Thirteen - No Wait, Fourteen

Fourteen - that's how many organizational books I found on my shelf recently !

Sounds like I'm a really organized person doesn't it ?
Not really BUT after all, I did find all fourteen books !
Actually I only have 13 but I have one really fantastic one that is duplicated.
Guess God really thought I needed that one. Have I read either of them , well -sort of. How about the other 13? Have I applied any of the suggestions, --- not sure about that. BUT I love thinking I am organized. Everybody thinks I am.(boy, do I have them fooled) Linda Pattison always said everyone thought she was so organized but she had to be to find anything because she was so unorganized. That's sort of the way I feel most of the time.
So according to the dictionary the definition of organize is "to arrange in an orderly way - to make into a whole with unified and coherent relationships." That means, I guess, to get it all together in some sort of "make sense" order huh !
I usually have this 'get organized' kick in January. I just can't stand the house and go after
it with gusto. But for some reason that feeling has hung on into the month of May this year
and I still do not feel under control.
It's getting harder the older I get because when a person reaches a certain
age these "little gremlins" move into your house and they like to reach out and
grab things when you lay them down and run off with them. They do it right under your nose
and you never see them at all ! They usually put them back somewhere close when
you are not looking just to tease you or sometimes they just hide them away never
to be seen again.
Oh yes, I went down to our Weight Watchers storeroom the other day and labeled all
of the tubs we keep our product in so we know when we are running low and need to reorder
and labeled the drawers on our rolling cart so we can find the paperwork we need
in a hurry but that was only because it helps us be more efficient during the meetings
so that doesn't really count.
If I turn around and look at the left side of my desk, I have a paper holder thingy that is
running over with things I put there to "file later." The basket behind my chair runneth
over with magazines to be read. (at least they are in a basket!) I have dropped four
or five of the magazines I used to get for lack of time to read them. My scrapbooking tote sits waiting to be unloaded in my scrap room from last weekends crop. I haven't even had time to look at the pages I got done let alone compile the book. (Has to be done by next week so it will happen) There are just to many other things that are top priority this week.
Whoever said after you retire you will be bored with nothing to do !! My goal when I retired was to fold my clean clothes as soon as they come out of the dryer. Has that happened. Not really - maybe sometimes but that is something I can do later in the day when we are watching TV so they usually wait until then.
I do love to be organized - it feels so good to know where things are and be able to go
get them immediately. But sometimes I have to just go and replace something because
it has just disappeared.
Yes, my sox are sorted in my drawer by color but that is just because quite often I'm in a hurry in the morning to get somewhere and everyone knows your sox must match your shirt !
My biggest problem -- not putting things away immediately, thinking I will come back to do
it and it often just doesn't happen so I'm still working on that and in the meantime the "little gremlins' are having a blast in my house hiding things from me that I didn't put back right away.
Oh well, one of these days the garage project will HAVE to get started because Judi and I have our annual garage sale planned for July. That not only gets the garage straightened out but makes me go thru everything and get rid of a lot of stuff that is no longer necessary to clutter up the house.
After that I will again feel somewhat organized at least for a little while !