this is the thing...........
about the cleaning the office plan. i have a problem. I think i have to go buy organizing things before i can organize anything. and usually it peters out at the shopping part. and nothing gets done. but i have tons of "organizers" boxes, bins, magazine holders etc. my friends mock at the amount of stuff i have, trying to get organized that they call me the
"the most organized ,un-organized person they know! " which is pretty true. and i have offers from a friend to come help me again. but then i can't find anything afterward, and i need to know where this crap is. i feel major distress at being lost in my own organized space that i'd rather have it crazy unorganized but I know where it is ,than totally pristene and i am lost. plus on the shopping issue, have i ever mentioned i am a recovering shop-oholic. major shopping compulsions! and really it is the budget or more accurately, long time lack of funds that has curbed it. but i feel the major compulsion to shop everyday that we are not dead broke! even when we only have $7.00 bucks to our name , i am thinking about what i can return so i can go spend some money. well not really that so much, but as soon as i have more than $20. i start feeling it. and there are always needs to attend to. this many kids, they need something all the time. if it isn't shoes it is jeans. or hair stuff. and now with this house, i finally have a desire to buy housewares. well i have always wanted to but now, i feel compelled to.
how did i get to this point in the conversation? oh yeah ! the urge to shop in order to organize!
ikea anyone? that office supply section beckons! the one downstairs with all the cute snap together boxes! does anyone have those? would you suggest them to a friend? and then i have trouble committing to a theme. i would totally do fuchsia and green or black but I'm not sure that would fly with my cubicle mate, i mean my craft room stealing hubby. just kidding. and he was rather P.O'd with me about the comments about his asking me to get on the "office situation." and i felt free to liken it to his complaints about me cussing on my blog. my blog=my language. he shared his opinion, i edited. LAME! he asked me to clean , i complained and blogged about it. it goes full circle. i find it comparable. what do you think? do i sound totally ignorant in my use of my gratuitous excessive expletives ? i feel like i am making a point on occasion that calls for a f-word here or there. like when i am yelling at a perv, or an inconsiderate movie talker. how do you get your point across without an expletive? also he feels like we are bad examples to our kids ( we meaning me) and i need to cut out the cussing. and yelling, and what not.
on the other hand i am really feeling the wonder of him working from home. all the savings on gas and lunches for him, goes right into my spending budget. and on days like today when i have to drive like a bat outta hell to make it home in time to get Hope off the bus? i won't have that. AND i will have the option of driving my car or his (which gets better gas mileage being a compact car rather than the bus-my 15 passenger van. ) thus furthering the gas savings, right into my shopping funds.
BONUS!
and i truly feel it is beneficial that the office is really far on the side of the house from where i nap. so he won't know i am slacking because he won't see. not that i have napped recently.(sigh)
and it has been the source of much discussion amongst the wheeler clan. since many in his family have tried and failed to have a home office rather than an away-from-home-office. apparently there was a discussion on this the other night at the party i missed. ONE brother-in-law told a story going something like this... he was working, wife came in with poopy kid and said here change the baby i have to.... and the husband said very nicely honey i am working, what would you do if i was at work? and wife said you aren't at work you are here, so change the baby, walking out. the home office quickly converted to a game room and other accommodation's were made for hubby's office. another brother in law heard this and quickly gave the version as he imagined as it would go down at our house.... Lance working in office.... me yelling Lance come here! here change this baby FAG! and that would be it! Lance would change the baby hahaha many laughs were apparently heard, and i laughed too because he knows me so well ! but not well enough to think i would say ,"hey Lance! change the f-ing baby". and when excuses come i would walk away flipping off the f-ing husband! but more likely when hubby came to tell me to get off the computer, i need to change the laundry he started and change the baby and cook lunch for the kids, then i would flip him off and go to lunch at barro's! because that is how I roll! and the next time i say i want another baby he'd tell me" no way, because you ( meaning me) can't handle it or anything. and look at this place! another baby is the last thing we need." and i would have to give up that fight and try harder at handling "it". ah i hate it when he is right! he sucks for saying it!
again rules will be established. but first i must clean. and before i clean i must shop.
see the cycle? vicious!
So was it worth the novel? delightful wasn't it? and more truth than fiction. i love my life! well not really so much as i think it doesn't suck as bad as it has in the past. and i survived that , so this should be fine. and always motivating me is the money. gas money saved. lunch money saved, more for me to spend. yup i admit it! excited about that!
share your thoughts.........?
8 comments:
holy long post...but i did read the whole thing. i am with you with the organizing and i did at one point attempt to buy all of the fabulousness but they ended up getting thrown away or broken so now i just have piles, not so great but at least i know what pile everything is in.
I don't say the f-word because I don't like it, but that doesn't mean I don't think it! But I really try to not swear in front of my kids. I said something the other day and it broke T's heart, which broke my heart, soooo I am really trying. As far as the organization, I'm still trying to find the desire to get our den closet organized and everything filed away, and we've been here for two years now. And I really need a new desk/bookshelf/drawer/organizer thingy to organize my spare room with the sewing machine, gift wrap, crafties etc. And the treadmill is also in there and I want a daybed in there, too. So let me know if you find anything exciting in the way of organizers. And like Linz said, holy long post!!
Try this for organizing (it's my favorite thing to do) Take a couple of empty boxes and sort your stuff first. "Throw Away" "Organize" and "Maybe". As soon as your done with the Throw away (or give away) put it directly into the back of your car so you can drop it off somewhere-anywhere when you are already donig something else. Set a time for about 15 minutes and take your organize and put it into sections using grocery bags (stuff needing to be filed, craft stuff, computer stuff -whatever) and only work for 15 minutes. Then WALK AWAY and blog or something. Do this again in about an hour or so. Eventually you'll have divided up the organized box into several different sections without feeling too overwhelmed. Then try the next day, or the next. And do 15 minute incruments of the maybe pile. If it is something that you love or brings happiness to you--keep it. Same goes for you husband. If he needs it to further his business keep it. If not--chuck it (into a new trash box and follow the above instructions). Then once you have divided it up. then you can see what size of containers you need. Make a list--measure your spaces in your closet or book shelves and then go find containers ONLY for the stuff you have already divided. You can use cute containers--because that makes you happy. Remember this :: SPACE (Sort, Purge, Assign a Home, Containerize---E-mail (I just make the last one up--think of it as a rewarding system. Since Blog starts with a B I couldn't put it there). It's a lot of info, but if you go letter by letter in 15 minutes increments every once in a while, you won't get overwhelmed and you'll get it done. If all else fails, call in a friend.
I have to say that reading that post is like having a conversation with you. Totally entertaining. I love how I feel when my house is organized and clean. I wish I was better at getting rid of stuff. I think whatever works for you and Lance is just perfect!
And I just read Jill's comment and I say AMEN to that. Great ideas. And Jill would know. She's ultra organized and has very little extra crap!
Those were great ideas from Jill.
I also love to buy all the cute organizing stuff first & then hope I get the burst of energy I need to do it.
Also on the story about I think it was your brother in law. I think that is so funny that he couldn't change the diaper but they would have stopped everything if a friend came to the door or better yet if his wife came in & she lets have sex right now!
ok and Brooke you know me so well! that is on the top of my perks list!
and Jill! you are one smart organized girl. sounds a lot like fly lady. which i attempted for a short while. and yes, i just need to start small , get rewarded for the work i do get done. and get started! and you are way smart about measuring the spaces and buying only the ones i need as opposed to random cute things i find here and there. thanks for the advise! you are a genius!
Amen to Jill! I too read the entire post...but since I was following Jill's advice...I read 10 minutes---went & started dinner---and then came back & read 10 more minutes....so on and so forth!(I hope you are laughing because that's what I am going for). Actually, my rule is 5 minutes for just about everything.
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