WHY am I not more organized?!
I'm opening boxes that haven't been opened since we moved here, um, over a year ago, all because I'm seeking an important piece of paperwork. It's not urgent. I need to find it, but I need it this summer, not this week.
So, because I like plans and because I'm trying to get a grip on the overall chaos that is my life, for the past three nights I've been going through a file box per night. Tonight I thought I'd struck gold. I opened a box whose top layer was all the sort of thing I was looking for, some of it even from the right organization. The box was completely full, so I was hopeful.
Unfortunately, once I got past the first layer, it was a jumble of random bills (most of them old enough to go straight to the shred pile), birthday cards from Annabel's first birthday, and warranties and handbooks from assorted household appliances. Because back when we were packing to move, I just flung all my random piles of paperwork into random boxes.
Would it have killed me to have organized them topically? Apparently.
Even now, I just have a trash bag, a shred box, and a paper bag for recycling. If I find something important I set it aside, but everything else is just getting tossed back in the boxes as-is. I tell myself I'll sort everything once I've found the Important Document and culled what can be tossed out, but will it happen? Not bloody likely.
ETA be careful, Laga! And change those locks!
D doesn't want to involve the landlord but we'll talk about it when I get home. I'm starting to worry for our safety and the pets'.
I need soothing. Tell me a story about something calm and peaceful.
Ever since I moved and got my new number, I keep getting debt collector calls. At least 1 per week. For several different people. All not me. It gets annoying.
Dude! Happened to me too! Three different people! So annoying. Especially because they were robocalls, where it was like "Press one if you are Bob Smith. Press two if Bob Smith can't come to the phone. If Bob Smith doesn't live here, call 452-123-8624" and I never had a pen handy...
t hugs Laga
Definitely call the landlord. I agree.
Hmm, calm and peaceful... Well, I can tell you something kind of cool. Will that do?
Susan, you can add me to the list of people who spaced out as a kid, continues to do it as an adult (although not since I've had kids, oddly, as if even my unconscious is too busy now).
And Sox you can add me to the list of those waiting for the nights to dry out. I mean, I guess it's not a big deal, but I'm getting fed up with the extra load of dirty laundry every day.
kind of cool is nice. I'm trying to remember the walk I used to take with my childhood mutt Butch down to the marsh by the junior college where there was a big flat rock I would sit on while he tromped around in the mud down by the water but I keep getting interrupted by thoughts of KILL! KILL! KILL!
and now I'm worried about my Mom. She worries so much about me I think I shouldn't have told her the boys broke the keyboard. Does gmail have a "recall message" function?
Scrappy, J is ADORABLE! You married a funny man.
WHY am I not more organized?!
You keep getting distracted by the shiny?
t runs away really fast
Does gmail have a "recall message" function?
Alas, no. But moms worry. It's part of the job. Maybe you should just take deep breaths and distract yourself with pictures of pretty men and women?
My kind of cool news is that I found out today that I am going to be the New Faculty Coordinator for my school starting in the 2008-2009 school year! I'm extremely excited as it is both a big step for me professionally and something I'm really going to enjoy.
The only reason it isn't
really
cool news is that I'm not being offered a stipend OR class reduction for this time-consuming job. The school's budget got slashed (thanks, Bush), and the new HoS sees me as an "apprentice" this coming year under the previous NFC (who is now the MS director), K, rather than the main coordinator. K says that she thinks that's ridiculous and that, as far as she's concerned, I'm the NFC and she is just around for extra support. She also says that I will almost definitely be able to get either a class reduction or a stipend next year if I can be a good little solider for a year and become the full NFC in 2009-2010. It's worth it, but I wish they'd offer me at least something--hell, even a $500 stipend would be a recognition of the fact that this is an important, and difficult, job.
But still...my first official leadership position! Shiny!
