2010

I am not one to make huge new years resolutions. Mainly because feel like I am just setting myself up to get let down. BUT as we enter into another decade where I see flannel and converse are coming back( Chuck Taylor's are cool, but flannel?) I have decided to try (TRY! not making any promises here) to be more organized. And that goes for Joe too!

I told him that we need a place for everything. I can't count how many times Joe looses a set of keys (note: he has a million and seven work trucks, plus his personal car plus the keys to his shop) or his sunglasses, ipod, phone or jacket (believe it or not jackets get lost a lot around here....and it always happens to be the jacket that has the keys in the pocket!) SO once I muster up enough energy I am making a place for everything.

Also, my closet is atrocious. It's not so bad Right. Now. but it has had it's moments. I actually went through it about a month ago and hauled two big garbage bags of clothes and shoes out of there...that alone has helped the organization of it. With less clothes in my closet there are less things I dig through and throw on the floor in an I Have Nothing To Wear fit! AND (this is huge!) I am going to try my darnedest to put away clothes right away after they are washed and folded (and as I type there are two baskets full of folded clothes sitting in my room. They've been there for at least three days!) When the clothes sit in there too long then they end up unfolded on the floor and it kills me because Joe doesn't have a clean/dirty log in his head so he assumes (rightfully so) that any article of clothing on the floor is dirty. Me, I know which are clean and which are dirty just like I know where his dress shoes are and where he put his phone. I just know, it's a girl thing.

Before

I know, I know. But, this doesn't reflect my house as a whole, just my closet. And in my defense, it hasn't been this bad in a long time. This picture was taken in June.

After

Anywho, when I'm organized I just feel better, my day goes smoother and I am not wasting time looking for things or refolding clothes. It's an all around better way to live.

Although I'm not the most organized person on the block I do realize now that I have a child/my freedom has been drastically minimized that I get thrown off if things don't go as I have them planned in my head. I never thought of myself like this, but it has come out. Back in the day I was pretty spontaneous. It's not like I would up and move across country just because it would be fun and different, but I have decided to spontaneously crash a wedding with a friend OR you know, do crazy things like stay up passed 10pm! But now it's different. Saturday morning Joe will suggest Perkins for breakfast and I about lose it. Perkins?! Do you realize that Silas will go down for his morning nap LATE and then we won't be able to go to the gym because the nursery closes at noon and then we will have to go separately or not at all and then there won't be enough time to return the serving platter at Bed Bath and Beyond and I HAVE to get that done today because that is on toady's agenda and so on and so forth. SO I am going to try to be more flexible and relaxed and understand that over the weekend I may not get everything done that I want and that's okay, and so is Perkins.

There you have it, my 2010 goals. Now, I'm off to put clothes away....