Lost and Found

I have spent much of my life living in a constant state of clutter. Don't get me wrong, I knew where things were in which pile, on which flat surface, and I knew where the most likely places were that I had put that certain something. I just had to spend a certain amount of time looking. As a result, I am very used to losing/misplacing things and then finding them eventually because as everyone knows, clutter kind of rotates through in a kind of slow cyclical pattern.... Its great cause I never freak out when I can't find something. I either keep looking or wait for it to turn up. For example, I currently have no idea where my drivers license is. Am I worried? Not really.

As I have gotten older and have a lot less space to live in, it has become important to me to keep my living areas less cluttered because being clutter free makes a room feel more spacious. I now truly appreciate being able to see my floor, and the surfaces of my desk, dresser, and other flat surfaces normally covered in stacks of books and papers and piles of clothes. I have become more organized. I am a master at packing my room like a ship. For example, I have four large plastic tubs under my raised bed, and smaller plastic tubs stacked in the closet. And after losing important papers such as my passport and social security card several times, I am finally using a file folder for important documents. I have gotten to the point where I actually put things away.

But the kicker is that amazingly, I still manage to lose things on regular basis! For example, I "lost" a pair of pants I had recently purchased and spent twenty minutes looking everywhere in my apartment, never imagining that the pants would be hanging neatly in the closet exactly where they were supposed to be. Also, I had been missing my patriarchal blessing since I moved two months ago until this past weekend. Who would have thought that it would be where it was supposed to be, clearly visible in my file folder? I had looked everywhere!

It just amazes me that leading a more "organized" and less cluttered life has proved to be ironically inefficient. I still spend a lot of time looking for things. I guess I might adjust eventually to organized life, but in the meantime, I am officially surrendering to the fact that I am probably going to spend at least 1/30th of my life searching for things that may, or may not be actually missing.

I like the weekends

This week I took three tests, gave a presentation, and turned in an 8 page paper and completed two more rounds of the business simulation (my group is still kicking trash btw)! I am pretty proud of myself because I have been studying so much harder lately, and I did much better on these mid-terms than on the last ones! Yay me!

So....today is Saturday. And I have no definite plans, nothing pressing. And no school work that absolutely has to be done, and believe me, it has been a long time since that has happened, even on a Saturday. So I am going to the gym, going shopping, cleaning, and painting my toenails. And I will probably watch some T.V. and of course party tonight :) I am so excited!!

My new extra-curricular activity

Dear readers,

Its not officially official yet, but.... I am the new Purser for the BYU Sailing Club! I am not sure that I am officially in the BYU sailing club - I think my enrollment in the class automatically put me in it, but... Anyway! I think that it will be a good opportunity and a good thing to put on my resume! I am quite excited. Also there is going to be a formal event on Friday when I get inducted in :) I love dressing up!