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Well it has been a busy few weeks. I still don't have a computer at home during the day. Syd is keep us pretty busy anyway. I have been somewhat stressed lately by the contents of my home. I am too busy to dust many of the items and our house is crowded with furniture we only use to hold things we never use. I am moving two things out of my dining room. This still leaves two buffets, two china cabinets, a table, 12 chairs, and a silver chest. I decided it was time to use the book that bought on organization in the Charlotte airport (if you will remember I said that it changed my life, but change is still a slow process - especially where possessions are concerned). I am using the following method. Consolidating all possessions by type and deciding what to keep and where to put what I do keep. For example, you spend an hour organizing all of your wrapping paper/supplies only to find that another room also contains wrapping paper/supplies and the former space will not accommodate the additional supplies. According to the book, you get white document boxes (this is so everything looks neat while this is in progress) label them (i.e. tools in one box, pictures in a box, etc) and take them from room to room. Once you have completed this with all the rooms then you assess what you have, get rid of a few of the unnecessary duplicates (such as three hammers of the same size), and find places that fit what is in the box. Just avoid to many Misc. boxes.

Ok, who am I talk to? I guess myself. The main point of this post is that I am consolidating my junk so I can live my life with out it all getting in the way! The other week Adam and I had something to do every single night! We don't have time to dust all the stuff we have sitting out and if we did have the extra time we wouldn't want to spend it on cleaning.

Last week, I participated in a casserole swap. It was a test run actually. Being me, I forgot to find the last person to participate and I ended up having to be two people. This meant that I ended up with double the casseroles which is a plus but my house still has not recovered from that event on top of all the white boxes littering our home. Don't forget to picture things that don't fit hanging out of the boxes, such as stems of artificial flowers that I bought for a "project". It is true that you have to make a mess to clean up a mess or was it that your house gets worse before it gets better? No that's not it. Anyway, it is bad, very bad. I am still thinking that I want to do more casserole swaps to make my life easier during the week. I am even thinking about doing the meals for a month thing. Let me know if anyone has any ideas on this...

Jess