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Under the sink.
The bookshelf from hell.
How do people live with this type of disorganization? Every day I look at these areas and think, today is the day that I will sort and clean these areas. And then I find much more amusing things to do and they go uncleaned.
I'm in the 12 steps to recovery about these areas:
Step 1- Admit that I am powerless over these areas and that they've become unmanageable
Step 2 - Come to believe that only a higher power can rescue me from the mess. Possibly Ellie?
Step 3 - Make a decision to turn my will over to higher power. Again, possibly Ellie?
Step 4 - Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of each area. (Found: plastic bags, books I've read, other junk)
Step 5 - Admit to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. I'm doing this step via my blog.
Step 6 - Am now entirely ready to have God (Ellie?) remove all these defects of my bookcase.
Step 7 - Humbly ask God (Ellie?) to remove my messes.
Step 8 - Make a list of all persons the bookcase has harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Um, no one. Only I care.
Step 9 - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Dear Dx, sorry that the bookcase is a mess. It is my fault, but I secretly blame you in my heart.
Step 10 - Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Yeah, admitting I'm wrong? Never going to happen. Maybe I'm not ready to move onto this step. I'll let you know when I get to 11 and 12.
(Step 11 - Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out
Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs)
Thank you, fellow bloggers, for allowing me to reveal my embarrassing bookcase and under the sink area.
6 comments:
Goodwill industries be with you 'til we meet again.
I say, get another bookcase, move the clutter from one to the other and then you'll have double the space to fill with more clutter, that has to be cathartic, at least initially. In the interim, come to Jesus blogs are always a good start.
I will make you feel better by posting my school/phone number/stuff I have to do pile/cabinets soon. I'm sending it in to Real Simple magazine's organizing section, because Ellie won't come to my house.
I was TOTALLY thinking of you when I posted the picture. Yes, I have a sig. smile. Slightly tilt the head to the right, and don't completely close teeth. Check.
That bookcase is so minor you should actually be congratulating yourself for only having one space.
Nor, next time i'm over i'll handle it. In fact, last time i was there i almost organized under your sink b/c of my ocd but i was afraid i wouldn't have been able to stop once i started. then u woulds gotten mad cuz wewouldnt have left the house.
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