It’s both cloudy and sunny, depending on where you look, and my iced coffee has definitely jumpstarted my brain. I don’t know if there’s any basis to this, but I feel liked iced coffee makes me peppier.
Perhaps it’s how fast you can drink it?
Before we move on to thoughts unknown, thank you so much, Gail, for the coffee! I mean of course you are right, a suitcase full of coffee would be amazing. As long as the suitcase was well-lined. And it had a good straw. Or it was whole bean. Yes, that seems more practical! Thank you, I really appreciate it.
And speaking of appreciating, thank you so much, Deb, for the coffee! As we muddle through all that needs muddling, and try to find the bright spots, I want you to know you are among them. Thank you.
And on to Thursday, she typed with confidence as though she knows where she’s going.
I finally finished the pantry reorganization, and I had an epiphany doing it, noting that I wasn’t utilizing all the space. Utilizing all the space is how it becomes a mess in the first place.
I can open the doors and see where everything is. I can pull out the various storage pieces. I have overstock in the hall closet we redid a few months back.
And it feels pretty amazing. I do credit watching all of this Space Maker Method for making me want to do it, even though I haven’t gotten to the end of a series yet; Lulu’s is still going up on Sundays, and now I’m watching Julia in New York because she seems cool and the space is small and it’s urban living.
But I don’t think it’s about the “finished product.” There is no finished product with organizing, I have finally, finally learned. Because they are all living systems, unless you’re a natural history museum and then just keep on not doing what you’re not doing. I don’t think dust gathers in a glass case.
Even now I realize there are many areas, like that aforementioned pantry, I thought I’d gone through thoroughly that could use a rework. Maybe when they’re all reworked I’ll be “done,” but probably only if I hold very, very very very still.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but there is something about that approach that makes sense. Choose an area and just go, you can go through it again. I’m on the go through it again, I guess.
I will never be one of those people with the cabinets that open to gleaming rigid rows of things that never vary in their perfection. If that is how you’re wired, that’s great, but I am not.
But this seems pretty maintainable. This seems like something that could work. I can see exactly what I have and what I need, and with the world so loudly chaotic, it feels like something.
Anyway, that’s it for me today, I hope you have an excellent Thursday.
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