I keep finding myself paying the price, financial and otherwise, for being chaotically disorganized.
I've had to pay late fees on bills frequently during the past six months.
I just paid $26 extra dollars to sign my son up for the SAT.
Yesterday it was $32 in library fines.
I lose hours each week just searching for things.
We aren't eating as well as we could be.
The problem is that I need some time to get organized, but there is always something more urgent. The overwhelmingness of this move has taken me by surprise. I've made state-to-state moves with small children that didn't leave me in this kind of chaos. Maybe that was easier because moving was, in itself, a break. I didn't move and continue to work and do my regular activities. And I guess I didn't do all of that and plan a wedding and have to work on rehabbing a house at the same time, either. So, I guess I can see how I got here.
But looking ahead, I don't see a break coming. I don't see a chance to catch up. There is Thanksgiving. There are cookies to be baked the week after (about 30 dozen.) There is Christmas shopping, house guests, and--oh yeah--this is one of the busy times at church/work.
Somehow, I have to figure it out, because I can't continue in the disorganized state that I'm in.
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Right now, I'm looking at how I'm barely keeping up (healthwise) with the basics of job and home. I look at December's calendar, with doctor appointments and church and a trip to O'Hare and a trip to Mankato, and it seems completely impossible. And then if I start adding in things like decorating and gift-shopping and baking, I might as well just crawl into bed with antibiotics right now, and sleep through the next month.
*hugs* The summer you've had and the move you've done would tax even the most OCD, organized, control-freak person.
In other words, don't be too hard on yourself.
I am going to start following you around and every time somebody asks you for something or to do something, I'm going to yell, "NO!" before you even get a chance to answer. That should help, yes? (The answer to that is "NO!")
Adriane, I've threatened before to take her car keys away. Of course, now she can walk everywhere.... ;-)
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