A Happy Hill

Some days I get in this mood where I need everything organized... It usually doesn't take to long because most of my stuff is already very organized, but there are those places that get neglected, like the front coat closet, the storage closet, and even the cupboards for my food or containers. I have always been a semi neat person, but My father has come out in me tremendously since college. Not that my mom isn't clean, she is, but my clean is like my dads. We clean and we organize and everything has to have a place. If it doesn't have a place then it usually gets thrown away.

The one thing I have learned from my dad, though, is to always look in a box before you through it away, or papers. Yes, my dad has thrown away my paper that was due the next day because I left it on the counter for Me to remember the next day, and he saw it as junk. He also through away the box of our homemade christmas ornaments that we had been accumulating for years, because it was light so he thought it was trash. Thus, look in boxes and at things before just pitching them.

So can you guess what I did today? Right when I woke up pretty much. I attacked the front closet and the storage closet! Man did it feel good. I went through like 6 totes, threw away a ton from all of those and condensed things to where I had two open totes! So I put the sleeping bags in a tote so they weren't free fallin all over the storage closet. Then I attacked the front closet. put all the stuff that didn't need to be in there in the other free tote and organized the mitten and hats and scarves in a little basket I found and got all ready for winter. Such a great feeling!

I am one of those weird people that by just being able to do that, I was instantly in a better mood. My husband even noticed. He said to me at lunch today that he could tell I organized things, I was in a good mood! He told me that each time I organize something, I am always in a good mood afterward. It surprised me, but when I thought about it, it made a lot of sense. I put some organization into my life, when I can't always put it there.

I realized, too, that I get very cranky when I feel like life is out of control. (I have a control issue, if I haven't said that yet. I am working on it though.) So when I CAN control something, like the organization of my house, I feel a lot better.

So today was a happy hill in my life. It was a day where I didn't feel like I was spinning out of control or lost, but a day that I claimed to be my day; a day that I organized and enjoyed. I day that I really desperately needed right now.