My drug of choice

Some people have coffee. Others have exercise or shopping. And many have chocolate. Wait, I have chocolate too. But I have another drug of choice. Organizational tools.

I know I have issues. But why do things like this get me so excited?

You should see the one I’m planning for our next house when I have a bigger pantry. I get tingly just thinking about it.

My sanity has been in question lately (even more than usual), thanks to my four year old Stinkbug. She wants to change clothes eighteen times a day. I am so tired of laundry, I want to scream. I have been washing clean clothes, while dirty clothes have ended up back in her drawers. I can’t keep it straight. My solution? This.

Once a week on laundry day, we fold clothes and pick her outfits for the week. She gets to choose the outfit combinations, and which day’s box each outfit goes into. She feels pretty important with all those choices. And it cuts down on the drama, because her outfit is predetermined.

Occasionally I have to be sneaky, and switch the day’s outfits. Like when she puts an orange shirt and fuschia pants in the Wednesday box, when I know we’re going out on Wednesday. Fuschia and orange can wait til Thursday. The art of distraction is a beautiful thing.

Now before you go thinking my whole life is this organized, take a gander at my desktop.

Imagine my horror when Jessica of Kerflop came by and saw this. To add insult to injury, I was using Internet Explorer at the time. I felt so dirty. This girl is all things computer. It’s like when my mother who is unbelievably organized and clean comes over and happens to walk into the room. You know, the one where you shove everything when someone comes over, so they’ll think you’re not a slob. I’m the messiest OCD sufferer alive. Don’t ask me how that makes sense.

Just a few weeks ago, Curtis cleaned up our desktop, and organized everything into two neat little rows. And I destroyed it all. In one month I had my business website redesigned, took over a tall shopping blog, started a group blog with my girlfriends, and canned my old blog to switch over to this one. Oh the chaos. I need to go re-read this post.

But before I do, I’m adding to this weekend’s “to-do list”:

• download new version of Firefox because mine keeps shutting down with some type of error
• organize my pathetic desktop so I can simplify
• take a stinking nap

That ought to do it.