Disorderly Conduct

 Blessings Darlings!

As I've mentioned before - I am where organization goes to die.  For example - today my NEW journal disappeared.   Can't find the damn thing anywhere.  It's amazing how fast this happened.

So when I tell you that the goal I set for this month (which I set late, on the 16th or so and is detailed in my journal), is to deep clean the kitchen and dining room - just think of all the disorder in those rooms that I'm trying to tame.  And I'm doing this in the midst of harvest season, when I'm using the dining room for dehydrating (because the big dehydrator is on that table, and I can hang bundles of herbs on the chandelier.)  

But I AM making progress.  In the past week or so I've gotten a bunch done and the areas aren't intimidating me as much.  Am I getting any help?  No, of course not.  Well, for once the cat hasn't barfed on any newly cleaned area, so maybe the counts.

How's your life going?

Frondly, Fern

Cats and Disorganization and Life, Oh My!

Blesssings Darlings!

My goodness, it's been over a week since I last blogged.  Time sure flies in harvest season.  And I'm havin a really hard time keeping up with all the tomatoes and Swiss Chard.  Which are the only things my garden is giving me tons of right now.  The avalanche of cucumbers is over (I'm still getting occasional ones), and the green beans are in nice steady production.  

We have just trapped the mothers of the 7 kittens we are fostering, and they will be spayed next week.  Which will slow the production of kittens - there is one more breeder out there, but she has very young kittens (like 2 weeks old) and they are hidden.  So while she keeps going into the traps to eat, we keep releasing her.  In another couple of months we'll work on trapping her and her latest kittens.

In my constant attempts to organize my life (ADHD?  Probably) I'm . . . well, I'm trying an approach that failed me before, but I'm SURE that it's going to be different this time.  The difference is that I'm powering it with spite this time.  That's also powering my latest diet - well, that and all the damn Swiss Chard from the garden.  

This new start stuff has been brought on by two different things.  One the purchase of my latest planner.  I buy one every year, of course, and lose track of it.  This year it just came out and the brand has a journal with it, too.  Maybe that will change things!  For those of you who don't know WHICH daily planner I get each year - it's the "Carpe Fucking Diem" one.  

Also - last night was the first cool night in rather a while.  Down in the mid 50's, with low humidity.  AUTUMN IS COMING!!!!!  I'm not a heat and humidity lover.  So I slept really well, and I have lots of cool weather energy today.  And maybe I've got a touch of blessed hypomania, which is always a good thing in my life.

Alas, the 90's will be back tomorrow.  I don't know what the humidity will be like.

That's that for now.

Frondly, Fern

My 2020 Organizer/Calendar

Blessings Darlings!


It's that season again, time to buy next year's calendars and organizers and all that.  I've not yet found one that will do the work of organizing my life for me, and as I've noted before - I'm where organization goes to die.  Nevertheless, I keep trying to become more organized.

Therefore, today was the day I went out looking for a calendar to use to try to organize myself for this coming year.  And I found the perfect one for me.  It might not do the work, it might not be perfect, but it's ... me.

It helps handle the daily swearing for me.

It's the Carpe Fucking Diem 2020 planner.  You can look at your whole month, you can organize your weeks, it has room for monthly goals, each month has a different color, and it shares my bad attitude.

Maybe this will the The One.  Maybe not.  It's a fucking journey of discovery.

Frondly, Fern

An Office!

Blessings, Darlings!

The Chubby Hubby and the Spawn FINALLY moved the furniture where it needed to be in the room that's supposed to be my office (and food storage room), gave me a bookcase out of the ones stashed in the garage, and moved two other bookcases in the garage into the library.

I HAVE A USABLE OFFICE AGAIN!

I'm amazingly happy.  I've already sorted thru' the mail that had accumulated since before we moved and has been sitting in boxes waiting for me to have space to organize it in.  Found one reimbursement check, two cash back things from Staples, and a gift card from Walmart.  Walmart? Whatever.  I even wrote a little something something for Star Foster over at www.patheos.com answering the question "What Makes Someone Wiccan?"

Tomorrow I'll make a calendar of what bills are due what day of the month, so I can automate payments.  I HOPE this means I'll be able to blog more regularly - I have a door I can close to block out interruptions.

OTOH, this is farther from the coffeepot/microwave than I was when trying to work from the diningroom table.  But we'll actually be able to EAT in the diningroom!  Woot!

Frondly, Fern