Women Over Fifty

On the last few days of December, I have a compulsion.  I have a compulsion to put my life in order for the New Year.  I guess it’s kind of a reverse New Year’s resolution.

Today is the last day of 2008.  I’m far behind in putting my life in order, but I tried.  Isn’t that true also of a New Year’s resolution?  Yesterday I sorted through the junk laying around the Great Room.  It’s mostly mail that I didn’t throw away when I first got it.  The bills are paid, the mail read, except for magazines, it’s just stuff.  Some of it needs to be filed away, but most of it was trivia like coupons and casino promises that are out of date.

Today’s target for cleanup is what I want to call my Study, but in truth we call it the Computer Room.  It also doubles as a guest room (trundle bed), a sewing room, an ironing room, and storage for my square dance dresses, which take up a lot of room in the closet.

Whatever gets done today will be a vast improvement I assure you.  This is also a project room where dreams are dreamed, begun, and left to be finished later. 

Does any of this strike at home for you, or am I the only one who lives in the middle of a mess that I created for myself by not dealing with it at the time?  You could say I’d rather be blogging. 

Today, I’ll be cleaning.

Marilynne