What began as an attempt to move my router and modem from their precarious positions on top of my (top-opening) deep freezer, turned into a complete reorganizing of all the closet space on the bedroom level of my house over the weekend. This means I had to pull everything out to see what I was dealing with, decide how to sort it all, and buy shelving units and storage bins to store them.
It was a race to get everything packed away (or thrown out) and off the floors of the bedrooms and hallways before the weekend was over so I wouldn’t have to sleep surrounded by the mess. I disturbed many a spider’s home this weekend, and in doing so, had to kill the spiders as well.
But it didn’t stop there, oh no. At 10:30 last night, with my bedtime closely approaching — and my eyes drying out from the exhaustion — I got my ironing done, and my latest batch of music added to my iPod.
It seems like it’s another weekend gone, chipping my nails, damaging my fingers. Non-stop, save a phone call with John.
The last few weekends was literally spent in bed with my muse, so I guess I was just making up for productive time that I haven’t had in a while.
Bronwen and I agreed to try to see each other at least once a month. Which doesn’t seem like a lot at only 12 times a year, but I think of the last time I saw Pat or Aaron, and it was on New Years.
I’m also trying to make documentary nights and Sunday brunches a regular thing. The frequency of regular remains to be seen.
It seems like even my relaxing time needs to be planned and scheduled. I’m taking a break from God of War 2 to play Black and White 2, which I never finished. My next booking with Dan is over a month from now, but I just received notification that it has to moved back to accommodate for other venture.
I’m still going with projects, starting new ones before the old ones are finished. I’ve decided that I can’t stop the creative process, and that forcing myself to stick with one until completion makes it a chore. I like to have my fingers in several pies at once, so that I can take a break from one but still be productive by moving to another.
It seems like the busyness never ends. Is this what being an adult is like?

Yes, pretty much, it is. Just wait, if there comes a day in which you decide to have kids, then you A) redouble your insanity or B) learn to live with a lot less precision and detail. But you learn to get things done, or not sweat the small stuff. You didn’t HAVE to buy ironable clothes, for instance.
We’ve learned to do everything together, which helps. We blow off cleaning for a while together, and then attack together. I’ve even hired a professional organizer once, which was the best 300 bucks I’ve ever spent on this place. So if it gets to be too much, you’ve a third solution.
People with kids have told me the exact same thing; it’s like having kids is the least selfish thing one can do. Especially if it was someone like me, who lives on precision and detail.
I’d love to hire a professional cleaner (not an organizer, cause I like doing that stuff) just to clean the floorboards and the walls. I’m okay with doing everything else.
Coordination problems —
It depends on a person’s mood, I should think.
I always find everything more doable when I am in a good mood. But I swing from being impeccably neat to curiously messy. If only there was a way to stay in the middle.
Moods certainly play a big part in getting things done. I prefer the extremes of neat and messy actually, because both of them remain important in their own way. Being able to put things in a pile without worrying about tidying until it overflows, then going crazy and cleaning it all is satisfying, almost orgasmic.