Simple Sunday...and getting organized.

Sunday morning-6:25 a.m.  Having a cup of coffee and looking around my little house, and thinking how lucky I really am.  The coffee is really good, and I love these moments when I get up early and I'm all alone in the house (not really alone in the house, but I'm the only one up!), and I get to putter around and think about things.  Even the dogs and chickens aren't up yet.  

I've always wanted to be an organized person, and while I am very organized in some ways, there are some that I'm afraid will always elude me.  Add to that, I am a study in contradictions...

1. Time management is a problem for me but I work well under pressure.  I have to have "percolating" time to think about something before I get it done, which looks like procrastination, but it isn't.  
2. I make endless lists of things I need to get done and promptly lose them or leave them somewhere where they won't help me at all.  
3. In spite of having a LOT of food in the cabinets and fridge, I never have any idea of what we actually HAVE. This means every time I cook or bake, I have to actually go look through the cabinets to see if we have what I need.

So I've decided to get a little more organized.  I resist using a planner, in spite of the fact that it has worked for me before.  I am taking on more and more projects with work, presentations that I'm doing at conferences, personal stuff that I plan, and a couple of new ideas for projects that are percolating around in my mind (refer to #1, above) that are going to require some keeping up with.  I got a pretty planner, and I'm all over it.  

Later today I'm having lunch and a pedicure with a friend.  SO looking forward to that.  

We are hosting Thanksgiving this year, and we are pretty much ready for that.  I'm thawing the turkeys, the Cranberry-Orange relish is made (it needs time for the flavors to mingle), everything is bought and ready to go, and the house is decorated.  The yard looks good and everybody will meet the chickens--it'll be fun.