Today I’m grateful to be headed to bed with a huge mess in my house.

11.7.2024

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I’ve been thinking about tackling a fairly sizable reorganization project in my house for several months. Essentially, I want to move everything from the guest room closet to the hallway closet and everything from the hallway closet to my office closet and everything from my office closet to either the shelves in my office, to the guest room closet, or to the garage. This also means I need to rearrange my office, assemble some furniture, and eliminate some treasures (and by treasures, I mean junk I haven’t used in years) from my garage.

I can’t wait to have it done! But I have also been incredibly hesitant to start. It’s kind of a big project and I knew that starting it meant that multiple rooms of my house would be in disarray. I need to go through stuff as I move it, as these closets are way overdue for a good sorting/purging. It's a tad overwhelming. And therefore this project has remained in the idea stage for quite some time.

Until today. This afternoon I started. I didn’t attack it strategically or with any specific flow in mind. Nope. I just went for it.

So, the current state of my house is a disaster. I have linens laying all over my guest bed. I have extra shampoo and toothpaste and toilet paper and such stacked in random places. I have boxes of candles in the hallway, board games piled in the middle of my bedroom, office supplies everywhere, and two laundry baskets sitting on my dining room table filled with papers that I need to file, shred, or throw away.

And I’m going to bed. There is another version of Karen (a much younger version) who might have stayed up all night trying to finish this. But not this version of me. I’m headed to bed content that I finally started. I know the chaos in my house will bug me enough that I will finish this in the next few days. And the mess in the meantime just means that this ‘maybe someday’ project is now in process. It’s gonna get done. And for that, I am thankful!