Dearest Darling Bloggie,
I know I swore on the DSL Gods that I would not forsake you and keep up with blogging, but this time, I actually have a real honest to God excuse! (not the kind I make up in a pinch so I don't look TOO irresponsible...)
I set a goal to do some serious organizing with our finances this past weekend. (Our weekends are usually Tuesday and Wed) I happened to be off Sunday and Monday too! Let me tell you the HIGHS and lows of the goals I set.
I planned to organize my bills and get my checkbook in order like NORMAL people do, instead of flying by the seat of my pants.
As I was gathering my paperwork together, I remembered that I needed to go though all this paperwork in my filing cabinet and organize it into a file box, and just throw away things I did not need. I needed to be able to go straight to the box and find the car title, or the insurance information.
So, I started there. I shredded an entire lawn bag full of paper work. (Well Ellen Sue did. I organized every scrap of paper I had. Emptied the filing cabinet, and had the kids put it in the van so I could give it to a lady at work.
I did succeed in putting bills and coupons together... just not writing them down.
As I was taking a break and knitting... I was thinking about how good it felt to do that. To really, truly organize! So... that led to the following:
1. Organizing my desk, and pulling out the cabinet and cleaning behind it, and knocking off my modem and tearing it up, thus causing me to be without internet for 1 1/2 days, in which time I decided it would suck if I had to blog from my iPhone..
2. That led to me saying.. ohhh all that craft stuff.. I went though container after container of craft things that I had bought over the years. I had duplicates and triplicates of so many things because of disorganization. I separated everything, and threw away things I was holding on to that I would "do" one day even though I would never get around to it.. I fixed 2 boxes FULL of crafts that I have no intention of ever doing anything with, and listed them on Craigslist. One has already sold! *hayyyyyyyyyyyy!*
3. THAT led to me moving an antique chifferobe into my living room to store all my yarn, needles, crafting supplies that I plan to keep.
4. THEN I realized that I needed something new to eat on my Weight Watchers. So I decided to make AND give away some Pumpkin Butter.
Notice not one time do I mention organizing my bills. I am half way miffed at myself for not getting it done, but I am STOKED over the fact that I organized so much stuff and now have it in one spot! That is a miracle in itself!
Now, I have to go Bloggie, because I have to get ready for work, and I have been procrastinating doing that by sitting here and playing on the computer for hours. *eye roll*
Until later...
MB
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