I have drawn a sketch of what I deem to be the perfect plan for an organized office area. It has slots to place bills, in individual compartments. It has a French memo board to slide wedding invitations and school pictures of my nieces and nephews. It includes 2 wooden file cabinets from Pottery Barn, with a custom piece of marble for the top, providing a long writing surface for all those Thank-You notes I am so timely in writing. It has compartments for the cell phones, ipods, and a special plug for the laptop. It even sports slots for the many magazines I seem to leave all over the place. If I could just build it…then…then I would know when school starts again and how soon I need to pay that electric bill and oh yeah, what my nephews look like.
When I mentioned the “super plan” as a way of deflecting Dave’s request to clean up my desk, he looked me square in the eye and said, "what did your locker look like in High School?”
“Messy”, I replied.
“What did your closet look like when you were a kid?”
“Like a tornado hit it, like it looks now”, I smiled.
“What does your desk look like at your studio?”
“’Nuff said”
He then (somewhat lovingly) told me that no matter how I wallpaper it, paint it, fix it up, hang it up, I always have been and always will be…UNORGANIZED, and ACCEPTING it is going to be a lot easier, and cheaper than taking on ANOTHER PROJECT!!!"
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Ceci
4 comments:
I am so glad there are others out there like me. I always have such guilt over the clutter of magazines, newspapers... Plus my car must have a few missing sippy cups, sweatshirts, sunday school craft remnants... all over. Every time I turn the corner there is a tiny matchbox car that comes sailing from one side of the car to the other. It drives my husband nuts. I guess you may have hit on something with the whole "acceptance" thing.
oh so true! Oh oh so true!
I like your plan - even if Dave doesn't think it will work!
Messy desk, creative mind.... oh well, easier to think of it that way anyways! As the old smoking statement went: never quit quitting. I think this applies to messies as well. (I'm guilty as well!) Some sites to check out:
www.flylady.com
www.messies.com
Praying that our mansions in heaven come with maids! :)
K.
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