« What I Want Part 2 | Main | Sappy Card »

Relationships

Relationships are sometimes about conflict resolution and compromise, agreeing to disagree and finding a balance betwixt the two.

I have a feeling today and this weekend are going to be full of such things.

I believe in preparedness and planning and organization. While you may laugh at this, my stress comes from the disorganized life I lead based out of my own laziness and the planning for such organization which is so often interfered with by real life.

I admire my parents for their skills in these areas and wonder if they were always this way or it came out of years of work.

It always looks easy, but it often is not. For instance, Naladahc bought bookshelves, one of which is erected in our living room. Amen, it looks beautiful, but I had bought a much larger metal industrial bookshelf just prior, and was planning on buying another and painting the two. They sit, one wooden, one metal, in our parlor, mismatched and ugly. Why? Well, because it takes planning and time to prepare by a) sorting and selling unwanted books b) sorting and throwing out or filing accumulated "stuff" (mail, magazines, bills, etc), c) moving other furniture and or giving it to goodwill.

Every piece of the chain relies on some other piece being done. The mail sorter hung by the door. The bookshelf being assembled. The furniture moved. Other (broken) furniture pitched.

And, sometimes it helps to not be stepping over each other or the dog.

And I'm really buzzing on caffeine. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

And now, I'm on a laundry kick. All laundry is being sorted and washed and my closet is going to be cleaned out into 3 piles: goodwill and parents and keep. Everything will fit, so that the guest bedroom will no longer be a mess.

It must be done, for my plans to come to completion.

Amen.

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)