Unorganized..

adj: Lacking order, unity, or a system; disorganized

In case you didn't know, that's my middle name.

I wish I could be one of those people who have a place for everything, AND remember where that place is!

9 times out of 10, when I'm looking for something, I have no idea where to start. I've tried and tried to give things a home. Bills here, other mail there. Filing cabinets with files for the things we want to keep.

Here are a few examples of things I've encountered this week...

1) Getting ready to send in our Monthly Attendance Report for homeschooling. Get it all filled out, and start looking for my copies of the previous months so that I can fill out the correct total number of days YTD. Hmmm, where did I put them? I just had them in my hand the other day. Look through the 2 piles of papers on the counters, nope not there. Upstairs to my homeschool files, nope not there either. Hmmmm, where next? On the computer desk, nope. On top of the chest of drawers, nope. Nightstand? nope. I finally decide to go through the last two bags of trash, YUCKO, and unfortunately nope not there either. I guess they disappeared. Waiting on copies from the B.O.E. now. UGH.

2) Getting ready to sign M3 up for speech therapy. Get all the paper work together. Need his birth certificate. Where's the file at? I just had it out the other day. Hmmmmm..... Check the place that I promised myself I'd keep it, nope. Ah, there it is, on the computer desk. Get out his birth certificate to make a copy, and wait a minute....what's that? There are only 5 birth certificates here. Hmmmm, hubby-yep, me-yep, M1-yep, M2-yep, M3-yep, M4-nope. How in the world have I lost this in less than 8 months time??? We got it when he was 6wks old, sent a copy to the insurance company, and from there it has disappeared. UGH.

Don't even get me started on the disorganization of my laundry system. I'm good at keeping the clothes clean, but anything past that, HA! Everyone has their own clothes basket, and when their clothes come out of the dryer, they go into their basket most of the time. Sometimes the clothes end up in a big pile in my bedroom floor until I get them seperated. The older Ms, occassionally, get sick of digging through their basket so they'll fold and put their stuff away. The rest of us, well, we get sick of it too, but we don't do anything about it.

Part of this is because I'm unorganized, the other part is because I despise laundry. What's the point of folding and putting away when it just gets pulled back out and dirtied up again within the next week? Seems like a HUGE waste of time to me.

I mean, I have much more important things to do with my time....

like looking for all the things that I can't find!