Time to deal with this:

OK, so I just got lazy about taking out the recycling. That was easy. The rest took a bit of sorting.

On top of the credenza were some books, music from concerts from last season (end of April, folks!), and that long blue and white thing? That’s a noisemaker. You swing it in the air.

Other random noisy devices seen above include a cow bell and a maraca in one of the baskets. I didn’t really have an appropriate storage location for noisemakers, so I’m appropriating one of the under-bed storage boxes I bought yesterday for miscellaneous items.

I’m glad I bought two shorter under-bed boxes, rather than one long one. Now I don’t have to hold off dealing with clothes storage until I run back to Target for more boxes!

The baskets held a lot of paperwork that needed sorting. I’m terrible with that — car loan statements, medical statements, etc.

My office filing cabinet is overstuffed so until I do some shredding, I bought a 13-pocket file folder for temporary filing. I’ve still got a bit more organizing to do, but it’s looking much better.

(By the way, the solid panel on the left slides over, there are shelves on that side too. However, I actually already had cleaned out the left side before NaBloCleanMo!)

Now, I really should be getting to bed. I’ve got a run early in the morning! I’m a mentor with our running club’s 10K training class, and we’re doing a trial run of the graduation race.

I’ve got a great support group that I’ve met through this class, and for them, I am thankful!

It’s time to clean up those sweaters!

Remember my closet?

Until now, only the shoe situation had been fixed. The hanging storage needs at least a full day’s attention, so today I decided to clean up the shelves.

Like my dressers, I tend to shove things on these shelves that don’t have a better place to be. That’s how we got here:

The bottom shelf above the boots is just fleece tops and sweatshirts, but sometimes the cats pull things out! Sure, it’s funny and we laugh when we come home to sweatshirts dragged into the living room … but it’s probably better if my clothes stay where they belong!

I decided to remedy the situation by picking up a few storage boxes and placing them on that bottom shelf. One box for purses (I don’t have that many, but I can never find them. There were four under those sweaters!), another for hats, gloves and random items that were in there.

There were some things that just didn’t belong there (like pants), and a few sweaters that I added to the Goodwill pile. Everything else was neatly placed back inside:

Ah. Much better, and there’s room for more sweaters! Though, I’m sure it won’t stay color-coded for long!

For day eight (that’s all?), I’m thankful that I have a good job at a great company. Even though I’ve had some frustrating issues this week, ultimately I’m happy to be there!

I barely had time to squeeze in my NaBloCleanMo!

I took a really small job — that leftover messy basket on top of the main dresser.

It doesn’t look too different, but I threw out a lot of junk. Really. I also found a long-lost pair of earrings!

I’m just thankful that today is over!
I had a tough project due today at work, and then got stuck in traffic due to a bad accident closing most of the highway. What usually takes 30-35 minutes took 80, so I had to rush to eat dinner, and got to rehearsal 20 minutes late. Ugh!

As you can tell, nothing has changed!

It was simple to fix this problem. It was just a matter of putting things away. I’m just lazy and far too often just leave them here instead.

It didn’t take long to get to the bottom of the pile. There is still a stack of shorts and capri pants that need to go into storage, but I need to buy another under-bed box … my summer shoes took over the one I used to use to swap out my pants!

Actually, we could always see the clock from the bed, even with all my clothes towering above it.

So tomorrow or later this week when I buy a new storage box, the last of the pile will be gone. Joey the cat, however, comes and goes as he pleases!

Yesterday, I was thankful for the rehearsal-free evening. True, I had more time to clean. But today, I realized I actually missed singing and seeing my friends from the chorale! Even after that long, long week of rehearsals and concerts …

I am thankful that I belong to such a great community choir, and for the friends I have made there.