Day 16 -2012

Today I am all about reorganizing. Reorganizing what? Life. Which begins with every room in my house! I am I a decluttering mission. The more I reorganize and throw away. The more I want to reorganize and throw away. Each room is looking more and more pretty and less filled with things. I am getting rid of clothes and well crap. Lots and lots of crap. When the spaces I live in are clean and not cluttered I feel calm, at peace. I need this feeling. Plus it is easier to paint when things are not in the way.  I was reading  my better homes and garden magazine on my kindle and realized that, after taking their quiz, I am a school teacher organizer.  I like things to be orderly but like to get to things quickly and efficiently, so baskets work well for me.  I can feel calm and tuck things away. I just have to remember to go through ALL of those baskets monthly and through things out.  I am almost to a point where I can start doing that (YAY ME)  See my issue is I live in a 1924 house and back then.. people did not have as much stuff as we do now. So I have  a SMALLLLLLLLLL closest in both bed rooms, a built in linen closet and a pantry and that is IT!  Well besides the attic which is never good for storing things you need on a regular basis.  Plus then the attic gets filled and puts strain on the plaster ceilings...... sooo I have to think outside the box and my BHG magazine works well for storage and organization  ideas  well that and pinterest .  So as i see ideas, I am able to implement.  With each implementation I feel accomplished an less stressed.  Which makes me super happy! And well, we all love a Happy Jamie :)

I am also applying this to people.  If you offer nothing but gloom and doom,  you do not participate in the relationship, you take and do not give 75% or more of the time.. you are getting thrown out with the clutter.  Life is too short to deal with people who are constantly their own worst enemy.  If you ask for my help I will of course help!  But if you do not ask for help and just complain about everything non stop or are a person who doesn't' think ahead ever and is always the person in need, then you are out of here.   I want people of value in my life.  I want people like L and A who are constantly helping out others unselfishly.  Who I know if I need them, will be there and I am happy to say I will be there in return.  I am a darn good friend, so I expect my friends to be darn good too.  Why else would I associate myself with you.  I laugh when i look at the people who constantly want to know why their life is sooo effed up.  Well look at the company you keep.  If you hang out with losers, you become one. I almost married one.  Thankful I dodged that bullet.  But it took him for me to realize that I can cut people out and that it is better for ME in the long run.  Yes someone may not like you, but I am not here to be liked. I am here to make a difference in this life and in the lives of my friends. I want to be a positive influence and want to make sure the mark I leave is one that my family and friends would be proud of.  I struggle as with anyone but at least I attempt it, which is more than most do.


I saw this and thought it was cute and very true.. it may not be easy to stay happy but it is just as easy to try to be happy as it is to try to be grouchy all the time: