I thought once we moved in to the house, unpacked some boxes, and started back to normal life, I would be able to spend more time here. Well, obviously to the one or two people who are actually reading the blog, I have not. I know the Reticent Supervisor is also wretchedly busy and I think the Aspiring Pediatrician is up to her eyeballs in various matters pertaining to the world of science. (I would mention what those things are, but as a historian, I am at a big old loss as to understand what those things are.) I have not read many of the blogs I like to follow. (My Beloved Husband also reads some of the ones I do and he will tell me about them and I feel very left out and behind...) I am very much out of the loop on so many things.
Here are the things which have been taking me from the Perfecting Prudence Business (in no particular order):
1. House Organization
2. Yard Work (I think that I should never see a poem as lovely as a tree....but I would like it to not have leaves that fall all the time.)
3. Thanksgiving Preparations (We are hosting our first family holiday, ever! We are also insane.)
4. House Organization
5. House Repairs and Why People (Sellers) Lie
6. The History Project
7. Class Preparation, Correcting Papers, and Why Proper English Grammar Eludes People
8. The Rules on Changing or Not Changing a Parish (particularly if one moves only fifteen miles away, but into a different territorial parish. Should we change parishes? What if the singing is worse there? Or the congregation wants us to participate in some way?)
9. (Last but not least) House Organization
I think House Organization is the thing that is taking up most of my gray matter. I am someone who uses that sort of thing as a great big dodge about the other more important things that camp out in my brain and wake me up in the middle of the night. If the house is organized, then the rest will all fall together, like magic, will it not? I will then be more productive because the clutter in front of me (of my own making) will no longer distract me, and I will be practically perfect (in every way). And we will all live happily ever after.
I better get more coffee and ponder these matters more.
Here are the things which have been taking me from the Perfecting Prudence Business (in no particular order):
1. House Organization
2. Yard Work (I think that I should never see a poem as lovely as a tree....but I would like it to not have leaves that fall all the time.)
3. Thanksgiving Preparations (We are hosting our first family holiday, ever! We are also insane.)
4. House Organization
5. House Repairs and Why People (Sellers) Lie
6. The History Project
7. Class Preparation, Correcting Papers, and Why Proper English Grammar Eludes People
8. The Rules on Changing or Not Changing a Parish (particularly if one moves only fifteen miles away, but into a different territorial parish. Should we change parishes? What if the singing is worse there? Or the congregation wants us to participate in some way?)
9. (Last but not least) House Organization
I think House Organization is the thing that is taking up most of my gray matter. I am someone who uses that sort of thing as a great big dodge about the other more important things that camp out in my brain and wake me up in the middle of the night. If the house is organized, then the rest will all fall together, like magic, will it not? I will then be more productive because the clutter in front of me (of my own making) will no longer distract me, and I will be practically perfect (in every way). And we will all live happily ever after.
I better get more coffee and ponder these matters more.
2 comments:
I'm a marginal believer in Feng Shui. the short answer, therefore, is YES -- if you organize the house, the rest WILL fall together (or at least be a lot easier to find).
Clutter keeps your creative energies at bay. Clutter owns you, more than you own it; it takes enormous amounts of allocated resource (in a computer-ish sense) to store, sort, remember, and dig through if you want something. Clutter is absolutely orthogonal to the productive glands.
Yearly my husband and I go through our house top-to-bottom and take trips to Goodwill. I can count the number of things I wish I had kept on my fingers, and even so we are still alive.
Dejunk. It will help you, I promise.
We have put more things away and the clutter has ebbed. More junk has left our house and we (me really) are breathing better.
Now for that pesky history project...
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