Will the day ever come when my garage looks like the ones on HGTV? Will Pottery Barn ever contact me to photograph my house for their catalog?
Organization is a perpetual quest for me. While others might see me as quite organized, I’m always trying to improve. With a husband, teenage twins, a home and two part-time jobs, life seems to always be one step ahead of me. Not to mention, I think I’m having a mid-life crisis, complete with hot flashes.
My messy family is no help at all. I’ve come to realize I’m the type of person who just doesn’t function well in chaos. I can’t cook if the kitchen is a mess. I can’t go to sleep in a bed that’s not been made all day. I’m a writer, but I can’t sit down to write when there’s laundry to be done, bills to be paid and tubs to be scrubbed.
My husband is just the opposite. His AD/HD personality goes for a more spontaneous, off-the-cuff type of life. Let me give you an example. We recently went to visit his family in California. There we were, standing in an extremely long line at the Avis counter at LAX, when he said he thought our car was Avis. Thought, not knew for sure. He said he was absolutely positive it started with an A. It did. The car was Alamo, not Avis. That was just about midnight. No confirmation number, no printout, no nothing. Just an “A.”
Our teenage twins apparently take after their father. They don’t seem to mind the floor being littered with clean clothes, dirty clothes, half-eaten muffins and CD’s. How they got through high school this way is beyond me, yet they graduated with honors. In a few weeks, they’ll be freshmen at college, six hours away from Mom. I guess they’ll make it.
So, the purpose of this blog is to keep track of my organizing progress and hopefully get some ideas from others. Are you organized? Do you have some tip that makes the routines of life easier, simpler, maybe almost non-existent? Please share.
As for me, I’m still trying. And I’ll let you watch my efforts as I continue to strive for living likes the pages of Real Simple magazine. Now, if I could just find where my daughter dropped the last issue . . .
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