Nowhere to go but forward!

I'm a terrible blogger. Honestly, I'm terrible at anything that takes a daily commitment with the exception of marriage and pets. Since I'm so awful at this, my house is a jumbled mess, my weight is out of control and I constantly forget things I'm supposed to do.

This year I decided to do the New Years resolution thing. Again. All my other resolutions have failed. But I'm determined to make a change at 41 years old. I know there are things I have succeeded at. I've quit smoking for over 15 years now. I've quit drinking and drugs too. I've lost track of the time frame for those but it's been years. Many years. I even lost seventy some pounds a couple of years ago on Weight Watchers. I was only about 35lbs shy of my goal when I just stopped. And most of the weight crept right back on. The only habits I seem to have are bad ones.

But I'm determined to change all that. I'm armed with countless organization books. I have a couple of notebooks set aside for ideas. I rejoined Weight Watchers. I'm starting off slow. I've been writing down all the things I need to do in a day to keep things running smoothly around here. Then I have another list of weekly chores, and monthly, yearly... you get the idea. I'm trying to organize them into a schedule.

To some people this might seem mind numbingly simple. For me it's a big struggle. I've never been an organized person. I wasn't raised that way. I was never given chores. In fact, I don't think anyone ever checked to see if my homework was done. I just kind of breezed through school with a B or two and mostly C's and D's. I had no accountability. Even my teachers passed me because I was nice and very polite and likable.

So now I feel like I'm having to act like my own parent. I have to make myself do things that most people have had to do their whole lives. At 41. It's embarrassing and a lil funny but also kinda sad. I'm going to keep track here, so I can look back and see progress. I mean, I should look around my home and see it but it will be nice to be able to put it down here.

The one big job looming over my head is our spare room. It's FULL of boxes we never unpacked and anything else you might accumulate in 6 years and then decide you don't have room for. A whole room. Full of stuff. Due to my bad lower back, I have been ignoring it. But I'm going to do it by quadrant and my husband is going to help.

Things I've done so far:
I cleaned out under our bed. Oh my god. What a mess. Books, pens, lost socks, jewelry that fell off the headboard. (disorganized girls just toss earrings anywhere when they take them off at night), a bad carpet beetle infestation. 1,000,000 old tissues, also from the headboard.
I made a WW menu for a day and I'm going to repeat it daily.
I bought an earring caddy (for said earrings) and a jewelry box. No more lost jewelry under the bed.
I got bags to store under the bed and put my sheets and quilts in it.
I straightened up my craft room. This is part of a larger project there. I want to streamline this room which is PILED with stuff I don't do.
I made my list of things that have to be done to keep things clean and organized. First I have a lot of mess to sort out so that happens first. With the exception of that spare room. That will be my last project.