Here's a secret for you: I'm not so together, this Tuesday.
I've been back at work for all of a week, now, and already life is in its normal state of jumbled-up busyness and organization. Thank god for Himself--not only did he make me a margarita which surpassed the size of my largely-useless reproductive system, he cleaned the condo yesterday. If it weren't for him, I'd probably be a quivering stressball right now.
It's weird, it's totally psychological, but if my home is disordered, I feel so restless, so ill-at-ease, so
not-together. I feel like I can't do anything until the home is in order.
So I get it in order.
It just doesn't stay that way.
All of my high-minded goals--planning meals for the week, planning my work outfits, setting up a chore chart--all of them fall by the wayside as I find myself struggling just to hold the line. Doing the laundry, getting enough sleep, feeding the cats, the kind of quotidian stuff that needs to happen every day, or almost--that's the stuff that absorbs my energy and attention. The extra projects, and the planning of a more sane life, that's all stuff I barely have time to think about, let alone tackle.
Wah, wah, wah. Woe is me.
In her blog, Organizing Solutions's Marcia Francois Joburg advises
adding only 6 things a day to your to-do list when life gets hectic. I thought that was a great idea, but misunderstood it as adding as many items as you want, but committing to doing only 6 items a day. That actually works for me better than her original idea, because if I didn't add everything, I'd forget!
So, that's how I'm keeping it together this Tuesday. I'm gonna do 6 things, and call it a good day.
Photo ganked from http://seamripper.wordpress.com/This is not my life. But sweet fancy Moses willing, one day it will be!
