11/22/08

I’m feeling a bit like things are spinning out of control lately.  I’m so disorganized both inside and out.  Actually, I think the disorganization around me is causing the disorganization within me.  Our house is a wreck.  I feel like while I was in school for the last two years, I let things fall apart, and now that I’m finished, I’m having a hard time getting everything back the way it should be.  In the evenings and on the weekends I’m so tired and busy with wedding plans that when I do have a free moment, I just want to lay around and do nothing.  This is not helping!  The disorganization makes me even more tired and overwhelmed.

Last night I finally broke down and hired someone to do yardwork.  Our roof desperately needs to be cleaned off, and our yard is full of leaves and pinestraw that need to be raked up and bagged.  It’s not really that much, but it would take us most of the day and we just don’t have the time or motivation.  I normally do not believe in paying someone else to do something I could do myself, but this time it seems like it will be worth it.  I don’t even know what it’s going to cost, and frankly, I just don’t care that much.  I just want to drive up after work and see a clean yard.  The crew did come highly recommended by a good friend, and the man said he would give me a good price.  Let’s hope that’s true. =)

I’m also still planning on getting someone in here to do some deep cleaning before the wedding.  I have three days off next week for Thanksgiving (yay for working in a school!), so I’m planning on using that time to tackle all the clutter that’s making me crazy.  I have so much stuff that is not where it belongs and we also have a lot of recycling and donations that we need to get out of the house.  I also have a few dining room chairs that I bought at Goodwill that I need to re-cover.  I bought some beautiful fabric and did one of the chairs and it looks fantastic.  I need to get the other ones finished so that I can get rid of the old chairs that are all broken in one way or another.  The table was my great-grandmother’s (on my father’s side).  My grandmother gave me the table and the chairs, but the chairs are old (and not original)–they are falling apart.  It will be really great to have people over to dinner and not have to warn them about sitting carefully! =)

This weekend I’m going to run a bunch of errands and get all the laundry and dry cleaning done.  I have clothes that I ordered for Ryan online that he doesn’t like that I need to get back to the store.  I also have a couple of duplicates of wedding gifts that I need to exchange.  If I can get these errands finished I can check them off the running list in my brain and start to get mind-clutter cleaned up as well.

I’m really looking forward to this week, and that is helping my attitude tremendously.  Monday is a regular work day…I actually think I’m going to be slammed, but it’s just one day and being busy will help it go by quickly.  Tuesday we are having a special curriculum day and our entire school will be off site at a theme event all day.  It should be really fun and I am really looking forward to it.  Wednesday I’m off and I’m hoping to go to my Grandma’s cook all day.  The last few years, we have gotten together before Christmas to make jelly to give as gifts.  This year I am going to try to make enough pomegranate jelly to give to everyone on my staff.  It may be an all day affair, but it’s a really nice time to spend with my Grandma.  She is 89 years old and I know that the time I have left with her is precious.  I’m also going to finally bring over my digital recorder so that I can interview her for the photo album/scrapbook I am trying to put together with all of her old pictures.  I hope it will be fun day.  Thursday we’ll go to my other Grandmother’s for lunch, and then hopefully over to a friend’s house for dinner.  I haven’t heard from Dale and Lys yet, but we usually go their house on Thanksgiving night (Lys makes the BEST turkey in the world!).  The rest of the week will be mine to do whatever I want with.  I’m sure we’ll have stuff to work on for the wedding, but hopefully it will be manageable.  We are less than a month away now and it is getting crazy!!