No, this isn't my house, but may I wish that it was? Today was spent organizing. I'm trying to make Sundays the main organization day for me - to organize the upcoming week and try to make it more manageable, to organize the mess of an office that we have as a reminder of two unexpected moves around the northeast (finding a receipt for toilet paper, toothbrushes, a quart of oil and a candle from September, 2004 is a direct result of this), to organize the supplies that we own that make a creative yet cluttered life. It is going to take more than one day, but hopefully every little bit will count. I have been loosely following the Flylady protocol and have a schedule that mostly fits our lives and every September I begin the Holiday Grand Plan. On the years that I have followed it, the holidays seem to be more relaxed and enjoyable - and as it's September now, I still feel in control and pumped up to complete the program. So, today my accomplishments in this arena were:- filed 2 months of bills in their notebooks (I use binders instead of drop files for most of my 'filing' needs - easier on my cuticles and I find them easier for retrieval)
- Paid bills that were due this week
- Made a notebook for the Holiday Grand Plan with sections for the various cleaning/list/baking sections and creating a Christmas Card List with updated addresses (organized my address book at the same time).
- Went through 2 months of emails that I had saved on two email accounts and got myself down from almost 1000 emails to about 250 - it's a start
- completed washing/drying/folding five loads of laundry - my dh returned home from his annual 'backpacking with the guys' trip and from past experience, I've learned that laundry is best done immediately upon his return. Ironing can wait until the weather cools or the a/c is fixed :-)
The week ahead appears to be another hectic one, as are most of the fall weeks for our family. Hopefully this stab at organization will turn it from the nightmare it could be into just 'another' busy week.
3 comments:
You were very busy today! I hope you treated yourself to something as a reward.
I've never done the holiday notebook. I should think about it, huh?
OK, I just glanced at Kim's page and she is doing the Holiday Grand Plan too. I'm taking this as a sign I should try it this year myself!
Wow, what an impressive list, Christine! This whole Holiday Grand Plan thing has me intrigued now.
Welcome to the blogging world, btw.
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