MONDAY

HAPPY MONDAY.  How to get organized.  One day at a time.  One item at a time.  I swear the youtube videos make getting organized look so easy and glamorous.  Not around here.  I am what you call a natural born slob.  It never was easy for me to be neat and tidy or organized.  I have had to learn the hard way.  I have had to work at it.  Sometimes it seems to go better than other times.  Chin up.  Dig in and create some order.

About a year ago and a half ago I went looking for photo albums.  None to be found.  Thought I would check on the internet and well covid happened and I got distracted.  Time passed and I still don't have any photo albums.  With digital are more peeps not using snap shots?  In the cloud?  Or downloading the images onto canvas hanging on the walls?    

To get old snap shots (pictures) gathered and orderly, I bought sweater boxes with snap lids. Because the store only had three boxes I will have to go to another store 13 miles away. Hopefully they will have some that match the ones I have.  I can't go to a container store around here, because there isn't one.  Hodge Podge containers.  I'd like for the sweater boxes to all match. That's my hope.

If I find what I am looking for on the internet for photo albums then I'll order some and when I can I will create completed photo albums that will sit on book shelves.  For now it's sweater boxes. 

After I get more projects completed, I'll go back through the envelopes and pitch many a picture. Thin this out.  Send off for books for special occasions and forget the snaps.  More to do.   

Over the week-end I went down memory lane and got stuck.  For three days I have been going through old pictures and trying to make some sense out of this mess I have.  Needing more sweater boxes for the negatives, the pictures in envelopes, loose pics, etc.  

Originally I thought I'd store the pictures in the three drawers of the Victorian desk.  Ran out of room.  Back to boxing them up and stacking them in the closet for now.  There's a drive in me to get this finished, then I'll do more office work, take a break.  Easter baskets will be fixed this week and placed in the mail early.  

The pictures stirred emotions in me.  A roller coaster of emotions.  Sad and happy.  At the end of the third day I was tired and a tad bit overwhelmed by all the emotions.  Seeing loved ones that have passed, friends I no longer visit with, family members growing up and older, house projects in progress then completed, puppies raised, birthdays, Christmases, Easters, graduations, weddings, baby showers, bridal showers, Thanksgivings, etc.  I am only behind about 20 years.  

I think the best place for these pictures right now is to keep them in the envelopes and place inside sweater boxes stacked in the closet.  They were in cardboard boxes and baskets before, so I do have a little order under my belt. 

Inside each envelope are LOTS of individual pictures.  Lots.

Through the years we have taken quite a few pics and they were not digital, but the old fashioned way.  Actual physical pictures.

Not stored in the cloud.

Stored in the closet.

I have never been so disorganized in my life.  Ever.  

This week will be busy which means I probably won't get much paperwork completed.  I'll need to pace myself.  

Need a joke to lighten up my mood.

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Me.

Me who?

What?

Me who.

Me who?

Yes, me whooooo.

That's not funny.

I wasn't trying to be funny.

That's good because you're not.

Well I tried.

May it ever be so humble there's no place like HOME,

🏡d