The Art Of Being Organised
Is clearly one that was handed out while I was still getting used to my newly-bestowed Art Of Storing Endless Quantities Of Useless Trivia, causing me to miss out.
Don't get me wrong - in work terms I can be as organised as I need to be - I have a reputation for work-related organisation in fact.
But at home.... different story entirely.
I know people who go to bed having set the table for breakfast and put cereal in the bowls ready for the milk to be poured onto, and tea bags in the pot ready for the boiling water. This is not me. In my house, mornings are an obstacle to be dealt with. No matter what time I get up, I always seem to leave the house having scattered round at the last minute. I have no routine - sometimes I have a cup of tea, sometimes I don't. If I do, sometimes it's before I hit the bathroom, sometimes after. One day in about three l'll have breakfast, and about two days in three I'll need to iron that day's clothes. And I keep letting this be the case, even though I know that probably one day in two, I'll have had insufficient sleep, and will be feeling thoroughly crap.
I know that I could iron a week's worth of shirts on a Sunday evening, but my hatred of ironing is such that I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than spend that amount of time at an ironing board in one go. I know I could even iron for each day the night before, but when I get in of an evening, I don't want to do anything related to work except such actual work as I have to do, and I'm trying to minimise that in the interests of a healthier work/life balance.
So my mornings remain chaotic, and my home gets progressively more untidy as the week progresses, until I reach the point where I have no choice but to waste a chunk of every Saturday just restoring order.
This, I have concluded, is not an ideal way to live.
May 28th, 2003 - 10:19
my morning routine is pretty well drilled these days, but then it needs to be to get in a workout before heading to the office
and i could not handle doing my workout in the evenings !
on the other hand my desk it a mess and i’m not as organised at work as i could / should be
May 28th, 2003 - 11:35
do I need to make a comment here, or are you all quite capable of drawing your own conclusions?!
May 28th, 2003 - 13:37
The fact that you restore order on Saturdays seems remarkedly well organised from where I’m sitting!
June 3rd, 2003 - 11:13
Ironing must be amongst one of the most futile and dumb wastes of time -not to mention electricity ever. why do we do it? Why do we need to have uncreased clothes only so we can wear them and get them instantly creased again? So stupid.