Being organized is overrated #2

After reading the first post. Here is another reason I give up on organizing. I wrote my first post and deceided to add pictures while I am looking for a picture. I pushed a button lost the post so I retyped it and then I found it again. So lucky you You will enjoy both readings. Mainly because I like the second one better.

I am sitting here wondering why we as humans feel the need to be organized. You deceide to be organized and in order to really make it work you have to take everything out and decedied (A blog about spelling will be next LOL) where it will fit in the area. So that makes more work. In December when Melissa and I came home from Walt Disney World I deceided that my goal for the next year 2009 would be to get more organized because when I need to find something I could never find it. I would end up in tears of frustration because I thought i knew where the item was but low and behold it is not where I put it. Okay you are all wondering why I am blogging about this let me tell you.

Today we are going to Greenfield Iowa to see the church where Melissa and Dylan will get married. Dylan knows the minister there and he will marry them. So wedding in Greenfield and reception in Winterset. (Back to my story, see even my mind isnt organized). I want to take my camera with me. I am a scrapbooker and of course I need more pictures. Heaven knows I havent scrapped the ones from Walt Disney World yet. But oh well..........

I put my camera bag with all the accessories in my closet. I pull out the bag and everything is in there except camera. I look all over my room and can't find the camera. Oh I found a camera but not the digital one. Also the other one doesnt work very well. I had been thinking of something to blog about today and since I am now frustrated because I can't find the camera I am blogging about organization or lack thereof. I have mentioned that I scrapbook well let me tell you about my scrapbook area. I go to scraps (scrapbooking with a group of friends at another location) every other month. When I go I take all my supplies because getting organized enough to only take the items for the pages I want to scrap would be like work for me. And what if I want to change my mind. I want to enjoy scrapbooking. So needless to say my scrapbooking area here at home is a mess. BUT I know where everything is. LOL I do not have young children here at home anymore so If I so choose I can leave items sitting on my couch or where ever until I can put them away. I will pick up my house through out the week but the major cleaning happens on the weekends or quickly before someone visits which is why I suggest them calling before they show up. Okay I need to wrap this up. You will all get a good laugh at this one. And believe me I just growled about it. I am sitting here at the computer desk. I have some white drawers that have computer things in them and bills and misc office supplies I am looking up and what is sitting on the top of these drawers YOU Got It the CAMERA. See if I didnt try to be organized I would have known it was sitting right in front of me the whole time..........................

Being organized is overrated if you ask me

When we came back for Walt Disney World I deceided to get organzied.......... Big mistake cause to be organized you have to take everything out to deceide where it goes. So here is my dilema. I came home unpacked after the suitcases sat in our living room for a week. I was too tired the first day home and then of course I had to go to work. I will pick up my home during the week but my major projects happen on the weekend. Since I no longer have a young child at home that is easy for me to do. (For instance I went to Wal-mart this week and the items I bought are still on the couch) So anyway I put the items from my suitcase in the laundry of course. Did laundry came home put it away. Well the things that didnt need to be washed like papers, meds, got put away. Camera bag with accessories put away in my closet. Well now I need my camera and guess what I can't find it. No it is not in the camera bag. This is really frustrating because we are making a trip to Greenfield to the church that Melissa and Dylan are getting married in and I wanted to take pics today. You know the scrapbooker in me needs more pics. I could just borrow Melissa's but then I have to transfer pics to my computer and that takes time.

Who has time........... The next problem with being organized is that you get it all done and then one day you need something and you have to undo all your hardwork just to get to the item you needed. I scrapbook so I go to scraps often usually once every other month. When I go I have to take all my supplies because getting organized enough to know exactly what I want on each page would make scrapbooking work for me. I do it cause I enjoy relaxing. So in all my attempts to organize my scrapbooking area. It is worse now than when I first had the brainstorm to organize it. Now if I didnt organize I can walk straight to the item I want and know it is in that pile. Back to the camera. You will laugh at this one. I am sitting here at the computer I have these white plastic drawers that I have put computer stuff in . I looked up to think about what to write and on the top of the drawers sits the forementioned camera. I swear it was laughing at me. Now if I hadn't have made the attempt to be organized I would have known that it was sitting up there

Facebook or Blogging which is easier?????

I got off work early today so I deceided I was going to figure out facebook and blogging. So far my consensus is that blogging may be easier cause you write what happened, or what you are thinking or feeling. But facebook is more interesting because you can reconnect with others from your past, for example. I have reconnected with a few friends from Albquerque New Mexico where my daughter Melissa and I moved from in 2000. It is intereseting to find out that the young women she was active with are either married with children or at school. Now if I can reconnect with my friends more I would be excited. Because even though I have some friends here in Iowa I still miss my NM friends. I miss being active in church and being busy.I do love Iowa even when the weather is 57 degrees one day and then having ice storms the next day. I love living in a small city where if I want I can know my neighbors and all their business. The only downfall I see to living in small town is that in order to make decent wages and get benefits I need to commute 74 miles a day to work. During the winter that "SUCKS" . So by Sunday I am tired of driving so I (yes I know it is just an excuse) just don't want to drive 25 miles to church.
This is one of my favorite scenes as I drive to an from Des Moines everyday. Of course in the morning it is dark. Also during the winter it is dark coming and going. This is during the summer I will have to get an winter picture of the same barn.

Just testing the waters of blogging

Well here I am becoming a blogger. This will be a simple post as I am just starting and I will need to leave shortly to take my future son-in-law to his fiddle lesson.
We are having a spring type day here in the small town of Winterset. Don't worry winter is returning on Thursday.