You know, when you start a project and get completely distracted by another project...and loose track of your original intention? Or maybe you don't. But I do. Quite often. This week, no different. I was like a dog hot on the trail of a burglar when a cat crosses it's path and it tears off after the cat instead. This week was an example of that.
Aaaah...this week I gotta Organize Schmorganize!
THE PROJECT LIST:
Clean out/organize dresser drawers
Clean out/organize bathroom drawers and cupboards
Clean out/organize car glove compartment
Simple, right? Hmmmm...
Wednesday Objective:
Clean out Bathroom Drawers
Clean out Dresser Drawers
Wednesday, Actually:
Clean out/organize Freezer
Clean out/organize Closet
My first intention, the bathroom drawers. My first distraction....The Freezer. The everything-stuffed-to-the-back-of-the-freezer Freezer. I open it to retrieve some ice for a cup of water.
I am DISTRACTIONIZED! I pull. I dump. I take apart. I scrub. I clean. I re-schmorganize.
Freezer meat, freezer vegies, freezer fruit, a big freezer block of ice...and one hidden freezer frozen chocolate bar. All freezered up. Toss! I keep one miniature pizza, 2 bags of frozen vegies, coffee beans, ahi tuna, a salmon, a bag of gnocchi, 9 frozen pirogi, 8 cold packs, 3 packs of butter, the ice in the box, and a bottle of vodka.
Oh, and a hockey puck!
Don't ask.
I don't have an answer
Justification: More storage...less freezer burn.
But I still can't cross anything off the list.
I ignore, still, the bathroom drawers. I decide to tackle the dresser drawers. Then again, before I reach the dresser drawers, I'm halted by a glance over to my closet.
I am DISTRACTIONIZED! I pull. I pack. I toss. I clean. I find "missing clothes." I find the "Professional" looking clothes. Part of my search for work. Yeah! I need to start on that. So I mirror model. Alotta mirror-modeling. These don't fit. These still fit. This is a wreck. That goes with this. This goes with that. I realize that I have been wearing the same clothes to the same office in the same basement of a building where nobody would think twice of walking into. So there was no dressing for impressing. I'm having fun. And I'm pleasantly surprised that I have at least 5 days of working-girl clothes. I'm looking forward to the future. I then put the shirts on the upper...pants on the lower...dresses to the right...scarves to the left. Voila! The closet is done.
Justification: New wardrobe and one more step toward finding work.
But still can't cross anything off the list.
Time is up, Wednesday.
Thursday Objective:
Clean out bathroom drawers
Clean out dresser drawers
Clean out glove compartment
Thursday, Actually:
Biutiful
Clean out/organize dresser drawers
Thursday morning an Arclight Cinema members e-mail pops up. It occurs to me that I have one more foreign film to see...Biutiful.
I am DISTRACTIONIZED! I pick my seat. I buy my ticket. I watch my movie. Yes, my movie...private screening. I'm the only one in the theater.
Justification: Something I can cross of a list.
But still can't cross anything off the list.
I walk out. A depressing movie. A guilty conscience. Was it worth it?
Okay, dresser drawers.
I come home. I pull. I clean. I mirror-model. I mirror-model again. I mirror-model some more. I toss. I pack. I re-schmorganize. I am done! And, finally, after 40 some years of sticking stuff in dressers, I learned myself a little something. Roll and tuck. Not fold and stack. That's how I pack. That's now how I store. And why not? This way I can fit more into my little tiny dresser drawers than Mariah Carey can fit into one wall of her house-closet. Well, not quite. But almost.
Justification: IT'S ON THE LIST! I did it! I checked one off the list. And it's only Thursday! Ha!
Time up, Thursday.
Friday Objective
Clean out/organize bathroom drawers
Clean out the glove compartment
Friday, Actually
Glove compartment
TBD
It's Friday morning. And, yes, so far I did the glove compartment.
I pulled. I tossed. I re-schmorganized.
I found the vehicle handbook, AAA Guide, 2007 2008 2009 and 2010 proof of insurance, 2008 2009 2010 registration, multiple CDs, a wedding program, a yoga gift certificate, a print out of Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History: Plato, the Allegory of the Cave (?), personal deposit slips, allergy medicine, a pen, a charger, a lipstick, some scissors, some tape and...
Yarn and a Knitting Needle???
Don't ask.
I don't knit and I don't have an answer.
So I'm 2/3rds there. Even though I was distractionized, I am now more on my way to being organized. And with that said, I am very excited. I did more schmorganizing than I set out to do. I crossed another thing off another list. And I learned that not-very-too-old dogs can learn new tricks!
Is this what really gets a middle-aged girl excited? Apparently so! For this girl it does! For this week, anyway!
Ciao for now!
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