An Official Break

This month is about getting organized. The other night I spent hours organizing my kitchen. It's clean, neat & tidy now. My friend is coming to visit the first week of September. We're going to the wedding of another college friend, but it also happens to be the same weekend as my 30th birthday. I'm using her trip here as my motivation to finish getting organized here. I still need to:

• Clean the den
• Move Alexa's crib out of the den into Ava's room
• Move the futon out of Ava's room into the den
• Clean out the computer armoire that is in the living room being used for storage
• Move the crappy old computer desk out of the den
• Move the computer armoire up to the den
• Organize the dining room

I have three weekends left to accomplish these tasks, but unfortunately every weekend from now until then is booked with activities. I'm really hoping I can get it done.

In order to focus, I'm taking an official break from blogging. Everyone who reads this is on my facebook anyhow. Hopefully I'll pick up blogging again after my big 3-0 celebration (Sept 4th)! In the meantime, enjoy a few pictures...

A Visit from my Sister

Grumpy Ava

At Train Town

Confessions

I've been sick this week. Horrible summer cold, which leaves me feeling sad & depressed. As a result, I thought today would be a good day to "confess" a few things since I don't really write much anymore.

• I just finished up my work for the day but I probably should take the last half hour to do some filing or organizing here at the office. Alexa is finally sleeping though, so I hate to wake her up by moving around the office.
• I haven't filed at home since last July. That's an entire year of filing sitting there waiting to be put away. It's now become a huge project that I don't have time for.
• My 30th birthday is coming up in less than a month. A good friend from college is getting married the same weekend so I have a lot of college friends in town that weekend. I should be very excited, but all I can think about is how I don't have a babysitter yet for either my birthday or the wedding.
• I don't actually have any babysitters, which is very, very sad.
• One of my best friend's is coming to stay with us for a few days before she heads into the city for a few days for the wedding. I should also be excited about that, but I'm just upset & worried that she's going to be disappointed that she chose to stay with us since my house is always a mess & all of the rooms are in desperate need of paint & so much more.
• I'm very, very embarrassed by my home. It's a fixer upper that we can't fix up because it's worth half of what we owe. Since it can't be fixed, we've never really been able to decorate. Ava's room is the only room I think looks nice & it's not even finished.
• I've been taking a bit of a break from my mom's group because I just feel so overwhelmed with life in general that I don't feel good about playing.
• Work has been super easy lately & I still haven't been happy about going into the office.
• I have at least 4 major projects around the house that I want to finish before my friend comes to visit next month & if I don't get them done, I will be beyond embarrassed to have her see my house.
• I am so jealous of all of my friends & family who get to decorate their homes & actually look forward to going home each night. I'm happy for them, but it honestly makes me want to cry whenever I think about how I just don't have that.
• I love my husband & we've been through A LOT together the past three years, but I am so annoyed & frustrated by his "get rich quick" schemes & his constant clutter.

Whew. I feel better now. It sure does feel good to get it all out.