Been a long time since I posted. I haven't made much progress at all around here. Just been a hot mess like the rest of my life. But I've been trying to get things cleaned up. It just seems like every time I get going and start to make a little progress something happens that takes up all my time and attention and things fall apart again. Sigh.
My Journey from CHAOS to Organized
Welcome!
Are you living in what Marla Scilly, aka The Fly Lady, calls CHAOS? (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome). Well then, join the club there are thousands, perhaps even millions of us!
I have struggled with organization in almost every area of my life for, well, my entire life. By starting this blog I hope to encourage others that they too can get and stay organized!
While it will probably embarrass my children for me to air the dirty laundry here, in full color photos, if it helps just one person along their own journey to getting organized and staying that way, it will have been worth it!
I have struggled with organization in almost every area of my life for, well, my entire life. By starting this blog I hope to encourage others that they too can get and stay organized!
While it will probably embarrass my children for me to air the dirty laundry here, in full color photos, if it helps just one person along their own journey to getting organized and staying that way, it will have been worth it!
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Monday, January 1, 2024
Good Morning. Happy New Year. Been a long time since I've been in this space. Too busy, too overwhelmed physically and mentally. Hopefully this year will be a bit slower and a little less crazy.
While the inside of the house looks as bad or worse than the outside, I've been working out there as much as I can. I figure I can work on the inside when the weather is too bad to be outside.
Because I have so much going on I just commit to 15 minutes at a time. Sometimes it doesn't seem like I'm making any real progress but if I just get a little trash gone at a time at some point it will all be done.
And then days like today, I had momentum going and actually did an hour.
Labels:
15 minutes,
clean up,
declutter,
procrastination
Friday, September 29, 2023
Getting Back in the Swing of Things
My Studio February 12, 2022
And not much better in August of 2023
I've been drowning in everything. Grief from multiple deaths of family and 4 legged friends, too much to do, not enough hours or space to get it done.
I've recently learned that my chronic procrstination and disorganization are symptoms of childhood trauma and C-PTSD. Whew. Who knew! That knowledge alone made me feel better about myself.
And one day I determined that wasn't going to let my crappy childhood hold me hostage anymore. I determined I was going to make my life better. It's slow going, slogging through all the crap. Still too busy with too much to do but I'm making headway.
There are three things I try to work on everyday;
Dishes, Laundry, Trash.
Because those things pile up and become overwhelming. Because if I get behind in those areas there is no way I can work on anything else because those things are taking up all the space, time and energy to get caught up.
So here I am just trying to do a little bit every day or two, to get ahead, to get things out of the way. My studio room is the first room I'm working on hard because I need to get some projects out of the kitchen and into this space. It would be nice if I could use the kitchen just for food.
Still a long way to go but making progress.
Monday, June 10, 2019
6/10/19 some progress
I have been trying to get this mess cleaned up. I really need to be able to get my truck in here! I spent most of Sunday morning working on it and I do make some major progress.
A lot of thing sorted and shifted. Then it got too hot. Perhaps I can get some more done this evening. I have to work this morning.
Sunday, May 19, 2019
5/19/19 progress
front door before |
front door during |
front door after |
new plants |
Rhubarb |
garlic |
driveway before |
driveway after |
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
5/14/19 and that’s how life goes!
Fixed the gate post |
Giotto hiding from thunder |
So I put him in the big chicken house, well constructed, with some solid wood walls and some that are solid on the bottom 3-4 feet with fencing from there up. Just at dark another thunderstorm came through and an extremely close lightening strike followed with very loud thunder. In about 90 seconds Giotto was at my front door. He had managed to unlatch the pop door and squeeze his 102 pound self through a 12x12 inch opening. So he spent the night hiding in my bedroom.
loose fence |
front door jamb |
Hopefully I am not derailed too long....
Sunday, May 12, 2019
5/12/19 happy Mother’s Day
before |
after |
my bedroom before |
and after |
I also sorted out more receipts I found and deleted over 2,000 emails.
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