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Art Studio Drama

In my last post, which was supposed to be published last week and instead was published yesterday, I wrote that I was going to do some maintenance organizing on my art studio.  Since I did a major re-org last Spring, I thought it would be pretty easy — just put stuff away, do some cleaning, [...]

Still here, still crazy … and cleaning my studio

I haven’t been blogging much lately.  My offline life has been pretty hectic, as I mentioned in last week.  But I got through a great big deadline yesterday, so I hope to get back to blogging, organizing, and blogging about organizing.

The deadline in question was the final critique for my art class, a self-directed painting [...]

Organizing An Entryway, Step 3: Sorting

This is the third post in my Organizing an Entryway series. I’m breaking it down into steps that are as small as possible to prevent ADD overwhelm.

Now that I can actually walk in my entryway, I’m ready for the third step of the process (and the first step of the SPACE process): sorting.

Sorting actually [...]

Organizing an Entryway, Step 2: The Pre-Sort

This is the second post in my Organizing an Entryway series. I’m breaking it down into steps that are as small as possible to prevent ADD overwhelm.

The second step in my organizing process is a quick pre-sort.  This is a quick way to get rid of two categories of stuff: things that don’t belong [...]

Organizing My Entryway, Part 1: Taking Stock of the Situation

I stared work on my entryway today.  I’ll be posting a series of entries on how I’m going about it, step by step, so you can see how a Real Live Person with ADD starts and finishes an organizing project.

I basically use Julie Morgenstern’s five-step SPACE system (“SPACE” stands for Sort, Purge, Assign a home, [...]

Hyperfocus. What a time waster.

So, I’m doing this art project that required me to buy a certain number of items.  I go to Home Despot, I buy the items I need, I carefully put them in the shopping bag.  The self-checkout device has a meltdown over something, as it inevitably does.  While I’m offering it kleenex and saying “there, [...]

Creating a chore schedule

Last week I wrote about making up a gmail calendar schedule, but as you’ve probably already learned, it isn’t enough to just get yourself a gmail account and open up the calendar feature.  You have to create a schedule, and then you have to notate it in a way that makes sense to you.

For example, [...]

Today I Cleaned My Kitchen

Well, part of it anyway. But I cleaned that part of it really well.

I’ve been bitching a lot this week about feeling all tired and hibernatey. Low energy, low motivation, blah blah blah. Today I had to get it together because my partner’s coming back from a business trip, and I know [...]