Organization Porn

ome things are currently making me happy and they are my Billie Holiday Pandora station and this website:

Things Organized Neatly.



Its basically a collection of pictures of organized things. I dont know why, but this website just feels really good to look at. Perhaps its because I really crave organization on this meticulous of a level, but cant ever bring myself to maintain that level of organization in my life (likely, because it would take every second of "free" time I have, and I like to spend that time doing other things).

If I ever won the lottery, I would totally hire a professional organizer to organize my entire life this way, and to help me maintain it. I was showing this website to a co-worker and he was really disturbed by some of the images, while I was fascinated and super excited about them. He looked at me in a kind-of horrified way and said "I think thats a disease..." Ha! Im too lazy to have OCD.

Anyway, these are the things that make me happy. I was really enjoying my picture a day idea, too, but Im so bad at stopping to take a picture of interesting moments in my day. Im still working on it. I find that the most interesting days are the days I dont post a picture. I think if I had a better camera than the one on my stupid Blackberry, it would be helpful. Its just too convenient to be able to take the picture and load it directly to Facebook with the same device. Modern problems!

Oh hey

ere's a funny thing: I have several blog posts half-written and havent finished or posted any of them!

Bringing everything up to speed is out of the cards at this point so lets gloss over the details and do a Cliffs Notes version:

Still working for small, family-owned company. There is much to say about this later.

Gearing up for school: Im currently registered for 11 credits for Fall Term: Chemistry 104, Plane Surveying and Fluid Mechanics. Im ONE credit shy of being considered a full time student and that is fucking LAME. Admittedly, I dont exactly know how being one credit shy of full time will affect my financial aid, but Im pretty sure it will in a way that is decidedly negative.

Seamus and I just celebrated 2 years of togetherness. Ive been largely absent from this blog for the majority of our relationship, so it may seem like that came out of nowhere - and even being fully present in the relationship, it feels like a super quick 2 years - but all is well. Obviously, things are never perfect or completely easy, but all is well.

Neck things seem to be in the past. Surgery went well, and although my scar is bigger and darker than I would like it to be (I was a bad girl and didnt always protect it from the sun this summer), Im healed and healthy.

In an unbelievably frustrating turn of events, my anxiety is making an unwanted comeback in my life. I want to chalk it up to having a lot going on, and I hope that once I get things rolling and into a groove, I will calm the fuck down. For now, Ive been coping in a way that I know is horrible - by drinking to numb the nerves. Well, maybe part of me is drinking to numb the anxiety and part of me is stressed the hell out and just needs a drink. Either way, an overwhelming majority of me wants to be drinking lately and its not good. Seamus has taken to calling me Murtaugh because I am constantly telling him "Im getting too old for this shit."

Lots and lots of other things are on my mind. Who knows if I will have time to post them here when school starts - between going to class, working 32 hours per week, taking an online class, homework and studying, who knows if I will have time for anything ever again!

We shall see!

Photos are more fun than words.

've written two posts lately and didnt have time to finish them. I went back to them today and am not particularly impressed with either. Such is life, I suppose. I bore the crap outta myself sometimes with this blog.

I watched The Social Network the other night. It was entertaining, but I really despise that Jesse Eisenberg guy. I saw an interview he did on one of those late night talk shows and I thought he was a douche. Most of what he talked about was how he's been a nerd his whole life and because of that he's bitter and victimized, and even now that he is a famous actor he still gets treated like the nerd in the room and boo hoo. I think the line in the movie where Zukerbergs girlfriend tells him that girls dont like him not because he's a nerd, its because hes an asshole was actually written for Jesse Eisenberg. That and I dont think it takes an especially gifted actor to play the same charecter over and over again. At least Michael Cera is a likeable guy.

So my friend Chrissy has started doing this thing where she takes and posts to the internet one photo per day. Right now I am liking this idea much more than traditional blogging. Her photo blog is so interesting and full of beautiful pictures, it inspired me to try to do something similar. I was worried that mine would be boring and full of pictures of the same things, so this has challenged me to look for interesting things to capture each day. Chrissy is a bartender and is also in a band so she sees interesting things regularly. I have to hunt them. But I like that.